I’ve travelled to more folk festivals than I can count, often with a pair of needles and a tiny knitted mascot tucked into my bag. Over the years I’ve learned that designing a festival mascot...
I once turned a local folk legend — a moonlit fisherwoman who could coax fish...
I’ve learnt the hard way that a beautiful knitted character can be ruined in...
When I began planning a little series of knitted characters for a summer market...
I run short, joyful workshops for children at village fêtes a lot — knitted...
I often get asked how I turn a whispered folk tale heard at the back of a...
I set up my first pay-what-you-can yarn-mending stall at a midsummer folk...
When I began planning a little series of knitted characters for a summer market stall, I naively thought I could order tiny custom-dye runs from a...
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I run short, joyful workshops for children at village fêtes a lot — knitted characters have a way of drawing a crowd, and 45 minutes is a sweet...
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I often get asked how I turn a whispered folk tale heard at the back of a festival field into a tidy, sellable pattern pack without flattening the...
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I set up my first pay-what-you-can yarn-mending stall at a midsummer folk festival because someone handed me a scruffed jumper and asked,...
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I once wondered the same thing: can two small knitted puppets really keep an audience rapt for a 20‑minute folk tale outdoors? After years of...
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When I design a knitted character, the colour is often the first thing I fall in love with. A tiny blush on a cheek, a stripe that tells you a...
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I’ve spent many summers walking festival fields with a notebook in one hand and a compact knitted mascot in the other, watching how a tiny woollen...
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I once took a single Somerset folktale — a clever sheep that outwitted a grumpy shepherd — and turned it into three different products that sat...
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I first started thinking about a weatherproof soundbox on a soggy Sunday at a midsummer folk festival, when my little knitted fiddler got soaked in a...
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I’ve sold knitted characters from a stall at dozens of weekend folk festivals, and one of the trickiest challenges has been managing demand for...
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