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Tuff Socks Naturally: Ryeland the Socks

Today’s post is one in a series called Tuff Socks Naturally, an open, collaborative project exploring more sustainable alternatives to superwash and nylon in sock yarn. You can join in on the discussion, share pics and projects on this blog or Local and Bespoke or on instagram using the hashtag #tuffsocksnaturally. They are done! Knitted up and on […]

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Reading the Bones

Sometimes, knitting is divination. Like casting the bones or a tarot spread, many things can be read in a piece of knitting.  Not things to come but more Jungian type symbolic meanings giving deeper understanding of things that are. I lay before you a recently finished cowl and read from its stitches. The pattern is […]

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Other places

The Waysides project has got me thinking a lot about how we make places meaningful to us, how we get to feel at home in new places and come to know them. Like our neighbourhoods, the internet is full of places, some places we will never visit and some where we feel comfortable and welcome. […]

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