Bibliophilia

Detail of Blizzard, a work in progress Today I finished the stitching part of my Blizzard. There's still work to be done to mount it, b...

In between the very substantial pieces I'm working on, I've done a little experiment in the other direction. This is what blanket st...

My embroidered tessarolax fossil (framed) is now part of a wonderful art for Christchurch fundraising project called Many as One , organised...

Felted test of reds before stitching, sitting on blended greens before felting I'm very comfortable working with an Antarctic colour sch...

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. ...