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 […]
Almost eleven years ago, to celebrate our friend Liz’s upcoming wedding, a few Oxford Bluestockings knitters piled into cars and drove to the dye studio then run by Fyberspates. A very happy afternoon of dyeing ensued. This is all the yarn we dyed that day, on a variety of bases. The sparkly one (I think?) […]
Lately I’ve found myself thinking about The Brownies in which I was enrolled at around seven years old. Here I am making my enrolment pledge and wearing my freshly purchased Brownies uniform… The above photo leaves me with conflicting feelings: it was a little rite of passage and a magic moment for me, yet in […]
There’s a feeling of calm following what has been a busy time completing work on my Knit Stars 6 Masterclass Handout. It ended up pretty much being a book. What can I say? By the time you write introductory text plus short biographies for twelve artists, then add twelve charts in black and white and […]
Things have been quiet here on the blog because all my energy is going into my Knit Stars 6 Masterclass: Think Like An Artist. This class builds on long-standing ideas from my practice around celebrating daily life in stranded colourwork, but it’s also a love-letter to the many artists and makers on whose shoulders my […]
One of many things which makes listening to music so beautiful is space around the notes. The rests, the pauses, the silence, in which pitches and rhythms sound, hang, resonate. On our punch-cards for our componiums, such space shows up as unpunched card, and you get loads of areas where nothing happens. Against the gridded […]
Just popping in to say that my talk – KNITSONIK By Numbers – from the John Arbon Mill Open Weekend is now uploaded and online. I share quite a bit about my process of designing the cowl for my Knit Stars Class, as well as glimpses of the article itself! I also talk about my […]
Here at KNITSONIK the project on which I’m working with Muriel continues. I’m pattern-formatting, video-editing, copy-writing and working on our mixes, and our fabulous and incredibly helpful test-knitters (you know who you are <3) are trialling our ideas and giving us feedback. Today I thought I’d pop in to share a little more about the […]
I didn’t mean to disappear! But it’s been so busy there’s barely been a moment to sit down and collect my thoughts within myself, let alone on here. Yesterday I sat down with my KNITSONIK Bullet Journal and plotted out July and August, and already things feel calmer. I love seeing the pace of work […]
If you subscribe to my newsletter you’ll know I’ve been rediscovering my love of books over the Winter, and that I’ll be sharing some of my favourites here in coming days. Today I want to talk about Wheesht by my friend Kate Davies of KDD&Co. First published in December 2019, Wheesht has recently been reprinted […]