It’s feeling very spring-like now in west Wales. I love this time of year with the blackthorn blossoming and the birds shouting their joy a little bit earlier every morning. For the last couple of months I’ve been on an online
About me
I’m from Cumbria but now I live in west Wales. For the past ten years my home has been the beautiful Isle of Tiree in the Inner Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland, so this is a big change for me. I think about the quiet discipline of cloth: habits and quotidian rhythms and the structure of praying the hours; how our outworn clothes embody our history and memory; about what we keep and what we waste, and about connections and inclusion and mixing things up.
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Tiny Little Encouragements
The Tiny Little Encouragements project began with a series of small handwoven bags, containers for sharing words of encouragement or inspiration. You're invited to participate, if you're inspired, by creating a tiny bag, pouch or box, a container or vessel of your own, and sending it to someone else with some words you'd like to share.
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The meaning of making
A conversation the other day about artistic identity reminded me about this piece I wrote a few years ago for UK Handmade; I noticed that it’s no longer available there when I tried to revisit it and I’d like to share
