Online Dyeing & Textiles Courses, new website and more. They say that every cloud has a silver lining so hopefully this will be mine…. I am finally going to write the online dyeing and textiles courses I’ve been promising to put together for ages! Following my accident I have been effectively confined to daytime tv […]
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Thank you from me and DT Craft & Design!
Christmas is always a super-busy time for me with DT Craft & Design and I wanted first to say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported us this year. Whether you’ve been on a workshop, purchased from the shop, visited us at a show or just kept in touch with us via our […]
Is dyeing messy? Do I need lots of space...
This is a question I’m frequently asked. My reply is usually something along the lines of ‘no more so than cooking the average meal ‘. And indeed, I dyed in my kitchen for many years. I also dyed all my sock and fibre clubs, samples etc. in a rented house for a year and we […]
Bakewell Wool Gathering
Thank you to everyone who came along to Bakewell Wool Gathering! It was a great show, our second year there, and it’s going from strength to strength. Our stall was next to the workshops and there was a positive menagerie emerging from the needlefelting sessions – deers, bears, sheep and more. The rug-making sessions looked […]
OCA – Mixed Media for Textiles
Readers of my OCA blog/s will know that I recently signed up for the second module of my textiles degrees. This is a new OCA module, Mixed Media for Textiles and looks really exciting! Most of the degree work will be on my new OCA blog (will update with a link once it’s set up!), […]
DT Craft & Design – New Facebook page
I’ve been reluctant to set up a Facebook page page for DT Craft & Design, but I receive so many beautiful projects, information about events, ideas, recommendations and pictures, that it seemed the best place to share them. So I’ve bitten the bullet and here’s a link to the page. I hope you’ll have a […]
Natural Dyeing – What’s growing in the d
Just a pic of the weld growing in my garden at the moment – it’s huge! Looking forward to dyeing with it soon….
Welcome to my blog
Here’s the place to find out what I’ve been up to – interesting stories, tutorials, hints and tips, what’s on and what’s coming up – and you may even find the occasional non-textile post, too!