Bortusk Leer

I went to this exhibition today after a phone call saying there's a giant blue knitted man in this gallery and you need to see it. It's really fun, there is indeed a knitted man and downstairs is an aladdin's cave of crazy creatures and spray paint. I think my favourite sprayed slogan had to be 'UV he he he'. It's at Tony's Gallery off Brick Lane until the 26th June. Go and see it if you can or there's lots of good flickr pictures here.

Art Smart

I'm going to be taking part in the University of the Arts London Art Smart Fair this July. I'll have my knitters jewellery there and I'll be bringing along some of my knitted characters. It's also an ideal opportunity to make some new work that I've been thinking about lately. The plan is that it will be tiny, knitted and horrible. Probably a series of curious little boxes and cauldrons filled with bizarre knitted things. I thought I'd share this photo of todays research materials... and I'm planning to post regular pictures of my creations!

Press

My Jewellery for Knitters has been getting a nice amount of press in the last few months, thanks to various lovely knitting magazines. You can see the whole lot in my new Press Section and I thought I'd share the most recent piece here. Yarn Forward Magazine said 'Why have diamonds when you can have yarn? Flaunt your love for knitting on nights out with these delightfully quirky baubles!'

Hooray for Knitting Jewellery!

New show in Greenwich

There's a new bunch of my hand knit characters on show in Greenwich Picturehouse. It's on display for the whole of August. If you're passing through Greenwich pop in and have a look. You can even catch a glimpse of Benoit the bee flying about in the bar.

BUST Craftacular

This weekend was the fantastic BUST Magazine summer craftacular. I had a stall there with Isabel Vince selling our wooly goods.

It was incredibly busy and lots of fun meeting other crafty folk. I even spotted a couple of my brooches out in the wild! There's a great review of it up on The Guardian.

I've put my photos of our stall up here. And Fabric Nation managed to take a lot more than me and you can see them here.

Gritting the Tunnel

Yesterday I went along to a graffiti knitting event organised by I Knit London. It was lots of fun! I did my first bit of yarnstorming, but it was a mere tag compared to Knit the City's epic spider web filled with captured creatures (photo above). There's more of my pics on flickr here. And there's some much better ones here from zefrog, I was caught pink-handed...!

Catch-a-Sheep

I'm currently working with Isabel on a crazy mechanical sheep project. It's going to be a fun game to play at the V&A museum's Village Fete. Come and see us and try and win some fantastic prizes!

Jewellery in the 'Real World'

If you're averse to online shopping then fret no more! My range of handmade jewellery for the fashionable knitter is now available in real bricks and mortar shops. If you're in London then you can now find them in I Knit London and All the Fun of the Fair. I'm pretty thrilled to have my products in these fabulous knitting shops alongside some fantastic yarns and other knitty goodness. Be sure to check them out if you're in the area.

You can see more details on my new stockists page.

My latest obsession...

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Originally uploaded by MaxsWorld

Making tiny balls of yarn and knitting needles has become seriously addictive. On the plus side I've sold a few, but on the down side it's nowhere near enough to justify spending every waking minute thinking about it...!

Anyway at least it's a lot of fun

If you'd like to fund this madness head over to one of my shops:
http://maxsworld.etsy.com
http://maxsworld.folksy.com

Having fun on Etsy

I joined etsy as a seller recently to show off my new knitting earrings but the best thing I've found is the community there. I've been having a lot of fun in the forums and found lots of people selling really awesome things! So I decided to put together a treasury showing off the great sellers who make miniature bits and pieces too. Have a closer look and check out the amazingly intricate work!

My 1st treasury