I’ve taken knitted toys to more festivals than I can count: tucked under a stall table during a rainstorm, stacked on a dusty bench between sets, stuffed into a rucksack on a coach home. After a...
I still remember the first time I knit something meant to be seen from the...
I remember the first time I set up a two-hour pop-up performance of knitted...
Rain at a summer folk festival is as inevitable as an accordion tune —...
When someone asks me, "How much should I charge for custom knitted character...
I’ve recently fallen into a new kind of craft: shaping my game around the...
I make a lot of small characters. Tiny hands, tilted caps, and button eyes...
Rain at a summer folk festival is as inevitable as an accordion tune — charming in theory, a nuisance in practice. Over the years I’ve learned...
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When someone asks me, "How much should I charge for custom knitted character commissions at a folk festival?" my mind immediately flips between yarn...
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I’ve recently fallen into a new kind of craft: shaping my game around the right padel tennis racket. It might sound odd coming from someone who...
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I make a lot of small characters. Tiny hands, tilted caps, and button eyes multiply quickly across my needlework basket, and so does the yarn bill....
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When a folk tale is told at a festival it breathes, twists, and grows with every voice. Translating that living, wandering story into a knit pattern...
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I’ve run a pop-up repair and mending station at handfuls of folk festivals and maker markets, and each time I set up I’m reminded how much people...
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There’s a special rhythm to a multi-stage folk festival that I’ve come to know well: the beat of sets overlapping, the rise and fall of a crowd...
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I teach children folk stories through simple knitted puppets because nothing brings a tale to life quite like a small character you can hold and...
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I sell knitted characters and little festival-ready gifts from a small stall at outdoor folk gatherings across the UK, so packaging isn’t just a...
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When I set out to design a knitted character inspired by a particular region’s folk identity, I don’t start with a stitch pattern — I start...
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