squares space

I’ve started this new digital journal and it’s a bit like cracking open a fresh new notebook with crisp white pages. Where to start and how? A space of so many squares.

Its purpose is to share my handmade life with you, fellow makers and appreciators of textile craft. So I’m reminding myself to keep it simple.

Here’s a recent make - a big feather cushion made from small squares of cotton and linen fabric left over from other projects over a number of years.

Another square thing… a pincushion I made as a sample for an embroidery class i taught recently. I used cotton and silk threads on some recycled wool fabric. I also embroidered small squares of linen as a class sample, which I then patchworked together into a project bag for a friend.

More squares… this time of the crocheted variety. My plan for these is a large blanket based on the Battenberg design, which features colourful squares with every alternate block a cream colour to create a checkerboard effect. I’m using my mum’s hand-dyed handspun for the coloured blocks and a grey possum-blend recycled yarn for the unifying colour.

I think this project will take forever, or at least a very long time.