Wow, how'd they DO that?

I've had a really busy week or so but I hate having delayed writing here. Man, I'm also really behind on my blogs. Lifehacker, Gothamist and Apartment Therapy, specifically. I'm good on the one-post-a-dayers and rely on their great photographs and writing at the end of a long day (they're on my sidebar in case you're wondering).

Anyway, I finally got around to seeing the Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting exhibit at the Museum of Arts & Design this past Sunday. I'm certainly not the first to blog about this, but wanted to urge you, fair reader, to go when you get a chance. It runs for another three months (scary to think that JUNE is only three months away already!) I wish I had posted this earlier this week, since MAD is pay-what-you-wish on Thursdays between 6 and 8pm.

I was amazed at how far you can stretch the definitions of "lace" and "knitting"--in terms of material, form and size. And meaning. How inspiring is it to see one of your crafts that you feel can be so ordinary and simple--taken for granted, even--stretched by the imagination and pushed to new limits. And instead of feeling "one-upped" and quite plain in comparison, you're a little pleasantly envious and practically elated to see your craft being shown off for all its possibilities.

Here are a couple favorites. Photography wasn't allowed so I'm borrowing from the MAD website.

Labels: inspiration, knitting