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...
Festivals are cloth-eared to bad weather: one minute you’re under a warm sun, the next you’re sheltering from a drizzle while trying not to sit...
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I’ve sold knitted characters from a little stall at more folk festivals than I can count, and one thing I’ve learned is that what you pack can...
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I love turning old stories into small, knitted lives — the kind you can cup in your hands and send skittering across a tabletop stage. Adapting a...
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Hello — if you’ve ever watched a flock of festival-goers tighten their scarves against a wind-blown stage and wished you could bottle that tiny,...
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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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