I tell stories around
and about textiles.

Connecting you with our collective textile heritage,
I aim to inspire and create an escape from the everyday.

Escape with me to your Granny’s workbox

Munrospun knitting book number 10, showing a woman modelling a turquoise handknitted lace jumper with red ribbon threaded through top in two bands. She is perched on a side table. The knitting book is laid flat on table and accessorised with some gold knitting needles.
Ingrid is smiling while looking over the top of a vintage Stitchcraft magazine.

I’m Ingrid; a knitter, sewist, textiles historian and craft skills teacher with 20 years experience working professionally in the field of textile crafts, and over thirty five years experience of making them. I like investigating objects and am very inquisitive about the stories behind them.

I come from a long line of talented knitters and sewers and have inherited not only their skills but also many of their books, patterns, and tools.

I’m keen to encourage the reuse of pieces of textile history in the form of patterns, magazines, and haberdashery, either as tools to be used, or drawn upon as inspiration – there’s nothing like reading some of the adverts in vintage magazines to get a feel of the period. I hope that you will find them as fascinating as I do!

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