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Cecilia Hewett on Working with Wool, Part I
Cecilia Hewett is a member of The Woolclip whom we heard a bit about in the post we recently published featuring WOOLFEST. A Cumbrian co-operative of extraordinary women all working with wool in one...
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Cecilia Hewett on Working with Wool, Part II
Continuing on from our earlier post on Cecilia’s handspinning, here is Part II of our interview, in which Cecilia talks about the relationships between the place where she lives and the yarns that she...
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Cecilia Hewett on Working with Wool, Part III
This instalment concludes our 3-part interview with Cecilia about the creation of her handspun yarns. Earlier today she gave us a tour of some of the yarns she produces, and wrote eloquently about the...
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Spring has sprung!
After a long and largely sunless Winter, SPRING is finally here! In my garden here in Reading, there is an apple tree with new growth bristling in its twisty branches; the papery petals of the...
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Cecilia on Working with Wool
Yarn can be so many different things! We have heard about how it can be worsted or woollen spun; we have explored how it can be representative of an individual sheep! This evening during ‘Working with...
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Wovember Words #18
More Wovember Words from “The Wool Pack” by Cynthia Harnett. It’s aimed at young adult readers and was published in 1951. So do forgive its traditional thoughts on the division of labour, because...
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