Oxford Bluestockings

contemporary bluestockings sharing their knitting, their learning and their feminism

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reflections on My Place

The My Place project illustrates how a challenge might turn into a creative opportunity

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your thoughts welcome

Tom’s photograph of Otter Ferry, from his Light by the Sea exhibition. Good morning! This has felt like quite a busy week: mostly, I’ve been working hard developing a new design. There’s also been some research, some writing, and some knitting for my collaboration with Pilar, my friend, in Mexico City, and Applied Arts Scotland…

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eight years!

I just had a notification from WordPress that it is apparently eight years ago today since my first blog post here. This is a pretty significant anniversary, and I’ve spent the past couple of hours thinking about how important this online space has been for me. Many of you will recogise the old needled header…

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Tenebrae

I have more posts to come from Iceland, but today I wanted to briefly mention one of those interesting cross-connections which are one of the many reasons I enjoy writing this blog. During a trip to Shetland in September, 2012, I took this photograph of a boat moored near Norwick beach in Unst. I later…

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