Created in Birmingham

Pete‘s made a video about the next Stitches and Hos.

Those crazy cats at Stitches and Hos:

On Friday night our knit graffiti faction struck at the heart of a Birmingham suburb.  We met after night fall and covered 48 safety bollards surrounding a roundabout in a rainbow of knitting.

There are photos of the dastardly deed here and a slideshow of photos from Sparks68 on Flickr.

I’ve not talked about the shop very much which seems a bit remiss of me. As well as lots of things to spend your money on we’ve been using the space for other things.

We had Flatpack in last week – they gave out brochures and also installed David Hurley‘s installation ‘A Thought. An Afterthought‘. This week International Dance Festival Birmingham are taking up residence to promote the impressive line-up they’ve assembled.

For Good Friday and Easter Saturday Sarah Loves… has arranged for Sam Pierpoint to take up residence in the shop window:

Sam takes a plain pair of shoes of your choice and transforms them into original works of art entirely unique to you. Transporting her studio to the window of the temporary Bullring shop she will be inviting people to engage with her process and inspire new designs

But c’mere, there’s more. The following weekend the shop will be hosting a knit-in by Stitches and Hos. Click the link for all the info. Here’s the eflyer thing for it:

Stitches & Hos, the little knitting hootenany organisers have got themselves a spangly new website. In case you’ve not come across them:

Stitches and Hos are a motley crew of enthusiasts for all things knitted, crocheted and stitched who run a monthly knitting night based at Hare and Hounds pub, Kings Heath, Birmingham

They’re there on the last Tuesday of every month, lost in a flurry of wool and needles. You don’t have to be a knitting wizz to go along, as I understand it, so don’t be put off going because you don’t know your [insert knitting jargon] from your [insert knitting jargon].

• First Light Movies: Win Hammer film posters here!
  First Light’s blog has got off to a good start and now they’ve got a competition going. Have a look at one of the films they’ve funded and, by commenting on it, you can win yourself a poster
• stereographic » Plus+ 2008 – call for help…
  Can anyone help Stereographic out? They need:
  (1) a mannequin – full sized / male or female. (If by any chance anyone has a reflective mannequin that would be a mega bonus!)
  (2) any ‘discarded design’ fellow designers / artists / companies have that they want to get rid of – things like demo prints / failed pitch designs / overruns on brochures etc
• WOW: Hello, my name is Sarah :)
  Sarah Carter is “a design student that loves branding and typography”. She’s been working on Baskerville: The Animated Movie and did some live drawing at Re-Sketch at The Rainbow. This is her blog
• Miss Halliwell make their back catalogue available for free download!
  Little Chris spots that Miss Halliwell (not Geri) have put their two EPs up online for free
• Modulate says “Hello” with digital technology
  “some of our members have been working away in the background on one of the interactive installations, “Field of Light ”, a project dreamed up by the PLUS team, who also devised ’Illuminate‘”
• Plus+: Booking Tickets NOW OPEN
  £40 (25 conc) for four days, £15 (10 conc) for one. Get em while they’re hot.
• Anthony J Hughes on arts funding
  Interesting piece – “Funding as a concept and the funding and economic redevelopment projects aimed at supporting ‘creative industries’ has actually become a system supporting government ‘intervention’ and policy”
• stitches and hos October
  The 8th meeting of the “monthly knitting hootenanny” at the Hare & Hounds is on Tues 28 October

• Graphiquillan – tea break painting | process
  The joy of artists’ blogs – I like seeing the process behind/around the finished work. This is “the journey from sketch to almost finished study for a future painting”
• stitches and hos have a blog
  “For now here’s a picture of a knitted fish blanket that I love”.  A blog for the Birmingham chapter of the alt/nu/anti/un-knitting phenom. Ok, so ‘un-knitting’ doesn’t work as a descriptor.
• 7 Inch Cinema – Knitflicks
  More knitting-related action with photos from the weekend’s event in this gallery
• Supersonic 07 live recording – Oxbow Duo perform ‘Loves Holiday’
  After the success that was Supersonic 08, Capsule have released their first piece of vinyl on a limited run of 1000. I thought they were meant to be putting their feet up…