Weird, Wonderful, & Woolen
In the hands of one acclaimed Cushing artist, knitting goes way beyond warm sweaters and socks.
By Rebecca Martin Evarts, portraits by Benjamin Magro
Forget the knitting you thought you knew. Forget baby booties, knit-one-purl-two instructions and patterns. Cushing artist Katharine Cobey is taking knitting places it has never gone before.In her studio overlooking the Meduncook River, Cobey knits with fibers of all sorts, from traditional wools and silks to telephone wire, stainless steel yarn, plastic trash bags, and even unraveled copper Chore Boy pot scrubbers. In her strong hands, this humble craft more associated with grandmothers and sofa-sitting than fine art conveys significant ideas that demand to be taken seriously.
