Honeycomb Hybrids has arrived!!
Thank you for all the wonderful messages I have received this week about Honeycomb Hybrids: Honeycomb For All Tastes! I only hope that the book will live up to your obviously high expectations!! Here is the ordering information I promised you last week. I am offering...
Honeycomb Hybrids – publication in late July!!
I am so excited to be announcing the imminent publication of my new book Honeycomb Hybrids: Honeycomb for All Tastes, a technical book uncovering the many facets of honeycomb (also known as distorted weft). It will be launched later this month (July) and I hope that...
Silver Needles Cone Winder – Review
Over the past week, I have been intermittently working with a newly arrived piece of kit - the cone winder from Silver Needles. It is an amazing little machine, very sensitive, but very useful. I knew that I would need to try several different yarns to test out...
June – and the Good Life!
We are certainly learning how to live the good life here in France. The blossom was delightful a month or so ago and now our 6 cherry trees are producing an abundance of delicious fruit! The previous owners of La Tuilerie obviously loved the house and garden as...
May – and advances on all fronts!
May - and things are hotting up fast!! Firstly, may I introduce you to Bailey? He's our poster boy today! Bailey is a labrador X (not sure whether with Beagle or with a spaniel of some kind!) and is just 4 months old. We had been missing Charlie, who had to be put...
Spring has sprung – with a vengeance!
Just a week ago, if you had told me that Spring would arrive and transform our garden from winter's silhouettes into verdant flower and leaf, I would have laughed disbelievingly! But this is just what has happened! Last week the trees outside our house were twigs -...
Guilty as Charged, M’lud!
I have been told off! Not once, but twice and on successive days! What can I say but sorry, and I will try to do better!! First came the email from a weaving friend in the US - "Have you dropped off the face of the earth, or did you actually move to France? What is...
The Loom Room move to France
Every day is a really exciting day at the moment! Each day my workshop becomes a little more like a weaving workshop. But it didn't start out that way! Our main move was on 4/5 January. All was going swimmingly. We had managed to pack the van (a transit) really well...
Countdown to……. A New Life
Have you noticed how many people now countdown days/sleeps before an event? It seems to be a marketing phenomena that has caught on with the general public. Generally I can't stand the idea of people wishing away their lives through counting down one more day until...