This is my first quilt – begun in San Francisco in 1990 and finished in Zürich in 1993. I hand quilted it and really truly spent three years on the endeavour. I still love it, but live in dread of having to wash it as in my ignorance I didn’t pre-wash the red fabric and […]

I had great plans for yesterday. No, I’ll rephrase that, my great plans for yesterday were for a quiet knitting recovery day after all our days of running around in Rome. I fully planned to make great strides with my Retro Ribbed Turtleneck (from the Green Mountain Spinnery, as you’re asking), finish the turtle neck […]

The days seemed long this weekend. That doesn’t often happen. For once there was little planned – one airport pickup, one long early morning run, dinner out with my husband, a walk across the field to the farm to buy salad and eggs, but otherwise a blank diary, an unstructured weekend. It felt strange. The […]

Today is a glorious lazy spring day. My mother will arrive from England this afternoon. Thankfully the planes are flying normally again – although we did enjoy the quiet when they weren’t. It’s nice not to have any ‘will she, won’t she’ stress about her arrival, although there is bound to be a little stress […]

Today for the first time in at least five years I awoke to quiet. Apart from birdsong, outside all was still. It was strange and I had almost forgotten how it could be. On every other morning I hear the rushing noise of big jets coming in to land at Zürich airport every few minutes. […]