A new creative journey has been embarked upon!!🫣. I am very excited to share it with you and I hope you will be as mesmerized by the whole process as I am🌿🍃 In July 2023 I attended a Botanical Dyeing course in Johannesburg, presented by […]
10 days before our trip to the United States on 31 May 2023, I got a new addition to my fleet of looms. An Ashford 16-shaft table loom on a stand! It came in 2 flat pack boxes that DH and I assembled in my […]
DD and I attended the 2nd day of Wimbledon 2022. We joined The Queue at 6am (luckily DD and SIL live close by) and we received numbers indicating we were just under 2000th in the queue! People had camped overnight in small tents to be […]
I made 2 pairs of socks – a pair for DH from some wool that knits up identical socks, provided you follow the instructions and first knit one sock and then the other. I get bored very quickly when I have to knit a 2nd […]
I recently found this post in my drafts! I don’t know why I never sent it, but I guess it was the trauma of the whole period that affected me and my posts! Because it is quite long, I have split it up into multiple […]
In June 2022 I proposed two Overshot weave-alongs for the Pretoria Weavers Guild. You can read about the first one here. The second one is a Baby Coverlet from Handwoven Sep/Oct 2021. I dyed the yarns I would need for the project in June, just […]
This is a post written in 2020, The Year That Was!!! The Pretoria Weavers Guild end-of-year meeting in November 2019 included a competition of wearables. This is a lead-up to the 70th anniversary of the Pretoria Weavers Guild Exhibition (edit – taking place in Oct/Nov […]
Christmas time has come and gone, again! And another Christmas is fast approaching!! I love making towels as gifts or small market items, whether they be tea towels, hand towels or face/wash cloths. I have not yet tried weaving a bath towel, but it defeats […]
This is a pattern from Handwoven Oct/Nov 2019 – Ask Madelyn Overshot Scarf. The warp is white and black cotton and the pattern weft is black sock wool with tabby weft the black cotton used in the warp. All the yarns were dyed by me […]
I love trying out new techniques! The latest one was a Mosaic crochet cardi from Lilla Bjorn Crochet called the Fjell Cardigan. I purchased the pattern from the designer so I could start dyeing the wool I wanted and needed to use. I used a […]
