I first came across Solveigh Gott’s excellent textile work when I showed one of her knitted pieces in the Knit1, Build 1 exhibition at the Here Gallery two years ago.

I’m a big fan of her project, The Textile Files. It’s a simple but very evocative project: she collects bits of fabric, attaches them to a file card and then blogs the picture with a piece of related text. I was just checking her blog and saw this picture of pins, which immediately got me excited.

Solveigh Gott: Pins from The Textile Files

I started reading the text and thought “hey great, someone else is working with pins!” – and then promptly realised that the reason the text sounded so familiar was because it was written by me! Yep, she was quoting text from this very website – thanks, for the mention, Solveigh, I’m very flattered to have been included in The Textile Files.

But really, fancy not recognising my own writing – I am such a doofus sometimes! Still, it’s not quite as bad as the time I started reading a list of livejournal interests and thought “wow, this sounds like someone I would get on with, I should friend them” before realising that I’d accidentally backpaged and was reading my own interest list. Still, I suppose it’s positive that I instantly liked myself…

I first came across Solveigh Gott’s excellent textile work when I showed one of her knitted pieces in the Knit1, Build 1 exhibition at the Here Gallery two years ago....

Angie Reed Garner is an artist I know from her Livejournal. We’ve never met but we’ve read each others blogs for a couple of years now. I like her spirited painting style and bold use of colour.

I like her birds and buildings best but she also does a mean line in feisty, curvy, naked women.

Angie Reed Garner is an artist I know from her Livejournal. We’ve never met but we’ve read each others blogs for a couple of years now. I like her spirited...

Dancing Crow makes daily sewn postcards.

Of course, I couldn’t resist this one of keys!

I’m rather in awe of this project since I can’t imagine sewing every day. The Diary Project seems quite simple in comparison but I expect there are people out there saying, ‘ooh, but I couldn’t draw every day’, so I guess it’s all relative.

Dancing Crow makes daily sewn postcards. Of course, I couldn’t resist this one of keys! I’m rather in awe of this project since I can’t imagine sewing every day. The...

Ha, someone spent a month making a replica of the Damien Hirst diamond skull using crystals instead of diamonds, just so they could place it on a pile of rubbish outside the gallery where he was exhibiting the real skull. Classic!

Original link here.

Ha, someone spent a month making a replica of the Damien Hirst diamond skull using crystals instead of diamonds, just so they could place it on a pile of rubbish...

You can meet some fantastically talented people on the internet.

Cally over at Cally Creates has an amazing eye for colour and form, takes beautiful photographs and always seems to find wonderful artists to link to. I particularly admire the way she remains creative and inspiring despite having a chronic illness that severely limits her own art making.

I love this simple but effective image from her latest post. You can see more of her photos over on her flickr.

You can meet some fantastically talented people on the internet. Cally over at Cally Creates has an amazing eye for colour and form, takes beautiful photographs and always seems to...