Rachel "Ivy" Clarke

CUT ONS
by Rachel “Ivy” Clarke

Difficulty: Advanced Beginner. A quick and easy summer knit. Skills required: Knit, purl, working in the round, and blanket stitch.

Pattern inspiration:

I am not an artist. I simply like to make things. I believe that form follows function and I like to make functional, everyday, useful objects, but ones that incorporate beauty and meaning and rise above mass-produced, cold and hollow objects that fill our lives. In the past I’ve made everything from dance costumes to crystal paperweights, but I’m currently focused on textile forms with social and communal roots such as clothing, quilting, and knitting.

You Are Here: Brewery Artwalk 2009

Fat quarters for the Mod Quilt-Along, 2009.

Fashioning Community is an art installation highlighting the history and evolution of Burning Man fashion/costume/style, especially as it relates to and reflects community. Inspired by the idea of "costume as art" and traditional costume museum exhibits, the installation consists of a dense "forest" of figures, each dressed in an example of a certain aspect of "Burning Man style."

August 28-September 4, 2006
Esplanade and 7:30

Art installation and documentation (including website) by Ivy.

Corset detail of Victorian-inspired ensemble featuring barbed-wire trimmed hoop skirt, custom corset with matching barbed-wire print and fur trim, and modified t-shirt camisole with matching gloves and parasol. Created for Burning Man, 2006.

Skirt detail of Victorian-inspired ensemble featuring barbed-wire trimmed hoop skirt, custom corset with matching barbed-wire print and fur trim, and modified t-shirt camisole with matching gloves and parasol. Created for Burning Man, 2006.

Victorian-inspired ensemble featuring barbed-wire trimmed hoop skirt, custom corset with matching barbed-wire print and fur trim, and modified t-shirt camisole with matching gloves and parasol. Created for Burning Man, 2006.

Photo by Therm.

In The Loop, a fully-fashioned hand knitting purse pattern, first appeared in the Fall/Winter 2008-09 issue of the online publication MetaPostModernKnitting.

IN THE LOOP

by Rachel “Ivy” Clarke

Love Nugget, a fully-fashioned hand knitting beanie pattern, appeared in the Fall/Winter 2008-09 issue of the online publication MetaPostModernKnitting.

LOVE NUGGET

by Rachel “Ivy” Clarke

Difficulty: Intermediate