the costumes of Station Eleven
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the costumes of Station Eleven
Read Morecouched X’s and embroidered barnacles
Read Morethinking in three dimensions
Read Morecreative, collective and protective acts of making
Read Morecontemporary bluestockings, Mimi and Gloria Onyekwere
Read Moresome of the thinking behind the making
Read MoreAre ye dancin?
Read Moreaccepting that not everything works out is key to the (slow) creative process
Read MoreOuti Kater introduces a wonderful design inspired by Finnish childhood winters and restorative woodland spaces
Read MoreNicole Wagler tells us about eighteenth-century porcelain and her sense of place in Meissen
Read MoreRebecca Osborn shares a beautiful design, inspired by her place in the Canadian Arctic
Read MoreToday we released the Evendoon Cardigan – the third pattern in our 10 Years in the Making Club (come and join us for three months of knitting fun!) I really enjoyed styling this cardigan with my beautiful Mull Bag, which was made for me a wee while ago by Colin Campbell of McRostie: one of…
Read MoreA little over a year ago I travelled to Reading for a confab with my friend Felix. We’d had an idea to work on a project together with our mutual friend and colleague, Mel, and wanted to thrash things out. By the time I was heading north again, we’d come up with a plan: to…
Read MoreI have been thinking a lot over the past week about the difficulties of talking about the mental health “benefits” of a craft like knitting. There’s a lot of really interesting research about crafts and mental health about right now, but I often have problems with the way such research is publicly communicated or presented.…
Read MoreOne of the many things I really like about the communities and cultures of crofting is their distinctive effect on the way people work. What I mean is this: in towns and cities, jobs tend to become more and more specialised, people do what they do within smaller and smaller categories, individual work occurs in…
Read MoreOne thing you can say about knitting: it really makes you think about the many different processes that producing textiles involve. For example, prior to becoming an obsessive knitter, I had never really considered blocking a woollen garment (with water or with steam) . . . . . . nor had I understood what a…
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