Creative practices of a textile artist from Queensland, Australia. Now living in Somerset, England.
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Pickled Alexanders, leek bulbs and flower buds
How to pickle Alexanders, three cornered leek bulbs and buds. Includes hot apple cider vinegar recipe. Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Foraging, Recipes, Travelling
Tagged Alexanders, apple cider vinegar, Cornwall, DIY, Fat Hen, Foraging, Helpx, home cooking, how-to, locally grown, pickles, self sufficiency, three cornered leek, Travel
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Assembling a yurt, finishing touches
Our main building project at Olabe is now complete! Finishing up the yurt and working out the kinks in our yurt assembly process took about a week in total. You can read about the first few days of the project … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Europe, Travelling, Works in progress, Workshops
Tagged Basque Country, cast iron stoves, construction, DIY, how-to, Mongolian yurt, Olabe, Spain, teamwork, Travelling, woodworking, Works In Progress, yurt building
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Yurt assembly in Basque Country; tips when building for your first yurt
My partner and I have been busy assembling a yurt in the Basque Country. We picked up a few tips and ideas you might want to consider if you are starting out on your first yurt building project. It has … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Europe, How-to, Works in progress, Workshops
Tagged Basque Country, building project, building yurts, collaboration, DIY, how-to, learning languages, Mongolian yurt, Olabe, Spain, teamwork, Travelling, woodwork, yurts
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Homebrewing and foraging rosehip wine
Rosehip wine brewed at home I think ‘rose hip wine’ has to be the most adventurous of the foraged wine making I have attempted so far. The must has now been racked and the cereal-y smell created throughout the fermenting process has … Continue reading
Posted in Homebrew, How-to, Preserves, Recipes, Somerset
Tagged fermenting, Foraging, homebrewing, how-to, rosehips, wine making, WIP
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Making crocheted earmuffs for winter, Part Three
Making crochet earmuffs for the winter chill Welcome to Part Three of my crochet earmuff tutorial! In Part One, I wrote about creating the crochet body, which the crochet petals are worked onto. In Part Two, I discussed how to … Continue reading
Posted in Crafternoons, Crochet & Knitting, Experiments, How-to, Re-use, Textiles, Travelling, Works in progress
Tagged artist perspective, crochet, DIY, Earmuffs, experimentation, handmade, how-to, repair, Reuse, sewing, soft sculpture, textile design, textiles, Travel, tutorials, wearable arts, Winter, WIP, Wool, work in progress
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Making earmuffs using crochet, Part Two
Making crochet earmuffs how-to, Part Two To save my sanity (pattern writing gets very tedious) I have broken up this post into three parts. Part One (making earmuffs for the winter chill) which includes the ingredients, can be found by following this … Continue reading
Posted in Crafternoons, Crochet & Knitting, Experiments, How-to, Re-use, Textiles, Travelling, Works in progress
Tagged alterations, artist perspective, crafternoons, Creative Reuse, crochet, DIY, Earmuffs, experimentation, handmade, how-to, soft sculpture, textile design, Travel, wearable arts, Winter, WIP, Wool, work in progress
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Making earmuffs for the winter chill, Part One
Making earmuffs to keep the cold out of my head I don’t know how everyone else does it in the northern hemisphere in winter. I swear, the cold blows straight into the part of my brain that gets a brain-freeze, … Continue reading
Posted in Crafternoons, Crochet & Knitting, Experiments, How-to, Re-use, Textiles, Travelling
Tagged crafternoons, crochet, DIY, Earmuffs, experimentation, handmade, how-to, Patterns, repair, soft sculpture, textile design, Travel, wearable arts, Winter, WIP, Wool, work in progress
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Pinterest tutorial results, How To Cover Shoes
I tackled a shoe tutorial found on Pinterest a few weeks ago now. It was a tutorial on covering secondhand shoes with a new fabric to give them a new life. It is from the lovemaegan blog, direct link available … Continue reading
Vintage craft book adults
Vintage craft book adults have their shit together a lot better than their youthful counterparts. It’s probably because they chose to be there…but there’s a couple that are just amazing.
Posted in How-to, Inspiration, Vintage Books
Tagged how-to, photography, textiles, vintage books, wearable arts
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Fur and leather sewing – where do I even start?
Fur and leather. I was recently passed down some items of sentimental value. There’s some kind of strange stuff; teeth, tusks, furs, leather tooling equipment, scrimshaw equipment… shells… hammers… photos…. Already sounds like an amazing contemporary art piece, or like … Continue reading
Posted in Crafternoons, Experiments, How-to, Re-use, Research
Tagged alterations, antique skills, experimentation, fur and leather, how-to, repair, textiles, tutorials, youtube
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