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Three weeks in one this time, because things have been BUSY! A rather large chunk of my time lately has been taken up with the launch of Burton’s Bollards, a wonderfully bonkers community project which saw 20 knitted, crocheted and crafted covers pop up across Burton upon Trent on Saturday. The launch was brilliant. The town was buzzing, people were out exploring and the reaction has been absolutely wonderful. There was, however, one slight hiccup… Norbert, our enormous purpl

This week's panel is called Puzzle Me, and it's a very fitting one because I'm a huge fan of jigsaws. There's something so satisfying about watching hundreds of individual pieces gradually come together to create something bigger than themselves. Just like a jigsaw, life works best when lots of little pieces come together. None of us can complete the whole picture on our own. Every act of kindness, every person who lends a hand, every encouraging word and every little contrib

This fortnight has been another warm one, which means the Kindness Cardi hasn’t spent much time on my shoulders! Instead, it’s mostly been keeping me company while I’ve been sneaking in a few rows whenever I can. Some knitting happened in cafés, some in the back garden while the kids splashed about in the paddling pool, and those little pockets of time all add up. I always think that’s one of the lovely things about knitting. Even ten minutes here and there moves a project fo

Week 26 already. This project has become part of the rhythm of my week. I love the structure of committing time to it, and to myself. This week's panels are "Juggling Life" and "Make Art Not War". Work is wonderfully busy (which I'm certainly not complaining about!), family life never slows down, and somewhere amongst all of that I've still been trying to make space for my own creativity. Because that's the thing about making art. It doesn't have to solve the world's problems

Three weeks behind? Apparently my knitting needles didn't get the memo. The last few weeks have brought three new panels to the Kindness Cardi. "Face It Together", "Woman Up", and "Eat The Rich". Quite the trio. Support, resilience, and just a tiny bit of mischief. The funny thing about a project like this is that progress doesn't always look dramatic. Sometimes it looks like making lots of little triangles. I've also been working on more joining triangles, this time the ones

This fortnight's panels are Piano Monster and Hug Me. They're both a reminder to focus on the things that bring joy. It's surprisingly easy to spend more time looking at what's wrong with the world than appreciating what's right in front of us. A quick check of social media can easily turn into half an hour of doom scrolling, and somehow you come away feeling worse than when you started. Half term has been a timely reminder of the importance of choosing joy. We've had a glori

This fortnight’s panel feels especially personal. Love Music. Not because I craft with playlists in the background, funnily enough I usually prefer the quiet or talk radio when I’m knitting or crocheting, but because music has always been a huge part of who I am. Alongside yarn and creativity, singing has been one of my greatest constants. This week, my crafting time has been split between the Kindness Cardi and Burton’s Bollards, with a growing pile of little crocheted heart

Well… life got in the way last week. Studio deadlines, project launches, community art, giant dogs, giant dragons, the usual. So instead of forcing a blog update for the sake of keeping up, I gave myself a little grace and picked things back up this week. And honestly, the next two panels feel like exactly the right ones to return with. Safe Space is outward facing. It’s an intentional signal to others. A reminder that kindness is not passive, it’s something we actively creat

Hello lovely knitters! Week 16 has given us two panels that feel quietly powerful, but in very different ways. Read Banned Books came with one of those brilliant, baffling conversations with my youngest. She simply could not understand why any book would be banned in the first place. Same babe. Same. It’s a reminder that curiosity, questioning and access to stories should never be taken for granted. Books open doors, and sometimes the ones that get challenged are exactly the

Hello lovely knitters! Week 15 brings two panels with very different energies: Integrity and Bee Kind . Integrity is inspired by the Artemis II mission. We stayed up until 3am to watch the splashdown, briefly waking eldest so he could see it too. Bleary-eyed but thrilled, he lasted about an hour before heading back to bed, while we stayed to watch the astronauts emerge from the module. Following their journey has been such a joy, a genuinely uplifting reminder of what peopl

