Degree show set up with my wonderful mum as a second pair of hands

top to bottom: 1, 2, 3.  Felting trials to see which fleece felts best and the different qualities: texture, colour, density, and ease o...

Second trip to get fleece from the Aladdin's Cave of the Wool Grower's depot. See what I mean about the wonderful huge bins full o...

Teasing and Carding Moorit: a lovely warm brown with sun-bleached tips that occurs naturally in some sheep breads. This is my chosen co...

 Lovely long rods for building a Bender... Watch this space!

My loom and film installation is on view in the New Highland Contemporaries 2 exhibition in Nairn this week!  For details of times and da...

Boro - with a difference I first saw this idea on pinterest (while hunting for images of fabric boro) in a fascinating picture of Japa...

Stitching the silk warp Silk warp waterfall Today I finished warping up my hand-spun silk projector screen and stabilising the top ...

It's just over two years since I began mending my one pair of jeans. The first two patches were over the kneecaps: on the left knee i...

But hopefully not a tangled one.... First three lines of weft going in! Many technical hitches are emerging and the usefulness of doing pr...

The red shed strand has worked wonderfully in the visual sense. The contrast between wood, wool and cotton is visually poetic and satisfying...

For several years I have habitually chucked my coppers into an old vase as I like to be able to close my purse easily and never can be do...

Warp weighted loom I am moving! The hours and hours of spinning have gathered my thoughts into a strong thread that I can trace out in m...

Fragility Elderberry cordial My jeans are fragile after lots of wild-food gathering this autumn. Scrambling through brambles and hea...

Sorting through my fabric stash I re-found a bag labeled 'cleaning rags' in my Nanna's handwriting. Several of the pieces have ...

I am settling into "Studio Practice" at Moray School of Art; it's starting to feel like I'm heading in an interesting dire...

L to R - black turtle beans and rusty tacks; spice tea and tacks; steamed walnuts; steamed black turtle beans. We are doing printi...