Posted by My lovely mum died just before Christmas, and in the days and weeks after her death, once the organising and paperwork slowed and then stopped, I had a need to fill my evenings with something (anything) to fill the space of her loss. I wasn’t ready to get back to work, but felt the pull…Read more »
Posted by The first memory quilt I ever made came into being almost by accident. My mum was moving, from the home we grew up in – a much extended 5 bedroom semi halfway up a hill, to a smaller 2 bedroom house at the bottom of the hill. Our gran, Mum’s mum – was a woman who kept EVERYTHING…Read more »
Posted by I have always loved a good story. And a good storyteller. Both offer the possibilities of being carried away for a while into another world, another time, another life. Patchwork, done well, done in the old way, can be both the storyteller and the story. I first learnt the art and story of patchwork in the…Read more »
Posted by Money talks in our world of *broken? Buy another* doesn’t it? Or so I thought. When I first found out about pay as you feel, the idea just felt so right. Paying what you feel an item is worth to *you* is so revolutionary and yet so ancient. The part of my soul that belongs…Read more »
Posted by When I was 17 I longed for a life of creating. Making handmade greetings cards and little hand crafted gifts for family and friends brought me such joy. Writing poetry and short stories and longer stories and gardening. I knew the things that made me happy. Being out in nature, loosing myself in reading and writing,…Read more »
