A New Season: A New Bag!
It’s a glorious sunny day today; spring is most definitely in the air and a new season can only mean one thing – A NEW BAG - Hooray! This cute little granny bag is guaranteed to put a spring in…
Knitted and Crochet Hearts: Six of the Best
At The Mercerie we love little projects that are quick and easy to make and we are easily seduced by a pretty crochet heart pattern! For Valentines Eve we've rounded up six lovely little knitting and crochet patterns for you…
Jack’s Back in the Norwich Lanes
Good morrow, Valentine, God bless the baker, You'll be the giver, And I'll be the taker Norfolk is a rum ole place. Cut off from the rest of the world by the North Sea, a haphazard network of single carriageways…
Knitted Sunflowers at The National Gallery
We've been rather preoccupied with knitted sunflowers recently.... A new exhibition opens in London on Saturday 25th January; for the first time in 65 years two of the 5 surviving paintings of Vincent Van Gogh’s Arles Sunflower series will be…
Crochet, Kaleidoscopes and New Beginnings
So the festivities are over and the dust has finally settled. In fact it looks so settled I think I’ll leave it in peace until it’s time for my annual and rigorous spring clean. *cough* (I think I might be…
The Little (Felt) Gingerbread Boy
I’ve been thinking about this year’s Christmas tree. Last year our homemade Christmas tree decorations melted and dripped onto the floor just as the proceeding were hotting up. They created a rather sticky mess that took well into the New…