I have previously drawn attention to things fitting neatly and unexpectedly together on the craft front, but this is an example of particular beauty and joy. It relates to the Puncetto Valsesiano I posted about on Wednesday. Now I have been having quite a bit of difficulty this week; I&
I had never heard of Puncetto Valsesiano till yesterday; which is perhaps not surprising. I know a fair bit about needle lace in general, but there is such a huge variety of needle laces that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to know about them all. And the first
Getting hold of three kilogrammes of jute twine should really not be complicated. Yes, I'm well aware that's a lot of twine; the feature photo shows only one of those kilogrammes. But the drama group is going to need a lot of netting, so that'
I'm eternally amazed at the way all the things I do mesh together, even though it happens all the time. So it's quite hard to pick a point where this sequence of events can be said to have started, but let's say it was
I'm going to start by saying I've never done any tatting... yet. I've certainly thought about it. Every so often I see a tatting shuttle for sale and think "h'mm, maybe some time". But I already know other methods of
If you move in online craft circles, you will probably find a number of Americans mourning the demise of Joann's, which was a large fabric and haberdashery chain - apparently a very good one. Exactly the same thing is happening in the SCA, because, of course, a lot
I think - I hope - I have finally done the last lot of edits on the script; for one thing the group will need plenty of time to rehearse it (it didn't help that most of the main wheels in the group were away for lengthy and
It's one of those standard pieces of sartorial knowledge that the invention of the bra early in the 20th century was what killed the corset. Standard, but... as it turns out, almost completely wrong. Let me talk a bit about what really did happen. Let's start
When you make a lot of earrings, and every pair is unique, you necessarily have a lot of beads. This post is partly going to be about organising the beads themselves, but mostly about organising the web shop, which has been a bit of a headache of late; but let&
I may have mentioned recently that I've got too big for my going-out bras; and there are some people on the Discord crafts server I'm on who are interested in bra-making. So it suddenly occurred to me that, now I had a couple of officially dead
These are the Pilot Parallel calligraphy pens; and the short summary is they're very good... but there's a bit more to it than that, because there always is. I got them out on Monday night, feeling in need of something to calm me down as I&
As I briefly mentioned the other day, ten days ago my white dupatta met with a fatal accident. It somehow got caught in the rear wheel of my mobility scooter (I can't think how, as it wasn't especially long and it was wrapped around me), ripping