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 […]
September has come and while it is still absurdly warm, she brought with her some much needed rain for the first time in many, many weeks. Fingers crossed more will follow because the situation here -as in much of Europe- is dire. At the same […]
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 […]
Hey all, how is summer (or winter) going in your part of the world? We are truly into summer in my neck of the woods; everything green has had a growth spurt and more and more plants are shooting into flower. We’ve had sunny and […]
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 […]
Hi all! Can you believe we are already in mid May? The past weeks turned out bleak with women’s reproductive rights being taken away in America and with it we add another grim chapter to a series that has been really sad and depressive already. […]
As promised here is my post on the Selbu mittens I knit in February and March and a photographic revisit of the snow, cold and freeze we had earlier this month. Right now at the end of the month it seems somewhat bizarre to think […]
With March being record sunny, mild and dry I honestly didn’t think there would be any opportunity to even show you this winter coat until next autumn but April rolled around, and wanted to have a good laugh at us fools, and with it the […]
