Book Review: The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine by Rozsika Parker
The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine by Rozsika Parker It isn’t often that a book changes your life, much less so a book which isn’t a…
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Book Review: 200 Fair Isle Designs by Mary Mucklestone
200 Fair Isle Designs: Knitting Charts, Combination Designs, and Colour Variations, by Mary Mucklestone A couple of years ago I had a hankering to make my own Fair Isle sweater,…
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Book Review: How To Use, Adapt and Design Sewing Patterns
How to Use, Adapt, and Design Sewing Patterns: From store-bought patterns to drafting your own: a complete guide to fashion sewing with confidence, by Lee Hollahan The aim of this…
Read moreBook Review: The Quilt Story (a children’s book about moving, meaning and memory!)
After Kate’s book review last week about the textiles of the arts & crafts movement, I feel a bit low brow with my selection for my review of the month…
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Book Review: Textiles of the Arts and Crafts Movement by Linda Parry
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful” is perhaps the most famous adage spoken and written by William Morris.…
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Hedgerow by John Wright – A River Cottage Handbook
Hedgerow – River Cottage Handbook No.7 by John Wright How often do we sit in front of the TV watching chefs and survival specialists forage the harvest that abounds in…
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The UN Peace Rug
Our fabulous volunteer Zelda – who does ESL teaching within a special group of our current community project (a Wood street area secret, hee hee hee!) – spotted this amazing…
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Knits Men Want
My name is Deb’s and I live in Wood Street ward. I have been knitting for so long I can’t remember when I started! I do remember knitting (or rather…
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“Cut-loose Quilts” with a tenuous link to cheese making
Years ago, on a somewhat random day trip, a not-unfamiliar occurrence foreshadowed my future founding of Significant Seams. As my partner met with a sequestered nun to learn how to…
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