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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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TIF Challenge April 2

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...

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more 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...

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judging 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:...

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looking 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...

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Woolfest 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...

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drawing 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...

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keeping 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...

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I 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...

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Seeing 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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