Game it Out? Crochet Criminals?

March 14, 2025

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2025 UPDATE! CHICAGO ILLINOIS Follow along here on Instagram as we turn a 144 year old Chicago storefront into a place for creative endeavors, events, and quality time. THAT SUMMER FEELING Replete with historical and cultural significance, forged through passing generations, Camp Wandawega in Elkhorn, Wisconsin , still oozes a nostalgic all-American charm thanks to its current custodians... All original elements have been dutifully preserved, while any new structures added by Tereasa and David have been salvaged from neighbouring farms, treehouses and lakeside cabins. The result is an assemblage of locally sourced, recycled lodgings . Among these, one encounters the Hill House, a more contemporary lodge; the Craft Cabin, a charming 1940s shack relocated from a nearby site; and the latest addition, a gi...

Paul Chan and His Mom Crochet Criminals Together

“We’ve been doing it like this since,” Chan explained. He comes up with a sketch of an infamous figure he thinks would make an interesting subject, and then the two of them chat on the phone (or “game it out,” in Chan’s words). Sometimes his mom thinks the shape of the figure should change, or else she just wants a challenge, “like knitting high heels.” They settle on colors. When she’s done, she mails the approximately 9–to-14-inch figures to him from her home in Los Angeles and Chan adds the finishing touches: a face, hats, eyewear, prison ankle bracelets.

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