inspiration

Much waffle about deprivation indicators and a picture of a hungry Phoebs. This really is a weaving blog, I promise.

Visualising social statistics through weave? Yes, and sock-knitting.

Thinking about themes. And double weave!

Research hat or sunhat?

The cat and the mood board (not in that order) get a wee blog post.

Is it under the bed? Down the back of the sofa?

Hanging out in bookshops and libraries, accidentally finding inspiration.

In summer 2011 I took part in this weaving design challenge organised by New Zealand weaver Meg Nakagawa. Here I reveal the work I was inspired to create.

Some of the P2P2 participants have already made adventurous beginnings — you can see a chronology of the project if you visit this post on Meg’s blog — but I am still acclimatising. In order to facilitate that acclimatisation I … Read More

My atlas is a bit out of date. For instance, should one wish to look at a map of Kyrgyzstan*, one finds that Kyrgyzstan isn’t there — just the Kyrgyz SSR. And apparently it isn’t necessary to mark the boundaries … Read More