This week I have been busy knitting a woollen rabbit in preparation for a ‘Retro Animals’ knitting workshop at Dragon Hall, in Norwich. Struggling with a vintage knitting pattern, my thoughts turned distinctly leporine as I considered the significance of this amusing,…

On Saturday The Mercerie hosted the first of our dressmaking workshops in Norwich, with the very brilliant Pat Hodger, and a lovely group of ‘makers’. In preparation I had decided to brush up on my own sewing skills and bought…