Artist Margaret Oomen has wonderful creations that leave you speechless. These crocheted stones are gorgeous. She also has an Etsy Shop http://www.etsy.com/shop/knitalatte where you can purchase her crocheted stones (if you're quick enough since they go so quickly!) as well as beautiful still life photographs of her crocheted stones
Currently I am using stones that have been made smooth by the constant energetic forces of nature. I have collected them during my travels and from the kind donations of wonderful people all over the world. I feel the ocean and sea stones connect us in ways difficult for us to fathom. I cover these stones using only repurposed vintage threads worked with vintage crochet hooks. I like the idea that these materials were forming lace patterns long before I used them in my own two hands to cover the stones. The crochet patterns are almost always inspired by things I have observed in nature: lichen, leaves, webs, frost patterns, and snowflakes, to name a few. Fractal patterns, Fibonacci, and other mathematical sequences are more obvious with some of the crocheted stones than in others. Most of my patterns are made up as I crochet along using the color, texture, and shape of the stone to guide me. When I am not crocheting I am arranging my collections and photographing them in arrangements that emphasize their relationships to each other and the natural world
See more on Margerets blog http://www.resurrectionfern.typepad.com/
Margeret Ooman's crocheted orb by day and by night, to see how this orb is made go here http://resurrectionfern.typepad.com/resurrection_fern/2008/07/crochet-a-spher.html
