Immediately after my rather sudden departure from the yarn department a few weeks ago – I was made redundant – I put aside knitting for a little while. Hardly surprising you might speculate, but I think really it was the thought that I didn’t have to do it that was quite liberating! I have even […]
What happens when you’re at that point in the tutorial where you need to take photographs of the top and back of a hat that’s being worn on your own head, by yourself? Well, if you’re me you’ll help things along by taking a nice wobbly video where it all goes a bit myspace in
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I recently had a busy afternoon making an appliquéd hexagon cushion at work. The yellow ombré cotton works perfectly against a slate grey Essex linen background. The photograph above shows the traditional technique of English paper pieced hexagons in progress. Fabric hexagons are cut out (about 1cm bigger all round than the paper hexagons), and
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It’s many years since I made a quilt, although I used to be quite prolific. I’m not really sure when patchwork and quilting fell out of favour for me, but at some point I definitely started knitting and spinning more. A while ago, one of my older quilts (20 years old I think, pictured below)
