There are times when life is just too busy and things get left behind, Sharing some photos of the finished Russian Jumper is one of those things that time forgot. Until today when I went to put it on and thought,,, its now or never… and took it down to my garden studio, hung it on a pole and took…
Over the next few weeks I shall be writing up about my latest project… My Russian Jumper… which I hope to have finished in time for Christmas. I am hand knitting it from Bluefaced Leicester (BFL) yarn that I spun and plied myself and then naturally dyed. The pattern is also my own creation, although most of the individual motifs…
Having grown up being known as Maddy I have always felt a kinship with madder. But madder reds have always been somewhat of a mystery. When I planted up my dye garden in my allotment I did of course include madder, along with blue-making woad and some other dye favourites of mine – mostly yellow producing dyes. The chemistry of…
I so look forward to my trips to Cornwall. It is a coming home for me as my mother grew up there, we spent much of my childhood down there and I lived there some years ago. And I still like nothing more than ambling about gathering stuff and seeing what I can do with it (with permission of course).…
Last spring I had an enforced weaving holiday, brought about by the fact that my studio was turned (temporarily) into a storage space while we emptied our loft in readiness to have it converted and extended. It was very hard to interrupt the creative process but it gave me an opportunity to do some of the other things I love and which…