🧶 crochet update. time for the next major decreases, at TCdec4 and thenTCdec2.💙 #mendedwithgold #kintsugihopecrochet #crochet #kintsugi #KintsugiHope #crochetsky

My teenage daughter is one of the winners of the Simon Powell #poetry Prize #2026. Here's the winning entry: #mentalhealth #suicide 'The weight of a thousand jokes'.

🧶 crochet update! We've got to the widest point and now the straight rows. Next the shard decreases again. #mendedwithgold #kintsugihopecrochet #crochet #kintsugi #KintsugiHope

🧶20 rows of Shard 4 (that's its name on the plan, it's still the first one I've attempted). This is tricky, but I'm carrying on! 💙 #mendedwithgold #kintsugihopecrochet #crochet #kintsugi #KintsugiHope

🧶 Shard 4 underway! Started with the biggest shape. First go curled up completely 😅 Second attempt using crossed trebles — really pleased with how it's looking! Seven shards before the gold joins. Worth it 💙 #mendedwithgold #kintsugihopecrochet #crochetsky

🧶 Printed and enlarged Z's illustration, traced the crack pattern onto graph paper with a Sharpie. 190 squares mapped to stitch count. Seven shards, all different shapes. All I have to do now is translate it into crochet stitches somehow 😅💛 #mendedwithgold #kintsugihopecrochet #crochet #crochetsky

🧶 The votes are in — Irregular Shards wins! 11/15 on Facebook voted for the most ambitious option. The gold will do the mending 💛 Pattern planning underway — watch this space! #mendedwithgold #kintsugihopecrochet #crochet #crochetsky

🧶 THE VOTE! Which design for the #MendedWithGold kintsugi blanket? 🔶 Surface crochet crack 🔷 Large hexagons, gold joins 🔶 Small hexagons, gold pieces 🔷 Irregular shards One week to vote! 💛 #mendedwithgold #kintsugihopecrochet #crochet #crochetsky

🧶 Idea 5 — irregular shards joined with gold. The most ambitious option! Each piece crocheted separately, gold joins them like a real kintsugi repair. Illustration by the talented Z 💙 Vote coming tomorrow — which idea wins? #mendedwithgold #kintsugihopecrochet #crochet #crochetsky

🧶 Idea 4 — gold hexagons forming the kintsugi crack amongst blue ones. Bold and graphic! Pros: clear crack pattern. Cons: SO many ends 😅 One more idea coming, then the vote! Which are you hoping wins? 💛 #mendedwithgold #kintsugihopecrochet #crochet #crochetsky

🧶✨ Idea 3 Hexagons joined with gold Blue hexagons joined with a gold seam holding the pieces together. The join needs to be wider to show up at blanket scale. But I love how the ombre yarn looks! More ideas coming — then the vote! #mendedwithgold #kintsugihopecrochet #crochet #kintsugi #crochetsky

🧶 Idea 3: gold surface crochet on blue background Pros: simple Cons: 1) the gold line will be too thin when scaled up to blanket size. 2) the reverse is uninspiring. 3) it's Kintsugi in look but not concept. What do you think? #KintsugiHopeCrochet #MendedWithGold #crochet #crochetsky #craftsky

🧶✨ Day 1 — The Discards! Two ideas tried, two ideas rejected 😄 Mid-row gold switch = tension nightmare. Gold throughout = pretty but not Kintsugi enough Better ideas coming up but I need your help too! #mendedwithgold #kintsugihopecrochet #crochet #crochetsky #craftsky

🧶New #crochet project! A kintsugi-inspired blanket because broken things repaired with gold are more beautiful for the breaking. It'll be raffled off when finished, with all proceeds to @kintsugihope 💛 I'll need your help with decisions along the way! #mendedwithgold #kintsugihopecrochet

❤️‍🩹 Fab evening last night at BTP Bristol for Patrick Regan's book launch. always encouraging, always real. Highly recommend 'Small Steps for Big Change' if you're feeling overwhelmed. #mentalhealth #kintsugiHope #Bristol

👟 with a job change comes a routine change: running is now an 8:30 after school-run challenge. On the plus side, the sunshine is bright today. #slowrunning #running #moveformentalhealth

🧗🏻‍♀️🔦 Wessex club trip down Stoke Hill Mine Cave today. It was accurately advertised as 'flat out crawling, energy sapping mud and slippery traverses'. Great fun still, and makes me feel I can now do anything!

hey all, I'm taking a Christmas holiday from social media so have a blessed and peaceful Christmas and A Happy New Year! xx

🧗🏻‍♀️🔦 #caving trip down to Eastwater today- all the way to Unlucky Strike and Mellow Chamber. The pretties feel very worth it by the time you make it there! Fab 2nd Sat trip with the Wessex Cave Club. #spelunking #movingformentalhealth

👟 cold dark slow run this morning, but if I wait till it's no longer cold and dark in the mornings then I won't be running till May😄 #running #slowrunning #moveformentalhealth

🧶 Christmas stocking made for my son. Star pattern from Attys love for crochet on Flickr, hexagon joining from Jennifer Good and solid hexagons from Bella Coco on YouTube. #crochet #crochetsky #showmeyourknits

🧗🏻‍♀️🔦 #caving log. Goatchurch cavern. Solo trip to familiarise myself with the cave so I can take the children in the school holiday.

🧶 #JanuaryChallenge completed! Here is Svetlana Rogatykh's #foliageblanket in interlocking filet #crochet complete, using Sirdar Loveful Yarn in fern and birch. Thanks to @thewoolceller in #chippingsodbury for their support. Pattern from Ravelry. #craftsky #crochetsky

🧶 I've been plugging away and the next post will be the grand reveal. Here are some dot matrix printer progress photos for you. Rows 200-208. #foliageblanket #crochet #wip #craftsky

🧶 I was so close! I was going to finish the complicated pattern before Stranger Things, do the border during, and be done before yarn shop visit tomorrow. But I made an error, had to frog 2 whole rows of both colours, and then kept going wrong as watching TV! #crochet #wip #foliageblanket #craftsky

👟 morning run as the sun came up today, which wasn't as picturesque as it sounds under the grey skies. First run without a single cough, and first cold shower since being ill too :) #moveformentalhealth #movetocave #slowrunning #running

Janet and anxiety I bumped into Janet at coffee morning today. I first met Janet at a Kintsugi Hope Wellbeing Group a few years ago. Today, Janet told me that she went swimming and for the first time ever she managed to ’nearly’ enjoy it. Janet and myself at coffee morning Janet explained she had…

Final stretch everybody! Row 196 completed in both colours. 4 more of pattern to go, then 9 of border and we are there! #januarychallenge #foliageblanket #crochet #craftsky #crochetsky #wip

👟 managed to run/walk a whole mile for the first time since being ill. Being out in the fresh Mendip air helped! #moveformentalhealth #running #slowrunning #grateful

🧶 190 rows completed, 20 to go and I'm on the final stretch to get the blanket done before Christmas! #crochet #crochetsky #wip #foligaeblanket #januarychallenge