On the last Friday of every month, Biddeford hosts an event called Artwalk from 5 - 8pm. This event features art displays and presentations at various locations throughout Main street and in the Mills.
The Heart of Biddeford Office at 205 Main Street will be the venue for Reef liaison Ann Thompson will give an informational presentation about the Maine Reef Project. Additionally, anyone can come to learn how to crochet as well as create a piece for the reef. There will be a small display of completed works to see and pattern flyers will be available that folks can take home.
Heart of Biddeford is also hosting a mini fiber workshop and our own Julie Yarborough will be teaching a basic felt class where anyone can learn how to felt a ball for a small fee.
The Biddeford community is great about supporting the Arts and cultural interests. In this tough economy it's a pleasure to see a free cultural event that helps support the locals and can expose especially children to the local art community. I hope some of you can make it over there next Friday night and participate in this art opportunity. The Main Street area in Biddeford has some surprisingly good restaurants as well so why not make it a night out!
For more information about the event, please visit the Upcoming Biddeford Artwalk website.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Crochet Clouds - Another Blending of Science, Math and Ecolgy
Imagine the idea of creating mathematically correct crocheted clouds (fractiles) that could hang in arid climates and collect moisture from fog in the air as a source of fresh water!
Read more about Argentinean architect Ciro Najle's cummulus clouds at:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2012/01/touching-the-crocheted-clouds.html
Check it out!
Read more about Argentinean architect Ciro Najle's cummulus clouds at:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2012/01/touching-the-crocheted-clouds.html
Check it out!
Friday, January 6, 2012
Reef Contributions Deadline September 1, 2012
Happy New Year to all of you out there!
Hopefully now that the holidays have passed, we can all spend a bit more time focusing on ramping up our reef creations!
I got an email from a woman who picked up a flyer at Fryeburg Fair and wanted to know if it was too late to send pieces in. NO, it's Absolutely not too late! We will be accepting pieces at least until September 1st. So all of you out there that were busy creating for charities and church fairs can now breathe and take an hour or two to create a little creature for the reef project. OR become obsessed as I have and create your own little atoll as Jan Winsor from Gorham, Maine is doing.
Here are a few pictures of her first free form attempt. Great job Jan! Best of all she says she had a lot of fun creating it! Jan has been a fiber artist for some time but just began crocheting at the end of last summer. It's easy! You just have to not worry about being perfect or making mistakes.
Until next time..... Keep creating :-)Friday, December 23, 2011
Christmas Tree Worm - Crochet for the Maine Reef Project
Wishing everyone Happy Holidays .....
I thought this entry was fitting for the season! I never knew such a creature, the Christmas Tree Worm, existed until I began searching for inspirational photos to get the crochet juices flowing. Their beauty including their many brilliant colors, is astounding!
These photos are samples of many amazing Christmas Tree Worm images found on Google Images. These are a few that inspired my piece.
This one is from the http://frogfishdive.com/index.html
A description from the MARINEBIO website says this about them........
I thought this entry was fitting for the season! I never knew such a creature, the Christmas Tree Worm, existed until I began searching for inspirational photos to get the crochet juices flowing. Their beauty including their many brilliant colors, is astounding!
These photos are samples of many amazing Christmas Tree Worm images found on Google Images. These are a few that inspired my piece.
This one is from the http://frogfishdive.com/index.html
This one is from http://morealtitude.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/biodiversity/
A description from the MARINEBIO website says this about them........
"Christmas tree worms, Spirobranchus giganteus, are Christmas 
tree-shaped serpulid tube-dwelling worms with magnificent twin spirals of plumes used for feeding and respiration. These cone-shaped worms are one of the most widely recognized sedentary polychaete worms . They come in many colors including orange, yellow, blue, and white and, though they are small with an average 3.8 cm in span, they are easily spotted due to their shape, beauty, and color. The colorful plumes, or tentacles, are used for passive feeding on suspended food particles and plankton in the water. The plumes are also used for respiration. Though the plumes are visible, most of these worms is anchored in their burrows that they bore into live calcareous coral. Christmas tree worms are very sensitive to disturbances and will rapidly retract into their burrows at the slightest touch or passing shadow. They typically re-emerge a minute later, very slowly, to test the water before fully extending their plumes."