Hello lovely knitters! We’ve been off on our canal boat for the start of the Easter holidays — completely lovely, slightly less helpful for internet signal — so this week is a double catch-up. The two panels are Do It and the flower panel. Do It is exactly what it sounds like. A nudge to stop circling and start. The thing you’ve been putting off, overthinking, waiting for the right moment on — this is it. Start messy. Start small. Just… do it. The flower panel is a little c

Hello lovely knitters, This week’s panels feel like they’re speaking to each other. Live Long and Prosper is a small but mighty nod to Star Trek — and to a future that imagines something better. A world where we’ve moved past war, hunger and inequality. It might be fiction, but it’s a vision worth holding onto (and stitching into existence, one panel at a time). Alongside it, More Love keeps things simple. No big explanation needed. Behind the scenes, I’ve also been figurin

Hello my lovely knitters! This week’s panel is Ban the Bomb. The Ban the Bomb symbol has been around since 1958, created for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. It’s one of the most recognisable protest symbols in the world — simple, clear and impossible to mistake. Knitting it gave me time to think about that. People often say knitting isn’t political. And for many it might not be. It’s yarn, patience, and the steady building of something stitch by stitch. A very human act

Hello lovely knitters, Last week I took a small pause from the Kindness Cardi. Sometimes life needs a little breathing space, and slow crafts are very good at reminding us that not everything has to happen at speed. So this week we’re catching up with two weeks of panels. Bunny Love This one is a tribute to my constant studio companion, Marshall the house rabbit. He supervises knitting, inspects yarn balls and generally behaves like he owns the place (which, if we’re honest,

Week 8 of the Kindness Cardi and I have about as much energy as you’d expect after half term week. Kids at home. Trying to be Fun Mum. Trying to work. Trying to keep all the plates spinning. So this blog is brief. Because that’s all I have in me right now. And I’m choosing to be kind to myself too. This week’s panels: Riots Not Diets Hi Sometimes that’s enough. Being exhausted from life is allowed.

Hello lovely knitters, Yesterday was Valentine’s Day. Hearts everywhere, and I wanted to jump on the bandwagon! This week I’m releasing two new Kindness Cardi panels: Hug My Heart Love the Earth Hug My Heart is about connection. The real, arms-wrapped-round-someone, I’ve-got-you kind of love. Love the Earth feels just as urgent. Loving the earth isn’t a slogan. It’s action. It’s harvesting yarn from old jumpers instead of buying new. It’s making something lasting out of what

This week’s trio came together around a simple but not-always-easy idea: kindness isn’t passive. Sometimes it comforts. Sometimes it challenges. Sometimes it makes people shift in their seats. Mistakes Make Me A reminder that we are not the polished end product, but the work in progress. Every dropped stitch, every wrong turn, every “well, that didn’t go to plan” moment becomes part of the fabric. Mistakes don’t undo us. They shape us. They add texture, depth, story. This pan

This week’s Kindness Cardi panels are all about something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately: the power of small, positive actions. Not the grand gestures. Not the headline-grabbing moments. Just the quiet, everyday choices that gently nudge the world in a better direction. Recently, I shared a little video of me harvesting yarn from an old jumper. Carefully unpicking the seams, winding the wool into neat new balls, giving something worn and forgotten a second life. It was

Hello lovely knitters, Today I’m releasing three more Kindness Cardi panels, and I’m really excited to finally share them with you. You’ll see them coming to life in the video alongside this post — from sketchbook to stitches, with plenty of unpicking, reworking, and cups of coffee along the way. As always, this project isn’t about perfection. It’s about process, patience, and taking a little time out of busy life to make something thoughtful with our hands. This week’s panel

This weekend I took a little breather. We were away on the boat with the family – a much-needed mini getaway after a long and pretty intense stretch of work. This was after a lovely session of knitting in a local cafe. I usually frequent a good independent coffee shop but the masses were out in force in my local town so I ended up in Costa. Not my fave coffee, but I didn’t have the heart to mention this when Costa Coffee commented on my socials! Hahahah (whoops!) But I’ll be