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All week I've been trying to find the right 'opportunities' to photograph this properly: ie, on an actual child, preferably the one for whom it was intended. But it hasn't happened. Along with all those blog posts I write in... Continue reading

Posted Jun 6, 2013 at six and a half stitches

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floating

Allow me, Briefly, To indulge, In the opportunities to make and craft For small babies. To indulge [] In the fine softness of charcoal grey cashmere teamed with Nani Iro double gauze for a simple cot or stroller quilt To... Continue reading

Posted Apr 5, 2013 at six and a half stitches

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peach sorbet

I had waited for yesterday for what seems like months and months. A beautiful warm spring day, sunshine pouring through windows and seeping into crevices. No immediate deadlines, and nothing pressing that I could do anything about at that particular... Continue reading

Posted Nov 15, 2012 at six and a half stitches

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0Oo.

Just over a year ago I came across and pinned this image, and my heart leapt. It's an image of an art installation by New York artist Jacob Hashimoto titled "Silence Still Gverns Our Consciousness". You can see more images... Continue reading

Posted Nov 2, 2012 at six and a half stitches

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yellow o dot

I'm not a one project kind of person - I like to have numerous projects on the go at any one time, to be picked up and worked on as time and desire takes hold. I like long term projects,... Continue reading

Posted Oct 28, 2012 at six and a half stitches

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pop | !

It was obvious, as the first warmth of sprng air hit our lungs, that a summer dress was needed. It was obvious, also, that a trip to the fabric store would be needed, to fulfill a burning need [mine] for... Continue reading

Posted Oct 14, 2012 at six and a half stitches

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[BIG]rubble

...finally....FINALLY I can share [BIG]rubble with you all...the adult version of my children's pattern 'rubble'. So, so so so SO many of you asked for it, and it was always my intention to have had it done before now, but,... Continue reading

Posted Sep 18, 2012 at six and a half stitches

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Membrane

membranes.... wrapped around fences, construction sites bodies thick and warm, an outer layer, a jacket, a wrap a deep fold in the middle, a gentle stretch and twist, a generous oversized shape a delicious mix of fibres [alpaca and wool]... Continue reading

Posted Sep 12, 2012 at six and a half stitches

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after a while

Ok, so you've finished your project - and as you cast off you've planned the blog post, planned the photos, your excitement growing for showing this project off, the comments come in with your castoffblogpost and you are literally flush... Continue reading

Posted Aug 15, 2012 at six and a half stitches

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wanderings

I've been wandering. [For quiet a while it seems] In and out of laneways. In and out of peoples houses, some I know, some unknown; me, a mere guest within their walls, enjoying the breathless beauty of rolling hills, hidden... Continue reading

Posted Jun 26, 2012 at six and a half stitches

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May 17, 2012

dipped | egg

A little bit of colour into a monochromatic home...I do love a little flash of colour, and I'm loving some of the stark neon colour mixes and combinations around at the moment, heavily inspired by the Koskela showroom I admit.... Continue reading

Posted Mar 21, 2012 at six and a half stitches

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small stacks

i [] Herringbone Cowl in Blue Sky Alpaca Worsted Hand Dyes ii [] Un-named pattern under construction in Brooklyn Tweed Shelter iii [] Neighbourly in Cascade Eco Yarn Oh it's so hard to concentrate on actual real work at the... Continue reading

Posted May 12, 2011 at six and a half stitches

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written

random images random words random pieces of writing which mean nothing except days filled with exploration. holidays in new playgrounds running from one end to the other exploring equipment, climbing, jumping, kicking a ball and catching up with friends -... Continue reading

Posted May 5, 2011 at six and a half stitches

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DAPPLED LIGHT

A new school year starts and I am reminded how often we walk through forrests, clinging to barely there light, seeking our way forward, stumbling at times over branches, stopping momentarily to catch our breathe and listen to a far... Continue reading

Posted Feb 1, 2011 at six and a half stitches

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SILVER | JOY

I would like to thank each of you who took the time to leave a comment, and share with me your fabric and yarn choices. I smiled with each email I opened - such lovely combinations that might make there... Continue reading

Posted Dec 24, 2010 at six and a half stitches

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A SONG OF SILVER

Cast your mind back a few months. To about October. Or September [that long, really?]. I have had the following words that I wrote following me and haunting me "I'm really hoping to have it released in the next week,... Continue reading

Posted Dec 21, 2010 at six and a half stitches

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BLOOM

My first productive day in what seems like forever. My first day to just plough through some projects which have suddenly become quite necessary to get done, and get done quickly, pushed against my own time deadlines. i | The... Continue reading

Posted Sep 20, 2010 at six and a half stitches

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INTROSPECTION

I wonder how it comes to be September. And yet this month I feel I have lived every minute of the month, and it must surely be the end, not the middle. I've thought long and hard through this month.... Continue reading

Posted Sep 16, 2010 at six and a half stitches

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SILVER | SILVER

There I was hoping that the balance would return, and instead my week has swept to a complete other extreme, and the pendulum dropped me some place where I feel tired, drained, flat and a little lost. Momentarily. All things... Continue reading

Posted Sep 1, 2010 at six and a half stitches

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NURTURE

On a wet winter day, Pia and I spent a bit of time doing a little photoshoot in our corridor. She twisted, and she turned. She jumped, and she sat. And then she started doing 'my' poses - copying all... Continue reading

Posted Jul 28, 2010 at six and a half stitches

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2

2 days. 2 days and all the work I've been doing over the last few months will reach a point of culmination. In the best kind of way. All my pieces for the Finders Keepers 'Winterland' markets are done, and... Continue reading

Posted Jul 27, 2010 at six and a half stitches

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THE QUIET HOUR

Finally. Months of thinking, knitting, writing, photographing. Finally. The quiet hour is upon us. A time when the full moon sines, glinting and glistening to the world below, caught silver strands on tree branches and wires, a world in silhouette.... Continue reading

Posted Jun 13, 2010 at six and a half stitches

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THEORIES

If you followed a line, followed it's progression, where would it lead...should you know the answer before you set out Or should you open yourself up to possibility. I decided to take a deep breathe, and open up to possibility.... Continue reading

Posted Apr 30, 2010 at six and a half stitches

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Leggings: 6.5st Top: 6.5st Wool shorts: zara kids. The sweetest most adorable shorts for winter...

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