Bibliophilia

I can't even begin to express how stressful and frustrating it is to have lost my internet connection at home. I've already missed ...

Scraps jar- thread ends and the tiniest trimmings of fabric Like an ice core drilled out of the Antarctic to reveal climate change through m...

And I shall go into a hare by Jane Siddall . Definitely my favourite piece in the show. I made a rare excursion out of Hamilton this week, v...

The underside of blanket stitched islands This is the last glimpse anyone will ever have of the back side of Antarctica, now completely stra...

Elephant Island (foreground) where the Endurance crew waited for months while Shackleton worked desperately to rescue them Winter has set i...

At exactly three pm on Thursday, 3 June, as I made the last blanket stitch on the Antarctic continent, the needle slipped and scratched my f...

One of the simple pleasures that I find most soothing from day-to-day is doing the dishes. Arriving at my pro-dishes stance came late in li...

Many Antarctica observers remark how the extraordinarily clear dry atmosphere, white on white environment, and months of nonstop daylight, ...

I did a final padding out of my Antarctic contours before stitching on the sea level blanket. I cut careful slits through the back layers a...

On May 12 1970 this baby-faced family boarded a plane from Winnipeg, Canada to Hamilton, New Zealand, and forty years later three of us are ...

Looking out to sea from behind the South Pole My long search for an appropriate blanket to use as the background of the Southern Ocean is fi...

Blogging bonus- I'm featured today on the Simple Elements blog , where I was asked about what inspires me.

Looking down from the polar plateau across the Ronne Ice Shelf to the Antarctica Peninsula. My dear friend, Harmony, enquired today after my...

My paid job goes full time for a couple of weeks. I'm not sure I'll want to do much blogging in my own time.

Every day I go outside and collect the ripe feijoas that have fallen from the neighbour's tree onto this side of the fence. The feijoa...