Indigo Fabric meets Xanthea

Coming up this month, I’m presenting a course in collaboration with Kate Ward. The course combines learning how to create special fabrics using indigo with sewing a zero waste Xanthea top. Xanthea is a zero waste pattern I published in 2021 and is my most popular pattern. It comes in 19 sizes to fit up…

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Full fibre immersion! at the KSW Fibre Craft retreat

It was a weekend immersion in all things fibre at Knit-Spin-Weave‘s annual fibre craft retreat. Last year I took my oldest daughter to the inaugural one, which you can read about here. Hummocks Station, near Snowtown in South Australia’s mid north, was the venue again; it’s a sheep station that also has accommodation. This time…

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Fibres fantastic! at the inaugural KSW Fibre Craft retreat

Gee, I’m so fortunate to go on not one but two road trips this month (and even more fortunate to get back from Mary Quant before Victoria’s lockdown). On the weekend, my daughter and I went to Knit-Spin-Weave‘s inaugural Fibre Craft Retreat. Neither of us had been on a craft retreat before. The venue was…

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