We went out the other day to take in the last of autumn and see the birth of the new winter season. When we were there, we took the opportunity to photograph my first self sewn coat. It was a beautiful cold, cold walk in […]
Congrats everyone, we survived whatever the end of November has become! As someone who doesn’t even live in a country that celebrates thanksgiving it’s truly bewildering to see how in just a few years out of the blue it has become an overwhelming capitalist hellscape […]
Today I’m showing you the Wilhelmina cardigan, previously also referred to on the blog as “my magnificent fluff monster”. I worked on this cardigan during the great winter storm of late February last year when the snow was building up against my windows and long […]
Today I’m going to show you one of my proudest achievements of this year; my first finished quilt! You might remember I mentioned in the past year that I dug out scraps of an old quilt work in progress and started working on it in […]
I’ve got a very autumnal yoke sweater to show you today. It is particularly brilliant to blend in with the rusty orange and dark red foliage of these autumn days, but the rich dark brown main colour makes it well suited to blend in with […]
Hello and good day! Autumn finally seems to have kicked things off properly in these parts since we last spoke and I am enjoying getting out in the woods as much as possible and drinking in the changing colours and trying to see how many […]
October greetings friends! October, how on earth did that happen? When we were halfway through September I said to my partner how is it that my favourite months in the year always speed by as if they are chased by a pack of angry foxes. […]
Do you sometimes look back at the way you’ve travelled to get to where you are now? Think about all the many different roads, sand paths, ally ways, cramped busy city streets you took. I thought about that a lot while working on this shawl. […]
On this sunlit warm September day I thought I would come and tell you about what’s possibly my favourite summer dress… ever. I’ve had this exact dress in my head since at least last summer, and I stitched it up just now right at the […]
Hi all, and welcome September! On the morning of the first day of the month, I was greeted by a red squirrel foraging for seeds and hopping from tree to tree in a dark foliage covered woodland path. In that snapshot it felt as if […]
