Bibliophilia

Last week the fragile crown on a front tooth snapped for the third time in three years.  I was eating toast, which had the crusts cut off as...

Bunting is very fashionable in the crafty-internet world and I have succumbed to its charms. These are fairly large flags that I patchwor...

There's a lot of gaps in my new house.  After years of dedicated anti-consumerism, simplicity and travelling I simply don't ow...

I have planned this pouf for at least three years.   I found the pattern online so long ago that I've lost the link and it no longer com...

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...