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...

studio
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

I let the moustache do the talking

I designed myself a new t-shirt recently with one of my fave catchphrases on it and ordered it from cafepress. It came yesterday and I'm sooooo pleased with it!
If you'd like to share the moustache fun times you can get yourself one from cafepress.com
Do you let the moustache do the talking?

Spring has sprung

It might still be really cold out and a few weeks until the official start of spring but the sun is out and I'm ready for springtime fun times! So is my new friend Benoit, we had a little photo shoot in the garden today. He had to wear his 'bee-ret' (hahaha) to keep warm though. More photos here.

A bit more web design...

Well this plan is lasting longer than expected...
I've just finished a website for The Society for Curious Thought. It's a really interesting site showcasing essays on a variety of subjects from politics to arts to being human. Have a look around here www.thesocietyforcuriousthought.com

When I grow up I want to be...

...a web designer! Well for this week at least.
I've built a website for my friend Isabel Vince. She knits and sews, and is an artist and designer.
We made a fun little animation for the front page and there's lots of lovely pictures to see. Have a look around!

www.isabelvince.com

Exciting new animation site – 4mations

4mations opened it's doors today. It's a site from Channel 4 and Aardman featuring some top quality new and old animations. It's definitely worth having a nose around. I've put a couple of mine up there and hopefully will be adding some new knitimations at some point...

http://www.4mations.tv/maxsworld

Knitted Guys in Greenwich

Say hello to Undercover Tony. He's part of an exhibition of my knitted characters that has opened today at Greenwich Picturehouse. They'll be there until the 31st August so go and have a look if you get the chance. If you can't get to laugh at their silly faces in real life then you can look at their pictures here.

Trouble Bros.

Here's a couple of crims up to no good on da streetz...
They're going to be on display with some more of my new characters in the bar at Greenwich Picturehouse throughout the whole of August.

Je suis Bob l'eponge

I find it's always helpful to have a stupid phrase when travelling to non-English speaking countries. And I've discovered that 'I am Spongebob Squarepants' seems to be universally amusing so I'm making it my mission to learn it in as many languages as possible. So far I have:

French - Je suis Bob l'eponge
German - Ich bin Spongebob Schwammkopf
Spanish - Soy Bob Esponja
Korean - Na nun Sponge man
Japanese – watashiwa suponnji bobu desu (Thanks Erin)
Estonian – Mina olen Käsna-Kalle (Thanks Ing)

Can anyone help me learn some more?!
Let me know in the comments below and I'll add them to the list. We can build up a hugely useful resource for travellers.

By the way, you can't just use an internet translation tool as Spongebob has many different pseudonyms and I'm looking for what he's called on the telly box in your chosen country.

Double Trouble!

I'm just back from Bristol where Screentest: The National Student Film Festival was held this weekend.
It was a great event and 'I am Ahab' picked up 2 awards! One for Best Animation and the other for Best Music Video. That's 2 years in a row that my knitimations have won best animation. whoop whoop. I guess knitting really is taking over the world. mwah hahaha. If you haven't seen Ahab in action yet then you can watch it here.

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Better late than never...

Here's the show reel that I put together at the end of the 3 month animation course in Bristol in December. It was a fantastic course and I learnt plenty of animation skills which I'll be putting to good use in my next knitimation!



And here's some of the other students work that are on youtube. Lots of variety!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=biuJotTBo9Y


http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=X3xiWIfPmAs


http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ_fRRDxWh8