I can't stop thinking about Tokyo since our time there last month, and so I've started to investigate books I can read this winter to explore it further. First up: Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima which has just arrived in my letterbox. I'm hoping to start it this weekend.  It's about the experiences of…

The season of golden light is here properly now, and I'm trying to remember to find a patch of the syrupy sun to sit in each day while it lasts. How is it where you are? I hope you've had a good week.  On the weekend my sister Tamsin and niece came to stay with…

In April I get inspired to do things like bottling and baking, and cast on knitted hats. The first of these came off the needles while we were travelling in Japan. I amused myself on the plane by knitting on a grey Roku hat for Arlo, albeit slightly clumsily due to the wooden double-pointed needles…

I wanted to share some of my textile-hunting adventures in Japan, which were probably more wide-ranging than these photos suggest. I found that sometimes I got so excited by what I was doing and seeing on my travels that I forgot to document with my camera! But that doesn't matter at all, really. I've admired…