Starting something new

As my birthday is in February this month always feels like the start of the year to me and also a good time to begin new things.

I have been writing a rather infrequent blog, mainly about Quaker things, over at From Stumbling Blocks to Stepping Stones for nearly 5 years now and sometimes I have written there about some of the craft related things I've been doing.

Just now though it seems to me that making stuff is gradually becoming more important to me and what I have done and what I am planning to do deserve a blog space of their own. So here I am. The title refers to the fact that a lot of what I make is jewellery and I have been surprised by how ornate my work has turned out to be, as if I am allowing a side of myself that I have suppressed for a long time to emerge. The picture at the head of the blog shows part of this necklace.

This will be a place to share my jewellery and beading, my knitting, patchwork and quilting and how they are all related.