On this blog I hope to share my projects and things which inspire me and keep me occupied when I'm not dancing.
I got into textiles by accident. Having absolutely loathed sewing and the like at school I avoided anything to do with yarn or embroidery until my early twenties. Then a backpacking trip round Ireland introduced me to Irish crochet and I was hooked.
Sadly the ability to crochet left me when I crossed the sea back to England (weird! I know) but I still enjoyed messing round with yarn and took up knitting instead.
About 10 years ago I got involved with historical re-enactment and discovered that I could sew after all. Having made all my kit by hand I was overcome with the urge to decorate it, so taught myself to embroider and tablet weave. Then I decided that buying yarn wasn't authentic enough for me so I learnt to spin with a drop spindle and played around with natural dyes to get some colour into the yarns I was making.
Now that my life has been taken over by Tribal Bellydance I have extended my passion into ethnic textiles and I have learnt mirror embroidery, tassel making, beading etc so that I can restore or create costume pieces to add to my dance dowry.
There are so many things I want to make or recreate but sadly I have a butterfly brain and tend to flit from one thing to another. My craft room is full of unfinished projects and things that will be 'useful for something' so hopefully writing this blog will help me to focus and finish what I start.
So if you see me add another project page before the last one is done shout at me.
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