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The wild nature of craft: thoughts on foraging, knitting and motherhood with Katie May

From her studio in rural Dorset, Katie May creates natural hand-knitted garments for babes and mamas. Making wild botanical dyes from the fields, forests and hedgerows, Katie’s palette reflects the turning seasons.  Simple, minimal and earthen, her craft is rooted in the natural. With kindness, environmental consciousness and slow living at its core, Katie’s clothing brand Elliot and May celebrates a simpler, more grounded way of […]

July: a seasonal guide

“I drifted into a summer-nap under the hot shade of July, serenaded by a cicadae lullaby, to drowsy-warm dreams of distant thunder.” –Terri Guillemets July heralds the hottest month of the year when the Northern Hemisphere is at the height of its green. July days are made for rolling out picnic rugs and lazing on […]

The power of morning

Bernard Williams once wrote, “There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope”, and I am inclined to agree. The morning has long been a time beloved by creatives. That soft early morning light, warm and gold, is so often the spark that sets alight our imagination. When we see […]

Becoming ætla

– rebranding Fen + Field 2020 was a lot of things. Even though we’d only just got started, for our team, two of those things were reflection and motivation. After launching in 2019, Fen + Field’s first issue was published right at the start of the year. There was a lot of soul searching about […]