I like to think of leaves as autumn’s equivalent of springtime blossom. Like the blossom, it’s only for a few short weeks. And if the weather is bad and it’s very windy, it can be even less. There’s often a real desire to hold onto the leaves and…
I’m currently working on a project for my textiles degree where I need to dye small amounts of fabric and roving with natural dyes. I have tried dyeing with plant material before with limited success, and it was the right time to give it another go! Yet more…
Recently I wrote a post about limits and limitations. The world we live in tells us that we don’t enough. We need more, better, newer. If there’s a problem, all we need to do is buy a thing and that will make it go away. There are so…
Last week I shared a tiny weaving I made using embroidery thread, with a piece of cardboard as a loom. I used colours from a colour scheme I made from a photo of some lupins. The colours are so beautiful, I still feel like I haven’t exhausted them!…
About a month ago, I was sitting outside the library in Dersingham eating my lunch and admiring some lupins that had been planted nearby. I’m not much of a gardener myself, but I like gardens, and somebody had made the little bit between the library and the car…
Choosing to respond to what is around us in the moment can sometimes take the form of almost wanting to preserve it. Spring is a glorious time, and now in late spring, with summer looming, everything is lush and green. People’s gardens are full of flowers, and I’ve…