Hi, welcome to String Revolution. I'm Léan, I live in Dublin with my husband and two little boys, and I am a dangerous stringy subversive.
My job is to radiate my creative truth, and to help you radiate yours. I create, without exception, every day. I write here when I have something to say.

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Very Secret Mysteries, no. 5: Quilting

It’s not Wednesday, but it was quite recently! So here is the fifth in my series of personal introductions to the crafts I do. (I started with knitting, then talked about sewing, then turned to crochet and embroidery.) If you do any of these crafts, I’d love to hear about how you got started, [...]

Sunday Stash, no. 1

Feast your eyes on this thrilling silk, which a dear friend brought back from Vietnam as a present for me when she travelled there a few years ago. Isn’t it amazing? I adore the way the woven pattern is so sumptuous and intricate on the front, then recedes to make way for the calm [...]

Very Secret Mysteries, no. 4: Embroidery

It’s not even remotely Wednesday! But here at String Revolution, I’ve arranged for time to stand still while I get my Wednesday series post written and published. So there. This is the fourth in my series of personal introductions to the crafts I do. (I started with knitting, then talked about sewing, then turned [...]

High Fashion

I was in my parents’ house yesterday, and I took the opportunity to go rummaging in my old room. Sure enough, I found some of the things I’ve been remembering recently.

There must be a huge cache of my doll clothes somewhere around the place. Yesterday I found only a few things – like [...]

Very Secret Mysteries, no. 3: Crochet

It’s Wednesday! (That is, it was when I wrote this – but then I didn’t manage to get it posted before the Feaster woke up for his night feed. Oh well.) Here is the third in my series of personal introductions to the crafts I do. The first one is about knitting, and last [...]

Return of the Purple Thing

It’s been more than usually mad around here these past few days, and I’ve been stalling on writing this post because I haven’t had a chance to take an up-to-date photo of the purple thing. But this evening the very lovely Niall helped me out, with his tripod and everything.

It fits! At least, [...]