Dream in colour, create in fabric, thread, yarn, words, whatever you have to hand
Long, long ago – or so it seems, though it was really only until around the beginning of May – I used to blog here… But since my blogging and, alas, crafting adventures seem confined to the hours of rain and darkness, and since we’ve been enjoying an unusually long spell of glorious weather with […]
Read More…Welcome to Wool on Sundays :) Have you had a yarnful month? I think if there were a prize for the smallest bit knitting in a month (not counting months of no knitting at all) I would win! It has been very hot here, the garden is still on-going (though I am hoping an end […]
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Currently, I’m a prisoner in the garden where I seem destined to live out the rest of my days and late into the evenings weeding and weeding and weeding….So much time to dream up exciting new sewing projects – and so little time to sew… I will be back when it rains! I hope […]
Read More…Welcome to May’s Wool on Sundays. I hope the sun is shining, today, on your part of the world. Since the last Wool on Sundays, I seem to have been juggling lots of things and balls of wool were not in the mix. Mainly, my every waking (non-working) daylight moment has been taken up with […]
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I have been very absent here of late, after this quilt took on a life of its own and I very much feared I would never meet today’s deadline on the theme of Change/ Transformation. I hope to post more about it soon but some of my thinking behind this piece and and the quilts of […]
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Long ago, in my pre-blogging days, I used to do a lot of stitching, mainly cross stitch and some blackwork. Back then, it was the sort of pick-up-put-down portable work that knitting has been, for me, lately. Every now and again I find odd pieces mixed in with fabric scraps and I sew them into […]
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Welcome to the Easter edition Wool on Sundays and a very happy April Fools Day too :) My March knitting was Easter Bunny themed. You may have met Eggbert already (for more info about Eggbert and his daffodil, please see this post) and you may have wondered what he was going to do with his […]
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Well, it’s a far cry from the Rainbow Hare Makery, the city of Venice. So much so that I’m almost at a loss for what to say or where to begin. So, whilst I collect my thoughts and organise my photos, I will start simply with a selection of views from a gondala :) I […]
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When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! The doxy over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o’ the year; For the red blood reigns in the winter’s pale. (Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale IV,11) Alas, the ‘sweet of the year’ is yet (but hopefully soon) to come and, despite the daffodils blooming everywhere, it […]
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