This pattern was originally published in Debbie Bliss Coastlines and the Debbie Bliss Knitting Magazine Spring / Summer 2009 and is now available for free on the Prima site.

This pattern was originally published in Debbie Bliss Coastlines and the Debbie Bliss Knitting Magazine Spring / Summer 2009 and is now available for free on the Prima site.

Just posted the pictures of the knitted Easter eggs that I've made up for the Studio. My girls chose the colours (the blue colourway is apparently for our dog Theo) and can't wait until I bring them back home.
My Mother was an interior decorator (now retired, though still actively redecorating) and my sisters will likely laugh if you say the words 'green is forgiving' to them. Mom used to say this when we were discussing how to use greens in a room. The premise is that because we are used to seeing many different greens together in nature - think the different tones of green on one leaf alone - we accept mixing them much more readily than other colours.
For those of you not tied into our Facebook and Twitter pages, we've created a 'Sustainable Stitchers' group on meetup.com.
I’ve been an ebay-er for a while and infamously (in my family) bought my Vera Wang wedding dress second hand in 2001. I also enjoy collecting vintage needlework tools, patterns and materials from ebay and recently found a lovely bulk auction for mother of pearl buttons. The wooden spools and vintage silk crochet threads shown below were purchased on ebay: