I love the challenge of making a tiny musician who not only looks like they belong on a festival stage but can also hold a fiddlestick between their hands and survive the enthusiastic handling that...
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 brought a ten-minute knitted puppet set to an acoustic folk stage,...
Shipping fragile knitted characters by train across the UK feels like sending a...
Putting together a weekend festival pop-up of limited-edition knitted folk...
I was once asked to bring a knitted mascot to a windy seaside festival and then...
I love a village fête because it’s where making and merriment meet: bunting flutters, local bands play, and children dart between stalls with...
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I still remember the first fair where I nervously pinned a price tag to a tiny hand-knitted fox and wondered if anyone would pay more than the cost...
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When I first saw Hattie Rowan’s dolls at a summer market, I was struck by the way each tiny figure seemed to carry a whole life inside its knitted...
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I often think of knitted characters as tiny actors on a patchwork stage: their stitches are costumes, their stuffing is posture, and their maker is...
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