I got some good results from Trove by searching for the family name and the name of the town they came from eg. Wigley Charters Towers. I found these four photos of Frederick Arthur Wigley during his WW2 service. They are in the public domain now so they can be freely published.
This is my final project for my Cert III in Textile Arts. I’ve been working on it most of the year. Today I’ll be putting it in our college exhibition of students’ work. I’ve loved doing it. The hardest thing was putting it all together. Making the individual parts was much easier.
This was our yarn bombing at Marden Senior College today. Thanks to everyone who helped out, it went off extremely well!!!
I’ve uploaded the rest of the photos to my Facebook photo album.
Never having done things conventionally I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m a craft hacker! I’ve nearly finished Cert III in Textile Arts and often hear from my lecturers
-trust you to do something ‘different’
-you pick difficult things to do, don’t you
I can’t help but laugh. I hate labels and putting people in boxes but I’m feeling good about this little bit of a definition of a little bit of me.
A hacker takes something created for one purpose and changes it, or hacks it, for another purpose. As a craft hacker I take a traditional craft and use it for a different purpose or in a different way. My major project for this year is ‘interpreting the inside of a computer in crochet’. The vast bulk of my materials are recycled or left overs people have given me from their projects.
There are times when I have so many ideas that I feel overwhelmed and don’t know what to do. Sometimes I write them down, then I lose the list….
Some of the recent stuff I’ve done for my course:
Went to a Ninja Knit-in a couple of weeks ago. After we’d knitted or crocheted for a couple of hours then we went out and tagged poles etc. This is my piece.
I have a big yarn bombing project coming up in November so stay tuned for pictures and results!!!