wooden spoon

Spoons! Spoons! Spoons!
Do we really need more spoons?

Spoon Carving. It seems to be taking the Western World by storm.  What is driving this phenomenon? I believe there are several things converging to give such life and vibrancy to the delightful craft of carving spoons. It is all about our need to re-connect with the natural world, with ourselves and with one another…

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Making a spoon from a bent stick. Green woodworking delights.

While spending Christmas/New Year in Albany, Western Australia, I gave a hand to help with some gardening in a friend’s garden. (For those of you readers in the northern hemisphere, this time of the year is early summer. While you were hunkered down hiding from the cold singing carols around the fire in your winter…

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The Joy of Carving Wooden Spoons.

I love carving wooden spoons. And I’m not even Welsh. Over the last few years, Spoon Carving would be one of the most popular of the public workshops that I run. It is a wonderfully tactile process and a lot of fun. In the Northern Hemisphere, wooden spoons are predominantly made from green wood. We don’t have such…

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