tree-shaped serpulid tube-dwelling worms with magnificent twin spirals of plumes used for feeding and respiration. These cone-shaped worms are one of the most widely recognized sedentary polychaete worms . They come in many colors including orange, yellow, blue, and white and, though they are small with an average 3.8 cm in span, they are easily spotted due to their shape, beauty, and color. The colorful plumes, or tentacles, are used for passive feeding on suspended food particles and plankton in the water. The plumes are also used for respiration. Though the plumes are visible, most of these worms is anchored in their burrows that they bore into live calcareous coral. Christmas tree worms are very sensitive to disturbances and will rapidly retract into their burrows at the slightest touch or passing shadow. They typically re-emerge a minute later, very slowly, to test the water before fully extending their plumes."
Here is my version.......
Happy Holidays and a Very Happy New Year to you All!
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
South Portland Recreation Department Offering Beginner Crochet Classes
South Portland Recreation Department is offering beginner crochet classes and the Fiber Center's Jan Winsor from Four Winds Farm will be teaching it! Yeah Jan!
Jan is an accomplished Needle Felter and has been practicing Fiber Arts for a while now but when the Reef project came up, Jan was at the ready and took on crochet with a vengeance! Her creativity, real world teaching experience, and fun loving personality should make for a fun class!
The Beginner Crochet I class runs on Tuesdays, and begins January 17th for six weeks and goes from 6:30 - 8pm This is a great opportunity for anyone who wants to learn the basics of crochet. The first class project will be cotton dish cloths but once you learn the stitches, who knows what great things you can create? Something for the reef maybe??
A continuation of the class, Beginner Crochet II will begin on March 6th for six additional weeks and is also on Tuesdays from 6:30 - 8pm.
For more information or to register for the class, call the South Portland Parks and Recreation Department at 207-767-7650.
Until next time......
Jan is an accomplished Needle Felter and has been practicing Fiber Arts for a while now but when the Reef project came up, Jan was at the ready and took on crochet with a vengeance! Her creativity, real world teaching experience, and fun loving personality should make for a fun class!
The Beginner Crochet I class runs on Tuesdays, and begins January 17th for six weeks and goes from 6:30 - 8pm This is a great opportunity for anyone who wants to learn the basics of crochet. The first class project will be cotton dish cloths but once you learn the stitches, who knows what great things you can create? Something for the reef maybe??
A continuation of the class, Beginner Crochet II will begin on March 6th for six additional weeks and is also on Tuesdays from 6:30 - 8pm.
For more information or to register for the class, call the South Portland Parks and Recreation Department at 207-767-7650.
Until next time......
Sunday, December 11, 2011
New Pieces for the Maine Crochet Reef
Here is a new contribution from our Liaison, Ann Thompson. She is calling it "New Reefling".
Love it Ann and thank you for the contribution!
When Ann is not creating for the reef or teaching children metal art and other artistic things, she is diligently creating her Pewter work which you can see at Little River Metalworks and Bicycle Art Jewelry, for galleries and shows in the Southern Maine area.
On top of that, Ann is hard at work trying to find funding so that we can bring the reef into the schools and pay the required IFF fee. YUP, the school kiddies need to pay to play..... Any context of the reef project that is brought into the classroom falls under their intellectual property rights. See our FAQ page for info about "teacher kits".
Until next time........
Love it Ann and thank you for the contribution!
When Ann is not creating for the reef or teaching children metal art and other artistic things, she is diligently creating her Pewter work which you can see at Little River Metalworks and Bicycle Art Jewelry, for galleries and shows in the Southern Maine area.
On top of that, Ann is hard at work trying to find funding so that we can bring the reef into the schools and pay the required IFF fee. YUP, the school kiddies need to pay to play..... Any context of the reef project that is brought into the classroom falls under their intellectual property rights. See our FAQ page for info about "teacher kits".
Until next time........
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Crocheted Zoanthus for the Maine Crochet Coral Reef Project
Zoanthid is commonly known as green sea mat or button polyp.
I found this photo as my inspiration for creating a crocheted version. These are amazingly colorful creatures as can be seen here on google images. This is the photo on a website called http://www.rarezoanthids.com/ that inspired my work.
This is still a work in progress. I plan to make as many "polyps" as I have enough lime green yarn for and then will crochet the tubular base that they will sit on.
So much to do so little time!
AND loving every minute of it:-)
Until next time.......
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