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Art, Entropy and a Bobble Knit Bangle
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…
The Folklore Shawl CAL
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…
Crochet, Penelope and the Art of Unmaking
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…
Crochet Flowers for Memories
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…
Crochet Shawls, Strangers and other Norwich Stuff
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…
Colour Stories and Chromatophobia
Do you suffer with Chromatophobia? What’s your relationship with colour like? Are you slightly afraid of it; not really sure how to approach it in case you do, or say, the wrong thing? Or are you living a comfortably safe…