1 00:00:00,933 --> 00:00:04,866 JOE HAMMEL -- JO HAMILTON TAKES HER GRANDMOTHER'S LESSONS AND 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:07,999 CHANNELS THEM INTO HER ART. HAMILTON TURNED AN ACTIVITY 3 00:00:08,133 --> 00:00:10,765 THAT'S OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH AN OLDER GENERATION INTO A FUN, 4 00:00:10,900 --> 00:00:14,432 HIP, COLORF ACTIVITY BY PUTTING A FACE TO A BALL OF 5 00:00:14,566 --> 00:00:17,065 YARN. 6 00:00:19,967 --> 00:00:30,599 THIS IS JO HAMILTON'S STUDIO. IT'S PARADISE IN HERE. 7 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:33,433 IT'S FILLED WITH YARN. YARN OF EVERY COLOR YOU CAN 8 00:00:33,567 --> 00:00:37,399 THINK OF. 9 00:00:38,267 --> 00:00:40,666 ♪♪ 10 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:45,866 SHE USES ALL THIS YARN TO CROCHET STUFF. 11 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:54,166 THAT'S WHAT SHE DOES. CROCHETS, ALL DAY LONG. 12 00:01:01,434 --> 00:01:06,366 HOW DID YOU LEARN TO DO THAT? MYELOGRAM TAUGHT ME WHEN 13 00:01:08,100 --> 00:01:10,799 MY GRAM TAUGHT ME WHEN I WAS ABOUT SIX YEARS OLD. 14 00:01:10,934 --> 00:01:13,799 THE FIRST THING I LEARNED TO CROCHET IS A GRANNY SQUARE WHICH 15 00:01:13,934 --> 00:01:18,798 I WOULD SAY IS THE MOST COMN SEEN PATTERN IN CROCHET. 16 00:01:18,933 --> 00:01:22,233 IF YOU KNOW HOW TO MAKE A GRANNY SQUARE, THEN YOU CAN PRETTY MUCH 17 00:01:22,367 --> 00:01:27,698 MAKE ANYTHING. ONE DAY, JO GOT A BIG IDEA. 18 00:01:27,833 --> 00:01:31,500 SHE TOOK SOME YARN AND HER HOOK AND BEGAN TO CROCHET SOMETHING 19 00:01:31,633 --> 00:01:34,500 THAT NO ONE HAD EVER TRIED BEFORE. 20 00:01:34,633 --> 00:01:41,065 SHE STARTED TO CROCHET A LANDSCAPE OF PORTLAND. 21 00:01:42,699 --> 00:01:49,665 ♪♪ 22 00:01:51,033 --> 00:01:53,466 THIS BROWN STRIPE HERE REPRESENTS BURNSIDE. 23 00:01:53,601 --> 00:01:56,965 ALL THE BLUES ACROSS HERE REPRESENTS THE RIVER. 24 00:01:57,100 --> 00:02:02,965 THE BIG PINK, CITY HALL, THE HAWTHORNE BRIDGE, BROADWAY, AS I 25 00:02:03,100 --> 00:02:06,032 ENVISIONED IT. STEEL BRIDGE. 26 00:02:06,167 --> 00:02:11,099 THE CONVENTION CENTER. ONE GRANNY SQUARE FROM MY GRAND, 27 00:02:11,234 --> 00:02:14,932 WHICH I TURNED INTO A LITTLE BUILDING. 28 00:02:15,066 --> 00:02:19,433 AT THE TIME I WAS WORKING ON IT WAS WHEN A LOT OF BUILDINGS WERE 29 00:02:19,568 --> 00:02:23,799 GOING UP IN NORTHWEST PORTLAND SO THERE WERE JUST CRANES 30 00:02:23,933 --> 00:02:32,999 EVERYWHERE. THE PIECES ARE MEANT TO BE MORE 31 00:02:33,133 --> 00:02:35,533 OLD-SCHOOL. ESTABLISHED PORTLAND, LOTS OF 32 00:02:35,668 --> 00:02:38,899 TREES, VICTORIAN, KIND OF WARMER, MORE NATURAL COLORS AS 33 00:02:39,033 --> 00:02:45,132 OPPOSED TO THE KIND OF NEW BRASH SIGHT OF PORTLAND AS IT'S BEING 34 00:02:45,267 --> 00:02:48,633 BUILT. I WAS WORKING IN A RESTAURANT, 35 00:02:48,766 --> 00:02:52,667 AND MY C CORKERS, I HAD SHOWN THEM WHAT I WAS DOING, THE START 36 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:56,932 OF THE CITYSCAPE WHEN IT WAS STILL ONLY A COUPLE OF FEET, AND 37 00:02:57,067 --> 00:03:02,200 THEY WERE GOOD-NATUREDLY MAKING FUN OF ME FOR CROTCHETING 38 00:03:02,334 --> 00:03:04,999 PORTLAND. YOU'LL CROCHET ALL THE WAY TO -- 39 00:03:05,133 --> 00:03:10,366 THAT SORT OF THING. AS A JOKE I SAID, SHUT UP OR 40 00:03:10,501 --> 00:03:18,266 I'LL CROCHET YOU. AND THAT'S JUST WHAT SHE DID. 41 00:03:18,401 --> 00:03:21,266 BY NOW, JO KNEW SHE HAD CROSSED THE LINE. 42 00:03:21,401 --> 00:03:24,899 E WAS USING HER GRANDMA'S TRADITIONAL CRAFT TO MAKE FINE 43 00:03:25,033 --> 00:03:29,166 ART. YOU KNOW, I BEGAN TO REALIZE 44 00:03:29,301 --> 00:03:33,765 THAT REALLY I COULD PRETTY MUCH CROCHET ANYTHING. 