TIF Challenge March 2
It’s April already and March has… gone – I’m not sure where. I don’t really think I’ve risen to Sharon’s challenge to pay attention to the tiny details during March, but as the month dashed on I...
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My response to Sharon’s April TIF challenge is about craft as change, taking something raw and unformed but full of potential, and effecting a transformation through a making process. Something like ‘n...
View Articlemore felt
I’m not sure about either of the pieces of felt I made today but at least I made them One is an experiment stitching into prefelt before felting – more play with a piece of fleece. The images show...
View Articlejudging a book by its cover
I know you shouldn’t but sometimes it’s hard not to – this new book Eco-Colour by India Flint looks so beautiful and the subtitle is so enticing – ‘Botanical Dyes for Beautiful Textiles:...
View Articlelooking and listening
A little bit of weekend inspiration This is a quote from the opening page of “The Twelve Dancers” by William Mayne, published by Puffin Books, 1964. Blue is the colour of the sky. Marlene was in bed...
View ArticleWoolfest 2008
Although I’ve already posted today, I wanted to write about the Woolfest before I go away or the memory will have faded. It’s a wonderful show – a combination of all the elements of fibre arts – from...
View Articledrawing breath
Life always gets away from me in the summer when time away (lovely as it is) means twice as much work to fit into the weeks afterwards – and it’s not long before we set off again, this time heading...
View Articlekeeping the blogging habit
I always seem to find it much easier to get out of a habit of doing something than to get into one, and even harder to get back into one after the habitualness has slipped away. I don’t really know...
View ArticleI bought a rainbow!
Sorry about the shiny photo – I think it looks so pretty all packaged up I haven’t opened any of the bags yet! Most of the fleece I’ve used up to now has been space dyed, which is wonderful for subtle...
View ArticleSeeing double – weave explorations
It’s feeling very spring-like now in west Wales. I love this time of year with the blackthorn blossoming and the birds shouting their joy a little bit earlier every morning. For the last couple of...
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