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incongruent inheritance

There is something poignant about finding myself back where I began. Not in a dramatic, cinematic way; more in the way you open a drawer you haven’t looked in for years and think, oh… yes, yes this makes sense entirely, you again, welcome and thank you please… I’ve been crocheting mostly presents. BLANKETS for people I care about, stitched in between work and study and stress and worry and the general swirl of life. And somehow, without planning it, I’ve looped right back to baby blankets, the very thing that started this whole crochet obsession in the first place. It feels like an inheritance I didn’t consciously choose, more like one that chose…

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April 14, 2026
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juxtaposed junction

I do not feel happy when I feel cold. If you know me, the most frequently said phrase of mine, you can confirm, is: 'I don't do cold! The minute I get a cold nose, I get grumpy... ' Don't ask me why, I just am. That is how it is. HOWEVER As always, there is a clause... I want to dedicate this post to a trip I completed recently, which negates the above statement and brings a little bit of nuance to me and my experiences and to my tolerance for distress... One of my friends, who is a total outdoor admirer says something that maybe, just maybe, made me think a…

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March 1, 2026
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lace lingers

Continuing on my last STARRY eyed post looking up to heavens for answers to the nature of our being, I want to bring us down to Earth, back to our bodies and embodied experiences (don't yawn yet, it gets deeper). I want to look at the connections we create and continue in our making. The themes that keep us going, in fact propel our creativity forward. Other people To be precise, the important adults that shaped us as kids. It would have been your 89th birthday this year, and I miss you now more than ever. As I was frantically making star shaped blankets for all my friends, I looked at them one…

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January 12, 2026
Read more about the article magnetar mastery
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magnetar mastery

"I am Stardust gathered fleetingly into form." - Laini Taylor Stars! There are many people who liken our being to stars, including Joni Mitchell and Jostein Gaarder (read HERE). A magnetar is a type of neutron star with a powerful magnetic field, the strongest in the universe. I don't know, I cannot say, why the STAR Crochet blanket pattern has captivated my mind and hands recently. I do not know. I found it by chance, randomly seeing someone posting about a 6-day crochet-along blanket. It kept popping up. So I found the pattern HERE and HERE started... I am including a YouTube tutorial below, very helpful for us visual learners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhPSXvp3Dqk I made…

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November 15, 2025
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gaseous giant

Retrospectively REWRITTEN DUE TO TECHNICAL Difficulties in 2026... Some blankets begin as ideas. Others begin as feelings. Gaseous Giant began as a room: the one Rose McGowan used at the Edinburgh Festival that year, washed in deep blues, warm oranges, and that quiet sense of outer‑space vastness. I remember sitting there, noticing how the colours held the air, how they made the space feel both expansive and safe. Something in me recognised that palette instantly. Sci‑fi skies. Nebula edges. The kind of colours I’ve always gravitated toward without needing to explain why. When I got home, I reached for leftover yarns and started with a simple square. Nothing ambitious. Just a way to…

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June 4, 2020
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woolly warriors

Wondrous Women – Warm Wanderers So, it is finished. It is now time to write the story of another "thoughts-in-knots" blanket which i recently realised are the core of my current creative crochet work. The process of making these free-form crochet blankets helps me considerably when organising my thoughts.. It started with my Nan's work. I have been given these amazing leaves, pictured below, made by my grandma. The idea together with encouragement for Nan crocheting these maple leaves came from my mum, after having been surrounded by grandma's crochet work for the majority of both my mum's and my life... After completing my last thoughts-in-knots adventure with my Rainbow coloured Chevron Crochet…

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April 16, 2019