Bibliophilia

This is one of the very first exercises I tried from Clark's Needle Lace , a nontraditional net (even before the snail ). It was usef...

My first complete detatched lace motif,  8cm wide (about 3 inches). The net fillings are a sampler of different kinds of stitches. I...

Crochet lace on wet felted object Many people say they need a deadline to be productive.  I always find deadlines very limiting and to...

This post wraps up my South Island trip: in which I visit a glacier, admire weather stations, spot charismatic megafauna and visit an earthq...

Denniston lichens and mosses The day after our tour of Stockton Mine , Robin and I visited the next plateau south: Denniston. The ric...

BEFORE: Stockton Plateau, looking towards Happy Valley aka Cyprus Extension, not yet open cut but riddled with undergound mine shafts)  ...

Today is the start of my latest exhibition, Extraction on in the Window Gallery of Objectspace in Ponsonby Auckland.  The Window Galler...

I rarely do any stitching purely for personal purposes. It's so time consuming, and when I'm working on big art projects with ...

Yellowcake I sort through bags of yarn passed on by a family friend clearing out her craft stash. Ugly yellow acrylic sits on top of ...

A new project in memory of the 29 miners who died inside Pike River Coal Mine two years ago and whose bodies still lie buried in the...