Back in September, Phil and I spent a short week visiting Paris. We visit once a year (we stay in a caravan park in Maisons-Lafitte, so it’s quite a cheap break), and we always try to do a day trip outside Paris. This year we visited Chantilly – in particular, the Château de Chantilly. I can […]
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On Thursday, I booked a day off work to visit The Knitting & Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace. I made a little video of my favourite stands and what I bought, which you can view here: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5wnelD8_Sk] I was there to help out on the stand of the Association of Guilds of Weavers, Spinners
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The 2016 SewBrum meet-up took place on Saturday 24th September. I’m not planning to publish a weekly vlog, but I am planning to publish one every so often when I have something to share. I filmed a little bit of footage during SewBrum which you can view below: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-iWte7c1_I] As in previous years, the
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I have an article included in the October issue of Seamwork, which was released yesterday. The article is a profile of the in-house costume department at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in Stratford-upon-Avon. The RSC is one of a small number of UK theatre companies with a dedicated costume department (others include the National Theatre, Royal Opera
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I’ve mentioned previously that I’m a member of the Birmingham Guild of Weavers, Spinners & Dyers. The Guild is part of a larger Association, which coordinates cross-Guild activities and events – including national exhibitions and summer schools every other year. The Association hasn’t previously had much of an online presence, so recently I took on the
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British yarn maestros Blacker Yarns have two new yarns going on sale today at 10am! The first is a range of new colours for Blacker’s St. Kilda lace-weight yarn, hand dyed by Joy of The Knitting Goddess. Blacker’s St. Kilda yarn contains wool from St Kilda’s (an archipelago which is the remotest part of the British Isles) native
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As in previous years, we’ll be holding a raffle at the SewBrum meet-up this Saturday! Raffle tickets are only on sale to attendees on the day of the meet-up and the raffle will be drawn in the afternoon at Guthrie & Ghani. All money raised by the raffle, along with donations in exchange for tea and
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With SewBrum coming up next week, I thought I’d share a personal guide to Birmingham city centre, taking in my favourite places to eat/shop/meander. I’m deeply biased; not only have I lived in the suburbs of Birmingham for my whole life, I have also visited the city centre every week or so since I was a
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Just a quick post to let you know that, thanks to the lovely Kerry, I’m featured in the September issue of Sewing World magazine (which has been on sale since mid-August, I’m late posting…). Kerry writes a regular article for the magazine, with the September issue’s on the topic of natural dyeing. I’m featured alongside
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I haven’t found as much time to blog recently as I would have liked. I don’t get hung up about it – despite (or perhaps because of) working as a project manager, I prefer to be fairly unorganised in my own time and don’t like to plan ahead very far. However, I do really enjoy blogging and miss