Greetings from three weeks into the KNITSONIK & Friends Colour to Knit Club! Today I’ve been editing the recording of our second Zoom session and I’m feeling thoroughly inspired. In the enthusiasm of working on the eBook and seeing what everyone else is making, I’ve been happily making my own version of our first club […]
The KNITSONIK & Friends Colour to Knit Club officially opened up today – shout out to the members! – I’m really excited to share the first project with everyone who has signed up. Brightlingsea by Patricia Kimmitt (JudithJayne Design) is a lovely bold design in which the special memories of a place are celebrated with […]
I’ve been really enjoying getting our things into THE NEW KITCHEN! The whole project deserves its own post but for now let me just show you THE RAINBOW SHELF of cookbooks! Work has also been all about playing with colour, as the KNITSONIK & Friends Colour to Knit eBook and Club launched this week in […]
I’m really excited that, as part of their virtual May event, Vogue Knitting Live are debuting a new kind of creative class – one intended to support mental health through therapeutic writing. The new class is called “Using Therapeutic Writing to Tell Your Crafting Stories” and is led by counsellor and writer Shirley Anstis, who […]
Last weekend to escape our domestic disorder, we bunked off to the Bristol Channel. Our travels began in Weston-super-Mare where we found wide open beaches, mud flats, and a glorious sense of space. We admired the Grand Pier… …and its alluring cousin, Birnbeck Pier. We also found much beautiful art in Weston-super-Mare. For example these […]
Long-term readers may remember this crusty old tap which once graced the header of my old blog, The Domestic Soundscape, and which was one of many washing-up images I made when I was recording the sounds of washing up for a commission: The Fantastical Reality Radio Show. The crusty old tap is now gone, along […]
We got COVID again. For me it was worse this time than before, but this week I am feeling a bit better than last. Happily my sense of smell seems to be gradually returning – I was surprised by how deeply lonely and sad I felt to be temporarily without it. Hello again, smells. All […]
Today our street and several nearby are being resurfaced! Long-term readers who remember #TarmacTuesdays may appreciate my excitement over this process. It’s been amazing to watch and very strange to experience the street with no cars on it and this completely untouched, brand-new surface. The company doing this work posted fliers through all our doors […]
Do you remember when I wrote this post about saving plants from my garden with which to make a basket? Some time back in November I did finally manage to conclude this creative adventure. This hairy little basket is made of ivy, nettles and hazel from my own garden and is just the right size […]
Happy New Year! I’ve been enjoying the quiet days between Christmas Day and New Year, and using this slowed-down in-between time to think about the year that’s been, and the one to come. I thought it would be fun to turn one photo from each month into a postcard. Dear January – we have made […]