Dream in colour, create in fabric, thread, yarn, words, whatever you have to hand
Back in January, did you have a word for 2019? I actually chose a word but I didn’t ever blog about it. That was partly because we had lots of relations visiting and I didn’t get around to it but it was also because I kept coming upon the idea that that public goal setting […]
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Slowly and intermittently, over this long time that I’ve been gardening, I have been pondering (and very occasionally working on) a new project and, at last, the nuts and bolts of it are starting to come together. This is a smallish double-side quit. The dark blue is a fairly improv sewing together of night-coloured scraps, […]
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“Let us to go for a walk in the park”, she said. “We will take some bread for the ducks And jam jars to catch fishes in And, maybe, a skipping rope…” “The blackbird is sure to be singing,” she said, “And children will be flying kites, Making castles in the sandpit, And throwing […]
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Welcome to the August edition of Wool on Sundays! It has been very hot here, lately. Much too hot for knitting really but I did make a couple of small ice creams. I made them for my Endeavourers quilt but then decided it already had too much going on. Should you happen to want to […]
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Welcome to Wool on Sundays! And thank you for visiting my long abandoned blog :) At last, this month, I have managed to get back to a very little woolliness and I’m on the last arm of this jumper that I started months ago. You can probably guess why! The garden, alas, goes ever onwards […]
Read More…Welcome to Wool on Sundays! I’m sorry if anyone came by last month and found me not here. My brother in law and his family were over from Canada and we had a lovely time with them and other family and it altogether slipped my mind. Sadly, another month has passed and I’ve made not […]
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The master plan, funnily enough, was not to stop making things and never blog again. It was to make the garden more manageable so it would be less work and I would have more time for sewing! A particularly labour intensive business is the weeding of the vegetable beds where seeds from the grass and […]
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Happy Beltane, May Day or what you will! Late Spring/early Summer is my favourite time of year and for many years, I’ve had it in mind to make a sunny May Day quilt bursting with flowers and, of course, a May Pole full of ribbons and dancing children… But this is not that year! Today […]
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