What goes around comes around.
Whimsical drawings, journeys through time through the eyes of crafters, the hidden fascination in the everyday, daily practices, comfort food...
Welcome! In this week’s issue…
Modernist makers: past to present, whimsical illustrations inspired by travel, the secrets ships hold, hidden wonderous sculptures, television translators, and…
The power of doing something each day, playful collage from the scraps of the everyday, and algae in all their awe-inspiring beauty.
What goes around comes around, the largest, most faithful model you’ve ever seen, a dress made from tea towels, and calling all cookbook lovers.
A delightful yet uncompromising comfort food, books for pickles, or pickles and books, and tell the time through quotes.
And, happy Sunday!
My kids and I visited a local rose garden recently, and I loved walking through and smelling them all! Did you know there are over 30,000 kinds of roses?
Isn’t that extraordinary! I don’t think this garden had them all 😉, but they certainly had many beautiful colors and sizes.
And as we’ve been walking in the early evenings as the days get shorter, we’ve been having some beautiful sunsets! So I just had to share them with you.
Before we begin, here are last week’s top recommendations.
People with multiple creative practices always amaze me, like Maggie Grey.
Martin Philip’s Mama’s Bread receive looks simple yet wonderful.
Austin Kleon shares how his blackout poem came to be in this post.
Here are my posts from the past week.
What To Knit Next: Delicate & dainty, colorful & cozy.
Yarnsiders’ Pet Of The Week: June's Feline Friends.
What To Crochet Next: A colorful world is just a stitch away.
Fiber Friday: Swatching, switching, stitching.
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Now for this week’s recommendations…
Modernist makers: past to present.
Jade French, Lottie Whalen, and Suzanna Petot are art curators and researchers who run Decorating Dissidence. As they write:
“We run Decorating Dissidence – a platform that explores the aesthetic, conceptual and political qualities of craft, decorative art and design.”
As part of their project, they’ve conducted interviews in their blog, run a limited series podcast, and run plenty of exhibitions and Symposiums.
In their Substack newsletter of the same name, they share profiles of makers, a roundup of craft-and-art news, plus thoughtful essays.
Whimsical illustrations inspired by travel.
France is such a beautiful country (which I dream of visiting), so it makes sense it’s inspired countless artists and writers over the years.
One such creative person is the French illustrator, Julie Guillem, who’s based in Paris. Her illustrations remind me of the beauty of retro travel posters.
The secrets ships hold.
Container ships are an essential part of our modern world.
If you’ve wandered a port city, you may have noticed the mysterious-looking letters, numbers and symbols on the side of their hull.
Well, wonder no more with this essay! Learn something surprising and intriguing that’s usually hidden in plain sight.
Hidden wonderous little sculptures.
If you happen to live in Cambridge, or visiting, might I suggest… an unconventional tour? Dinky Doors is a fun, cheeky organization who’s made:
“Miniature sculptures (with doors), lovingly made and hidden just out of plain sight in the beautiful city of Cambridge.”
I love how playful they are and how they reference different parts of English culture. If you can’t visit in person, have a look at their online gallery.
(Thanks to
for mentioning this one!)Television translators.
These people are an essential part of our enjoyment of cinema and tv shows from all around the world.
But, as David Buchanan writes, you’re supposed to forget they exist.
“I’m an audiovisual translator, which means that I—and others like me—help you understand the languages spoken on screen: You just click that little speech bubble icon in the bottom-right corner of your preferred streaming service, select the subtitles or the dub, and away you go. These scripts are all written by someone like myself, sitting quietly at a computer and spending day after day trying to figure out, “What are they actually saying here?”
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