Goodbye James / Hello 2025
Hello and welcome back to my blog. I'm going to launch right in and say that whilst I try to keep this blog mostly textiles related, it wouldn't feel right to go on without acknowledging the passing away of my cat James, who featured in my posts on an infrequent basis. If you follow my Instagram , you will be very familiar with him. James was the hefty age of 19 when he succumbed to his various old-age related ailments last November and he was in my life, with me being his 'person', for all 19 of those years. Needless to say, losing him has caused a tremendous gaping scary void of doom in my life. It's been 3 months, and after having gotten over the initial shock of losing him, it seemed like time to acknowledge it here. Caring for him these last couple of years was a responsibility that I took very seriously, and it felt like more of a priority than Other Things, and I have needed time to grieve in every sense... so the textile news has naturally slowed down. But ...