Sleightholm Folk Art

Tag: knitting

  • New Year, New Decade, New Creations

    New Year, New Decade, New Creations

    Happy New Year, friends! Before us lies a completely fresh year, full of opportunities, adventures, and new things to learn. Over the last few months, I’ve felt a bit of restlessness and ‘painter’s block’, with my well of inspiration seeming to have run dry. After a long break however, and some adventures not too far…

  • Creativity & Community

    Creativity & Community

    Master Weaver Kate Smith and Illustrator/Icon Tasha Tudor work together to harvest flax for spinning. Each year they’d get together for several days to work together on their craft.     Lately I’ve been having really good conversations with friends. About our feeling that something is missing….lost but perhaps not unretrievable. Something many of us…

  • New Painting: Knitting Lessons

       Hello friends, and good afternoon!~           I have a new little painting I’d like to share with you. It began really with just an idea…a mother teaching her daughter to knit….and it took me on quite an adventure! I was interested in creating an interior that was a little different…