Sleightholm Folk Art

Tag: knitting

  • Knitting in springtime

       The sun may be out, the sky blue, trees and flowers in bloom and short sleeved shirts getting pulled out of the closet but I’m still knitting! I’ve been playing around with color strand knitting, kinda sorta fair isle (what is construed as fair isle anyway? I’m not sure!). I was inspired to play…

  • Illustration inspiration: Varenka

    A long while ago Audrey and I happened into a used book store. From the shelves I pulled this old library book, some of its pages stamped “discard” and from the moment I saw it, I was in love. Published in the 70s by “Bernadette”, (later editions say Bernadette Watts)  the book Varenka tells the…

  • Blues and Greens

        Last week was a bit quiet with blogging, but that didn’t mean I wasn’t busy! I’ve been working on lots of projects, and it’s always satisfying to get things finished and sent off to where they need to be. I’m also trying to take it a *little* easy and enjoy the slowness of…