Creative practices of a textile artist from Queensland, Australia. Now living in Somerset, England.
Tag Archives: Winter
Crocheted Eye of Rainbow Providences
A recent series of crochet rainbows and all-seeing eyes. Continue reading
Posted in Crochet & Knitting, Re-use, Sewing, Textiles, Works in progress
Tagged All Seeing Eye, Amigurumi, cardigan patch, crochet, Do It Yourself, Eye of Providence, Freeform Crochet, Handmade Fashion, Rainbow Crochet, Rainbows, reduce reuse recycle, secondhand clothing, Slow Fashion, tiny houses, van life, Wearable Art, Winter, Woolcraft
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Digging, sifting, pruning in Portugal
Further helpxing in Pombal, Portugal. Digging pools and making friends. Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Travelling
Tagged DIY, Europe, gardening, hard yakka, Helpx, nature, pools, Portugal, Practical Skills, Travel, Vila Colina, Winter, Workaway, Yuccas
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Frozen wonderland, aka last days in Somerset
Winter is here and life in Somerset is icy. A few nights have dipped below zero (Celsius). While we have piled up all the knitted blankets, shawls, sleeping bags and doonas from storage and are cosy under them at nights, … Continue reading
Posted in Somerset, Travelling
Tagged boondocking, frost, frozen, Somerset, Travelling, UK, vanliving, wildcamping, Winter
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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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Blanket stitch shawl, simple reuse design tutorial
I made a woollen shawl from a blanket, here is the DIY tutorial for how to make your own. Continue reading
Posted in Crafternoons, Experiments, How-to, Re-use, Textiles, Travelling, Works in progress
Tagged Blanket Stitch, Clothing, DIY, handmade, Recycle, Reuse, sewing, Shawl, textiles, Tutorial, Winter, youtube
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