For several weeks now I’ve been thinking rather a lot about shawls; their history, their function and their design potential I’ve written before about The Norwich Shawl and it’s glorious history. Queen Victoria commissioned two Norwich shawls after admiring them at…
I may have mentioned this before…but I really don’t look forward to winter. I turn the clocks back with a heavy hand, and heart, making mental calculations of how many weeks until spring. Yes, I know that Autumn can be…
I'm so excited!! I'm going to be running The Mercerie's very first CAL project in 2016 - and it's going to be our gorgeous Folklore Shawl. WAHAY!! It will be launching in the new year as a series of 4…
Close your eyes and imagine the joy of seeing a new design emerge, and that buzz of excitement when it’s finally complete, and it is more beautiful than the picture you’ve held in your mind for so long. This is…
I am getting increasingly excited about Yarndale this year, and one of the things I am most looking forward to is seeing the display of knitted and crocheted Flowers for Memories. Just as the mandalas did last year, these flowers…
If you head north east out of London for about a hundred miles, just before you get to the North Sea, you’ll find Norwich; a fine city. Once an impenetrable gated community, Norwich is now circumnavigated by the ring road…