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.
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Craft Bubble

I live in a bubble. I mean, we all do, obviously, and the Internet allows us to accentuate the effect as much as we feel like. But really. Big bubbly bubble.

It’s kind of nice to be reminded of that, when it happens in a gentle way.

Take the other week. I’ve posted about [...]

Quilts 1700-2010 at the V&A: Review

A week after my visit to the Victoria & Albert Museum‘s current exhibition, Quilts 1700-2010 (which, as you see above, occasioned the purchase of some fat quarters, oh yes!), my abiding memories are of shape.

Scallops on an incredible set of chintz bed hangings that opens the exhibition. Feathered quilting on an eighteenth-century wholecloth [...]

Patchwork, Society

Back in September, I joined the Irish Patchwork Society (Eastern Branch). Tomorrow, a group of us are off to London to visit the Quilts 1700-2010 exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Tomorrow, people! I’ve been squeeing about this for seven months! Eeeeeeeee!

Ahem.

I’ve avoided reading reviews of the exhibition, because I don’t [...]

Visit to the Louis Mulcahy Shop (or, What I Did on My Holidays)

Last month, the Oyster and I made pots! (Mine’s the one on the left.)

We were on holiday on the Dingle Peninsula (Co. Kerry), where we often stay, and I finally did something I’ve been sighing over for years: paid a visit to the Louis Mulcahy workshop in Ballyferriter. I took the Oyster with [...]