Sewing

Scrumble scramble

For two years I’ve been promising myself that I would learn to scrumble and make a jacket for my one year one outfit endeavours. I’ve had a few false starts. Everything I read/looked at took the approach of creating small knitted or crochet pieces or “scrumbles” and then joining them together. Sounds easy? Yes, well. I […]

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Travel

Gandhi’s Ashram and some cotton spinning

My followers on Instagram will know that I had a bit of a go at cotton spinning whilst visiting Gandhi’s Ashram in Ahmedabad. First though, I need to talk a bit about the Ashram. It is quite a large compound, immaculately kept in Gandhi’s honour. Guest houses are still intact, as is the room where […]

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