Payday yarn When I was a little girl, payday meant one thing to me: the yarn shop. Once my mother got paid, we walked to the local yarn shop in Pretoria North and bought yarn for whatever was going onto our hooks or needles next. Not yarn for one day. …
October 2026
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The Sedge Stitch Blanket
Every time a new grandchild is announced in our family, I do the same thing. I get yarn and a hook, and I start a blanket.

The Person Who Made It Should Wear It
I am waiting for yarn.
Summer tops are coming. I have the designs in my head, and when the yarn arrives I will make them, and then I will have to photograph them. On my body. The body I made them for, because I made them for me, not for a size chart.
That thought makes me cringe. And I have been sitting with that reaction long enough to want to write about it.

Bekendstelling: Marishia Baard van Woestyn-Kind
Om ‘n nuwe jaarn handelsmerk in Suid Afrika te vestig is nie maklik nie. Daar is baie stemme, baie gevestigde name, en as jy nuut is, verdwyn jy maklik tussen al die geraas. Daarom wil ek julle voorstel aan Marishia Baard van Woestynkind.

