Putting together a weekend festival pop-up of limited-edition knitted folk characters is one of my favourite challenges: it’s equal parts design, salesmanship and storytelling. Over the years...
I was once asked to bring a knitted mascot to a windy seaside festival and then...
I once sat up late in a field behind a folk stage, socks rolled down, a mug of...
I once stood in a damp village hall, clutching a box of knitted puppets that...
When I first imagined staging a pop-up knitted character performance at a tiny...
I often get asked how to put together a short, sharp puppet performance that...
I’ve taken knitted toys to more festivals than I can count: tucked under a...
I once stood in a damp village hall, clutching a box of knitted puppets that smelled faintly of lavender and wool. That night I watched a rapt...
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When I first imagined staging a pop-up knitted character performance at a tiny summer fete, I had two things: a pocketful of hand-knit gnomes and a...
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I often get asked how to put together a short, sharp puppet performance that still feels rich and rooted in folk tradition. Recently I set myself the...
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I’ve taken knitted toys to more festivals than I can count: tucked under a stall table during a rainstorm, stacked on a dusty bench between sets,...
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I still remember the first time I knit something meant to be seen from the other side of a festival field: a plucky, oversized hedgehog mascot with a...
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I remember the first time I set up a two-hour pop-up performance of knitted puppets at a summer folk festival: a soggy field, a tiny crowd gathered...
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Rain at a summer folk festival is as inevitable as an accordion tune — charming in theory, a nuisance in practice. Over the years I’ve learned...
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When someone asks me, "How much should I charge for custom knitted character commissions at a folk festival?" my mind immediately flips between yarn...
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I’ve recently fallen into a new kind of craft: shaping my game around the right padel tennis racket. It might sound odd coming from someone who...
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I make a lot of small characters. Tiny hands, tilted caps, and button eyes multiply quickly across my needlework basket, and so does the yarn bill....
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