Hello all, welcome January and welcome brand new year! I hope January has been good to you and you were able to ease into the year a bit. I had planned to check in sooner but over here it’s been a busy, busy start of […]
I hope you all had a nice few days and that those who celebrate had a cosy holiday. I had meant to write a grand finale to my year in crafts here on the blog, but my household caught the sneeze and the last few […]
We have enjoyed a beautiful -if ludicrously mild- autumn. I’m kind of running out of superlatives to describe the rapid changes to our climate on the blog, but yeah, “there was little need for a sweater the entirety of October and my entire balcony garden […]
Hi all, this is my second post about my woven plaid twill scarf; the first project to get off my floor loom. Previously I wrote a deep dive into dressing the loom and the process of weaving it. This second post will talk about the […]
Merry meet on this Samhain Eve! Today I’m excited to tell you all about how weaving my first project on the floor loom went! I’m splitting posting about this project into two posts; one focussed on the process of weaving and the second one, focussed […]
Hello all and happy Autumn Equinox folks! After a warm start of September, which couldn’t be distinguished from the hot summer months before, we now truly seem to have entered the transition into the darker and colder months of the year. After weeks of no […]
Earlier in the summer, I briefly and vaguely alluded to some very exciting weaving developments. As you will have been able to gather from the title of this post, ahem… things have spiralled quite spectacularly since my last in-depth post about my learning to weave […]
Hey all, it’s the end of July and I thought it would be nice to catch up with you on what I’ve been up to in the past weeks and what I’m currently working on. So grab a cup of whatever you like to drink […]
Today I wanted to show some new pieces of spinning equipment I have been enjoying and some new spinning territories and techniques I have thrown myself into. Ever since I got into spinning my mum would sometimes ask if I was on the lookout for […]
After the success of my onion dyeing adventure a while ago and the lush colour obtained from that dyebath, I was keen to do some more experiments. In this post I’ll be dyeing two island yarns with onion skins and showing you the results of […]