45 00:03:33,900 --> 00:03:38,233 NO LIMITATIONS, AND I COULD GET AMAZING LIKENESSES, NOT JUST 46 00:03:38,367 --> 00:03:44,132 LIKENESSES OF PEOPLE BUT REALLY CAPTURE PEOPLE'S SPIRIT IN YARN 47 00:03:44,267 --> 00:03:50,899 IN A WAY THAT EVEN KIND OF STILL AMAZES ME. 48 00:03:51,033 --> 00:03:56,400 THIS IS THE AMISH TURK.K. HE WAS A CHEF AT THE RESTAURANT 49 00:03:56,534 --> 00:04:02,600 WHERE I WORKED. THIS IS COREY HOPPER, ANOTHER 50 00:04:02,733 --> 00:04:11,032 CHEF. THIS IS MY FRIEND, BRIAN ADAMS 51 00:04:11,167 --> 00:04:12,466 HARTFORD. 52 00:04:16,167 --> 00:04:22,266 THIS IS SHREDDY, AKA ERIN, WHO WAS DISHWASHER AT THE 53 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:30,633 RESTAURANT. THIS IS JEVON WHO WAITED TABLES 54 00:04:30,767 --> 00:04:36,432 WITH ME. THIS IS A PORTRAIT OF GRANT WHO 55 00:04:36,567 --> 00:04:43,099 WAS A WAITER. HE WAS A REALLY GOOD SUBJECT. 56 00:04:43,234 --> 00:04:46,366 I KIND OF REALLY LIKE THE EXPRESSION ON THIS ONE. 57 00:04:46,500 --> 00:04:53,932 LITTLE HALF SMILE. AND HIS BLUE HAIR. 58 00:04:54,067 --> 00:04:58,799 THIS IS LISA. SHE WAS A OST AND SERVER. 59 00:04:58,933 --> 00:05:03,799 SHE HAS A LOT OF HAIR. 60 00:05:07,467 --> 00:05:12,066 THIS IS MY SELF-PORTRAIT. IT ENDED UP BEING A REALLY 61 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:19,266 STRANGELY FAST PIECE THAT ONLY TOOK A LITTLE OVER A WEEK. 62 00:05:21,334 --> 00:05:26,666 WHENEVER I START A PORTRAIT, I ALWAYS START WITH THE LEFT EYE. 63 00:05:26,801 --> 00:05:29,800 I START RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LEFTYE WITH THE PUPIL 64 00:05:29,934 --> 00:05:34,800 SURROUNDED BY THE IRIS. AND THEN BUILD IT OUT FROM 65 00:05:34,934 --> 00:05:36,800 THERE. THE REASON IT WORKS REALLY WELL 66 00:05:36,934 --> 00:05:40,833 WITH CROCHET IS BECAUSE I CAN CHANGE DIRECTION ANYTIME I WANT. 67 00:05:40,967 --> 00:05:45,966 AND IF YOU KNOW HOW TO CROCHET, YOU CAN SEE WHAT I AM DOING BY 68 00:05:46,100 --> 00:05:49,666 THE DIRECTION OF THE STITCHES. SO ANYTIME YOU SEE A LINE IN 69 00:05:49,801 --> 00:05:52,999 CROCHET, THAT IS THE DIRECTION THAT I'M GOING IN. 70 00:05:53,134 --> 00:05:58,466 I BASICALLY CIRCLE THE EYE, AND THAT GIVES ME THE STRUCTURE OF 71 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,399 THE EYE SOCKET. AND THEN BEL THAT, THE 72 00:06:01,534 --> 00:06:04,133 CHEEKBONES, AND THEN USUALLY I'LL DO THE OTHER EYE AND THEN 73 00:06:04,267 --> 00:06:08,166 FIGURE OUT WHAT I NEED TO DO IN THE MIDDLE TO JOIN THEM. 74 00:06:08,301 --> 00:06:12,433 IT REALLY MAKES ME LAUGH SOMETIMES WHEN I SEE THE GLINT 75 00:06:12,567 --> 00:06:16,599 IN SOMEBODY'S EYE THAT I KNOW IS THERE IN REAL LIFE. 76 00:06:16,734 --> 00:06:23,766 OR SOMEBODY WHO IS SURLY, I'VE GOT THEIR EXPRESSION. 77 00:06:23,900 --> 00:06:30,032 I'M SURE A LOT OF CRAFTERS ARE HORRIFIED BY WHAT I DO. 78 00:06:30,166 --> 00:06:38,065 RULES ARE THERE TO BE BROKEN, AS ANY ARTIST KNOWS. 79 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:43,432 I GET A LOT OF E-MAILS FROM PEOPLE SAYING I'VE BEEN 80 00:06:43,566 --> 00:06:47,165 CROTCHETING FOR 40 YEARS, AND I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE 81 00:06:47,300 --> 00:06:51,632 THIS, AND IT'S REALLY AMAZING AND I'M REALLY INSPIRED, AND 82 00:06:51,767 --> 00:06:54,465 THAT'S REALLY COOL THAT LITTLE OLD LADIES ALL OVER THE WORLD 83 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:58,532 ARE TAKING THE TIME TO RIGHT TO ME AND, YOU KNOW, THEY ARE 84 00:06:58,666 --> 00:07:02,032 ENJOYING WHAT I DO. 85 00:07:03,833 --> 00:07:08,432 TO SEE MORE, VISIT JoHamiltonart.com.