Monkey

Light-up shoes - version 1

It seems that I'm not very good at blogging in October.

Anyway, there's some new things in my shop and James and I have been working on a project: shoes that light up when you walk. I have an old pair of shoes with pockets on the sides and we've started by putting circuits inside these pockets to see how much space an LED, a battery and a switch takes up. Not very much as it turns out.


The hall floor is filthy, isn't it? The stains are motorcycle oil. Nothing will remove them.

Armour

This is something of a counterpart to my last post where I was applying a textile technique - knitting - to metal. Today I've taken a construction method normally used on metal and applied it to textiles. The end result is armour made out of felt.

Non-traditional knitting

Last year I did some knitting with unusual materials for my constructed textiles piece, Stem. Recently I've been experimenting again with some non-standard yarns.