I’ve spent many festival weekends with a tote of knitted characters tucked under my arm, dodging campfire smoke, mud, and the perpetual hug-induced dampness of enthusiastic folk-festival crowds....
Why I wanted a smell-proof knitted companionI've made dozens of small knitted...
Rain is the festival’s uninvited guest: one minute you’re arranging a tiny...
I first wondered whether a single knit pattern could become a festival series...
I love the challenge of making a tiny musician who not only looks like they...
I learned to collect folktales at summer festivals, notebook balanced on my...
I’ve been hauling projects and a battered project bag to fields, village...
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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When a folk tale is told at a festival it breathes, twists, and grows with every voice. Translating that living, wandering story into a knit pattern...
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