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I’m having a giveaway!  Why?  Because I feel like it.  No milestone to celebrate, or anything.  Just wanting to give some stuff away.

So, what am I giving away?  My entire floss catalogue!  I’ll be drawing one winner at the end of the giveaway, and that winner will get one skein of each colour of floss in the MadXStitcher catalogue.  And maybe more, if there’s new stuff in the works that haven’t been listed yet.

At the time of this posting, that’s 74 skeins of floss.  This includes the new Neon range, which will definitely be expanding over the next few weeks.

Here’s some extra info in dot point form:

The winner will be drawn on August 1st, via random number generator.

Reblog this post to enter.

Reblog as many times as you like.

No giveaway blogs.

You don’t have to be following me to enter.

If you are following me, I’ll also throw in two floss packs of your choice.

If you reblog with a side blog, and you are following me, put your main blog in the tags when you reblog.

Ingenious cat toy. [video]

Captivating Knitted Illustrations by Rania Hassan

Rania Hassan is a DC-based artist, designer, painter, knitter, and printmaker. Her online shop Goshdarnknit caters original art, hand-print, notebooks and the perfect gifts to everybody. The artist is obsessed with moleskin material and original art illustrations.

Her knitted painting 3D series has been influenced by her recent discovery of the online community of knitters from around the planet.

The project is a series of paintings linked together by the yarn extending from the image. It escapes from one hand drawn illustration and spills out of each frame. The network of thread bridging one sketch to another is Rania Hassan’s interpretation of her ancestry. You can find more of her work in her Etsy shop.

A Milan, Italy based street artist known only as Biancoshock has been garnering some attention in the past few days for his curious new series of miniature rooms set within his local city streets. Underneath manhole covers and openings in the pavement, he has built elaborate and even luxurious interiors titled “Borderlife”, a series while surreal and evoking images of Alice’s tumbling rabbit-hole, takes its inspiration from a very real and serious issue.

The Kelpies; Falkirk, Scotland.

German artist Monika Grzymala describes her art as being more like drawing than installation works, drawn with sticky tape which wraps and transforms the surrounding space. “Whenever I leave a work, I feel as if I leave a part of me, a part of my body behind,” she says, referring to the performative aspects of her work, where creating each piece requires a physical effort on her part. Her energy as the artist lends itself to the fluidity and dynamic appearance of the tape, which seems to explode from the walls with force.