Bibliophilia

I'm sorry that the blog  is being neglected even more than usual. I'm moving right now (well I moved last weekend, but its taking a ...

My Memorial to the 29 miners who died in the Pike River Coal Mine is finished after one hundred-plus hours  of stitching over several m...

In the spirit of the crocheted coral reef I made a few years ago, I'm working on a vocabulary of stitches to represent the mosses,...

Sewing  a Woolrest into a flokati-style rug  I'm moving to a house in a few weeks. That's right, a real house with rooms with d...

A surprise in my letterbox yesterday: a beautiful little book published by Sanderson Gallery , looking back over its first 10 years.  ...

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)  ...