Textiles and Tea today featured Jane Milburn, who is a total sister from another mother. From her series of interesting jobs, because one thing led to another, she not fitting into the structural workplace, to her up cycling and cheerful adventuring with ideas, I love her!
She explains she's always done the work that reflected her values, not $$, that she can't fathom keeping on doing something because it's what you do, in so many places I was so much in agreement. She's a happy woman, living on an island off Brisbane, Australia, which you see in the background picture, just fun to listen to!
She's very serious about using and reusing natural fibers, thrifting, altering, using used fabric to make new clothes, but not too many! And she's the recipient of some prestigious awards including the Australia Medal, and a Churchill Trust Fellowship. She believes in ecology and beauty, and fun with function.
Anyway, here she is
interestingly, this is what I'd been doing earlier
These are handspun and knitted socks I've often repaired invisibly with matching yarn, but I thought I'd like to have more fun with darning.
And, fancy darning left little time for lunch, so that was plain.
I did get out and prune a big lopsided branch off the butterfly bush and drag it out to the trees out back. And pick new flowers.
Happy day everyone, eke out the season if you're in the Northern hemisphere, stand by for burgeoning if you're with Jane, in the Southern hemisphere.
