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From beadwork to cross-stitching, auto repair and virtual darts, Winnipeggers find creative outlets for their pandemic frustrations By: Declan Schroeder Save to Read Later
Karlie Higgins, whose medical condition means she must be more careful than most, took up cross-stitching and heddle weaving during the pandemic. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
Long before the vaccine had rolled out, Karlie Higgins, 37, was working with needles of her own.
Winnipeg Free Press
Long before the vaccine had rolled out, Karlie Higgins, 37, was working with needles of her own.
A former geologist, Higgins works with much softer materials these days: wools and threads for elaborate cross-stitch displays, stunning sweaters, groovy garden gnomes, and much more.
A GROUP of local fire fighters are well underway walking the isles' tarmac - visiting all 14 stations in Shetland in the process - as part of a fundraising challenge in aid of the Fire Fighters Charity. Ewan Anderson and James Tulloch were just past the Nibon junction on their.
Roy Dennis’s Restoring the Wild chronicles 60 years of rewilding Britain Now 81, Dennis is possibly the UK’s most senior and influential conservationist you may never have heard of. Ospreys are expected to arrive home to breed any day now. Two hundred and fifty pairs now nest in the UK. Red kites can be seen turning aerobatics above the M40. Perth has become the first UK city in 400 years to host resident urban beavers. There are golden eagles again in Ireland, although they are struggling. More successful are white-tailed eagles, which have been reintroduced to the UK in recent decades.
Originally worn by golfers and cricketers at the start of the 20th century, the first sweater vests – AKA tank tops or sleeveless sweaters – were conceived as less restrictive and insulating alternatives to the heavyweight tweed sports jackets that made doing, well, anything (let alone swinging a bat or club) prohibitively difficult.
The pint-sized style maven that was the Duke of Windsor was an early proponent of Fair Isle sweater vests, with the likes of Paul McCartney and Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry picking up the cosy, sleeve-free mantle in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the garment experienced a resurgence in popularity.