Happy May Day!

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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Stitching, stitching and more stitching…

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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Wool on Sundays 151 – (Happy Easter!)

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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Some Views from a Gondala

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…

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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The Trial and Error Cats

As every pet owner knows (and I’m using the word ‘owner’, here, in the loosest possible sense because we all know who really owns who), now and again, when you are not thinking too much about it, you fall quite naturally into speaking each other’s language. And so it happened the other afternoon. It was […]

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A HAT

For Christmas, I made a collection of hats. Not only did I never get around to blogging about them, I gifted them without taking photos – you would have thought I’d have learned my lesson on gifting and asking the recipients for photos by now but, alas, not. Yesterday, however, we went out for lunch […]

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