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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...
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Why I wanted a smell-proof knitted companionI've made dozens of small knitted characters for festivals, market stalls, and quiet evenings at home....
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Rain is the festival’s uninvited guest: one minute you’re arranging a tiny woollen fiddler on a gingham cloth, the next you’re tucking...
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I first wondered whether a single knit pattern could become a festival series the year I made a tiny fox for a friend’s birthday and ended up with...
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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...
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I’ve been hauling projects and a battered project bag to fields, village greens and muddy festival carparks for most of my life. After more than a...
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I once sat up late in a field behind a folk stage, socks rolled down, a mug of lukewarm tea in one hand and a half-finished knitted gnome in the...
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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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