by StaceyW | Sep 22, 2017 | Art, Education, Life, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
What a wonderful weekend has just passed! It may have rained – a lot! – and blown a bit of a gale from time to time, and also had us reaching for the woollies and puffa jackets, but the visitors turned up and the atmosphere was fabulous!! It was Journées...
by StaceyW | Aug 13, 2017 | Education, Life, Nature, textiles, Travel, Weaving
Isn’t it wonderful how one thing leads on to another? Just after publishing my Honeycomb Hybrids book this week, I was contacted by Madeleine Jude, a weaver I met a few years ago. She was a student on the Diploma course run by Handweavers’ Studio in...
by StaceyW | Jun 1, 2017 | Life, Nature, Publications, Teaching, Uncategorized, Weaving
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...
by StaceyW | May 9, 2017 | Life, Nature, Teaching, Weaving
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...
by StaceyW | Apr 17, 2017 | Art, Life, Nature
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...
by StaceyW | Mar 21, 2017 | Life, Nature
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...
