Birds have featured in a few of my projects over the years. Some of them are perhaps looking a bit dated now! These two are from my folk art phase. This one is several years old, but I recently gave it a makeover with a scrap of lace and a tiny...

. . .was all it took to turn a china ornament from a charity shop. . . . . . into a pincushion.

Well, back after a summer of not much blogging, but quite a lot of knitting. Have I any readers left? I think I've mentioned before that I used to be a keen knitter when I was younger. At that time though, I knitted purely to obtain the finished...