Tying The Knot Design

05/12/2024

Excited to be down Old Leigh Christmas Market this Sunday! Pray 🙏 for no rain please!!🙈

The annual Old Leigh Christmas market is back for the 7th and 8th of December...

18/11/2024

THANKYOU!

I just want to say a massive big thankyou to everyone who popped by to see me over the weekend at for Christmas Fayre. Thankyou to everyone who purchased, said hello , complimented my handmade items and my stall and made the weekend really enjoyable.

It means so much to me!

If you were unable to make it, you can find me in old Leigh on Sunday 8 December, outside the Crooked Billet for their . I can’t wait!

Thermals and heated Gillet (yes that really is a thing!!) at the ready!!!

07/11/2024

UPCOMING FAYRES

I’ve been pretty manic lately creating lots of hanging Christmas decorations and decor, so most of my time has been away from the socials and work work work!

My dining room table looks like an elf’s workshop, I have sparkly cord all over the place and lots of glue gun burns in the process!!

So I thought I better remind everyone where I’ll be this next month, so here you go;

This Sat 9 Nov: Hockley Community centre. 11am-3pm

16-17 Nov: at Leigh Community Centre. 12pm-4pm

8 Dec: in Old Leigh opposite The Crooked Billet. 10am-5pm

I’m super excited to be attending these Fayres. I’ve been busy working away on a few new designs which I keep forgetting to show you all. So I guess you better pop along if you want to find out more!

Hope to see you all soon.

Jo x

05/10/2024

GRINCH ANYONE?

I really wanted to make a fun piece of decor for my Christmas markets and so why not make a classic piece I thought!

A while later and lots of hot glue (and a few burnt fingers in between!) I came up with this! Made from as much natural material as possible using a cork ball and cotton macrame cord, this is it.

As far as my first attempt goes, I’m pretty damn pleased with him! There will be some limited editions of these at my upcoming markets.

Are you a fan of The Grinch?
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23/07/2024

IT’S BEEN A WHILE

It’s certainly been a while since I’ve picked up my cord and I’m happy to say that I’m glad to be back doing what I love.

I’ve been working away on a commission but I’m not quite finished yet. However as always I have my trusted companion Teddy 🐶 by my side. He is always there and has been a massive help to me over this last year. He might not be able to talk to me but he is a comfort, alongside the knotting!

So here’s a sketch of the tree of life I’m working on whilst the pup watches over me!

29/02/2024

A LEAP OF FAITH

As the tradition goes, leap day is a time when women are properly “allowed” to propose marriage.

And this is exactly what I did 16 years ago in 2008!

We were on holiday in the south of France. It’s was a gorgeous sunny day. I’d spent the morning a nervous wreck pacing up and down, deciding just how I was going to get him on his own. I made up some story about a big fish I had seen in the river at the end of garden of the house we were staying at. He came out with me to have a look (of course there was nothing there!). I hid behind the big tree, took off a ring I was wearing and jumped out, got on one knee and proposed. Luckily he said yes and 8 months later we were married. I miss him every day and this day will always have a special memory for me.

It maybe a tradition that isn’t used a lot these days but how did it come about in the first place?

It’s an Irish tradition that legend has it that St. Brigid of Kildare complained to St. Patrick that women had to wait too long for the men to ask them for their hand in marriage and so St. Patrick agreed that on the extra day of a leap year, women could propose to men. I guess this was quite for forward-thinking at the time!�
So tell me your proposal story?!