Episode 22 of the podcast is now live. The podcasts will be available on iTunes, PlayerFM and other podcast catchers within 24 hours. As always, you can find me on Instagram. As life has definitely not gone to plan these past two months and focused making has been in the doldrums, this podcast is a bit of a tangling [...]

Episode 21 of the podcast is now live. The podcasts will be available on iTunes, PlayerFM and other podcast catchers within 24 hours. As always, you can find me on Instagram. I am also on Ravelry but have not been particularly active there since the re-brand due to migraines. If you want to follow my pottery journey, including the launch [...]

Episode 20 of the podcast is now live. The podcasts will be available on iTunes, PlayerFM and other podcast catchers within 24 hours. As always, you can find me on Instagram and Ravelry. If you want to follow my pottery journey, including the launch of my online shop, you can follow me on my separate pottery Instagram feed. Revisiting the Tonnach [...]

Episode 19 of the podcast is now live. The podcasts will be available on iTunes, PlayerFM and other podcast catchers within 24 hours. As always, you can find me on Instagram and Ravelry. As we live through unusual times, I’ve noticed several things about my making. The familiar There is definitely a retreat to familiar. In my knitting I am embracing [...]

Our small patio garden has been my happy place since we moved here, and even more so since I developed fibromyalgia and my world shrunk. As lockdown measures have kicked in due to COVID-19 and access to the outside world has contracted even further, my funny little garden space has become even more important. Although [...]

Although I am a self-confessed homebody and enjoy a pretty quiet life, I do miss the informal meet-ups and chats over tea or wine that have become impossible due to the COVID-19 pandemic lock-down. So I thought I would pop by for an impromptu extra episode of Mrs M’s Scrapbook. This bonus episode sees me in [...]

The second instalment of Mrs M’s Scrapbook is now live, and this month it comes from the fabric chest and wool pantry. I had wanted to make a start on a couple of tailoring projects this year: Merchant & Mill’s Strand Coat and Closet Case Pattern’s Jasika Jacket, but I’ve been in a bit of sewing funk [...]

Episode 18 of the podcast is now live. The podcasts will be available on iTunes, PlayerFM and other podcast catchers within 24 hours. As always, you can find me on Instagram and Ravelry. Nylon-free sock experiment update In this episode I report on the first two years of my sock experiment. In year one I knit test pairs [...]

Instalment one of Mrs M’s Scrapbook is now live. This scrapbook starts in the garden for very specific reasons.  Although gardening is not the first activity people think of when we mention craft or making, for me it is very much an act of slow creative making. A canvas on which I can enquire about and work [...]