Bibliophilia

What a week! Even at this safe distance, the emotional turmoil of bearing witness to Christchurch's earthquake and aftermath is drainin...

I can normally go for days, even weeks, without paying any attention to the news, but all too often lately a disaster which touches my world...

Still Life: Inside the Antarctic Huts of Scott and Shackleton is a magnificent book of haunting photographs by Jane Ussher. Not since Pon...

The blue/green blanket stash I've been on a binge of building up my materials stash for all the work I have planned for the coming month...

Bibliophilia has become a bit of a misnomer for this blog over the past few years as book arts have taken a back seat to textiles as my favo...

Oil slick on ice This week marks the beginning of my seventh year blogging on Bibliophilia. Some 750 posts over six years have traced the d...

i love my collection of old wooden spools, even if the thread tends to snap on the machine Here are the results of Thursday's 12 hour ma...

I made eight jars of chutney using the plums from my parent's tree. I'm not sure the chutney is going to taste so great, but I rea...

I was given a beautiful, blue, very sharp, paring knife. It puts all my other knives to shame, so yesterday I cut my finger while peeling po...

There are a few memes floating around the internet urging people to share influential books from their childhood or recent reading lives. ...

Colour tests for underwater iceberg I am beginning to make a new iceberg. This one will include the 80% of the iceberg hidden below the wate...

Look what was inside the enormous box of goodies sent by my delightful internet buddy, Helen Lehndorf , a talented poet , crafter , perform...

Welcome to my Open Studio. My Open Studio was a great success. Plenty of people came along, and most of them weren't even friends or fa...

I like the juxtaposition of beautiful old architecture against the tall shiny buildings. Not so much the murky Yarra. Some of the best momen...