Recycled cardi hottie
Finally got around to recycling a fave cardi (has beautiful glitterly bits in it – never found yarn like it…). It had felted a little too much, moths had got at it, and the arms had gone too long. And yet I couldn’t sling it. The British summer was forgotten this weekend, so whilst it ...
Green gold
I don’t think I’ve had so much watercress in my kitchen ever.This lot was sent fresh from a friend’s farm and arrived in the post! I’ve made a ton of tasty watercress soup, had watercress salad and watercress sandwiches for tea (a variation of cucumber sandwiches high tea fans; bread, butter, salt & pepper; crusts ...
Easy Brioche Stitch!
I’d been tempted to try this waffley, tweedish stitch for a while but could never make sense of the way the pattern was written.Example patterns include exhaustive, but v. complicated abbreviations, and overly descriptive ones from an ancient ‘mon tricot’ (although this is let off, as it has an extremely helpful picture of double stitch ...
A little bit of butter
I had a meeting with E (she just won this btw!) at the V&A on Friday and used it as an excuse to mooch about the gallery for a few hours. I saw my fave embroidered map, some beautiful tiles, this book exhibition and of course, had to check out the Supremes’ dresses at the ...
Space Jelly
If you’re in town at all, do check out these amazing Aerogel sculptures by Liliane Lijn at the Riflemaker gallery on Beak Street. The ‘space jelly’ contains interstellar dust collected by Nasa as part of their Stardust Project, and moulded by Lijn and Nasa during her residency there in 2005. The sculptures are housed upstairs ...
