Nobody Owens, image copyright Giles Babbidge Photography Reading Neil Gaiman’s fabulous, spooky children’s story The Graveyard Book last year, I was struck by the changes in the small world of the main character. An orphaned baby at the start of the book, he is taken in by not the living, but the dead in order […]
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I have been involved for a couple of years in an online art group called @platea. I’m part of their steering committee and earlier this year, devised and led a performance called #PlateaKnit on 25th -29th January 2010. As our strap line says, “@Platea is a global collective of individuals interested in the power of
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In a recent discussion on the Ravelry board for A Stitch in Time volume 1, the issue of lifelines came up in relation to the pattern Knitter’s Delight. As you can see from the image of Knitter’s Delight, above, it is a lace pattern. This is where the lifelines come in… If you have never
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My ongoing series of art socks is currently having its second solo show, this time in a local art gallery, The Spring in Havant, Hampshire. As well as those pieces that I showed at Prick Your Finger last spring, there are three new additions to the series. The Sherlock Holmes sock, as it was then
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Last weekend was the Unravel knitting festival at Farnham Maltings and for the second year I was there working with Susan Crawford. It was as always, hard work and great fun all bundled into one. The most exciting thing about the weekend (well, apart from getting to wear the original Fair Isle Yoke from A
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