Craft has taken a back seat this year while I have worked on other poetry-related projects (like my Cards for Poets which you can buy in my shop) so it was fabulous to be asked to teach an eco-dyeing workshop. In the way that these things work, I had been... Read more →

It's been a long time since I've made anything with my hands. So long in fact, that I can't remember the last thing I made. Terrible for someone who professes to be a maker! I've been caught up in getting ready for the launch of my second collection of poetry,... Read more →

This book contains the poem, Still: Books, that inspired my process zine, Some Thoughts About Writing A Poem For A Journal. The zine details my creative process for writing this particular poem. There's an art to writing a poem for publication. It's an art I am struggling to learn. But... Read more →

After the success of my first notebook with an eco-dyed cover I just had to make some more. Being me, I got rather carried away and used a whole pad of A3 watercolour paper to make eight A6 sized notebooks. I feel like I'll be making more of these in... Read more →

I was trying to make an eco-dyed silk scarf in blue / grey tones to go with my blue leather journal, blue eco-dyed scarf and knitted blue / grey fingerless gloves. I've got a thing for matching my stationery to my accessories at the moment. I gathered some leaves from... Read more →

I can't remember when I dyed these balls of wool. It was at least a couple of years ago in the midst of my eco dyeing frenzy. At the time I was dyeing anything and everything I could get my hands on. I was also doing straight up dyeing. Most... Read more →

Eco-dyeing has wormed it's way back into my affections. Each time I think I've finished with foraging, boiling and unbundling, along comes another idea. Eco-dyeing has recently made the move from fabric to paper. Watercolour paper beautifully soaks up the colours from the leaves, yielding gorgeous patterns on the paper.... Read more →

I thought I was finally immune. I thought my eco-dyeing days were behind me. After all, there's only so many eco dyed scarves you can make. And then I saw a pair of wool socks my friend Claire Mosley created. I wanted them so bad. I just had to make... Read more →

My beautiful friend Meli is moving to Tasmania. I'm sure going to miss her. I had to create some hand made goodies, including this hand bound artist's book with an eco-dyed silk cover, to send her on her way with a lot of love and good wishes. She's an artist... Read more →

After being gripped by an eco-dyeing fervour for the last couple of years I found myself taking an unintentional and unplanned break from foraging and dyeing (you may have noticed I've been posting a lot more poems than craft lately). It seemed I had run out of things and reasons... Read more →