Fit to burst....Hope and her award!

We have one very happy almost 7 year old tonight.

She won the 

1st Largs Girls Brigade 

trophy for handicrafts.

Away to bed with it carefully position so

she can see it first thing when she wakes up.

Oh my! Don't we need to paint that gate.....

Great British felting packs

In our British packs we have fluffy stuff from all

over the U.K...

Some local and some from up North

and others from down south.

Handmade pre felt using shetland and B.F.L

hand spun yarns by Rita

hand made felt pebbles using Jacob and Romney.

Angora - Yorkshire

Mohair - Cambridgeshire and Somerset

Blue Texel  - Ayrshire

North Ronaldsay - Those wonderful seaweed eating sheep

on the Island of North Ronaldsay, Orkney

Alpaca - all over the U.K.

Bluefaced leicester - Northumberland

Merino - Woolaston

Wensleydale - all over the U.K.

and many more......

How awful! I hope they can do something for the wonderful MAC building....

So sad to hear today about the 

fire at the G.S.A. Mackintosh building.

I really hope they can do something. 

I have very fond memories of my time spent there.

It is such an important piece of Architecture.

Dying with plants....

The Barony centre - West Kilbride

Heading here tomorrow for a course on

Dying with plants being taught by Ann Ross.

Really looking forward to it as its something

I've really not done before.

The Barony is also holding an exhibition

by Scottish felt makers.

So it will be a great chance to see that too!

It's a blue/sea green day.....

Lots of lovely yarn

North Ronaldsay, bfl, shetland

fluff - angora,alpaca and mohair

tops - Shetland, north ronaldsay and Wensleydale

Fleece - bfl curls

all for some new British packs.

(grown in the U.K. more than native to)

silk fabric

silk rods and cocoons

Customer orders....what fun

I love creating things for customers projects....

just a few pics

of different projects

that I have dyed for this week.

New range for shop....Bark.....

While Hope was creating her wonderful colourful piece yesterday,

I was making bark.

to put into....luxury felting packs

XL luxury creativity packs

I love the effect of the additions of soyabean and flax/linen

for texture.

creativity packs

standard felting packs.

Hope helps out.......and creates her own piece of felt.

What a great Sunday!

Hope and I got a chance to do some felting.

(I should say Hope is now almost 7, 

I am having a problem changing my profile)

She decided she was going to help me and

then thought it would be good to make a piece herself.

She chose all her ingredients from the studio

(I did cut the hearts)

and laid out her piece.

She likes the rolling pin

and was very patient rolling and turning.

and of course you have to have the

hands on approach.

It's a lovely soft piece of felt to take in for

show and tell tomorrow.

And then there's a touch of sparkle.....

sparkle rust

With just a touch of trilobal rainbow nylon

the sparkle range are combinations of Shetland and Merino.

pink

blue

red

purple

green

Custom blends......just sooooo excited !

Antique 1 (Rita's favourite)

bfl/soyabean/flax and merino

How excited were Vicky and Rita and I yesterday

as our custom blends arrived at last!

Darkest

We did track the poor delivery van man "Chris"

round Largs for 10 of his deliveries before us.

Yes he did look slightly concerned when we told 

him we'd been keeping a close eye on him.

But the wait was oh so worth it.....

My favourite above is Pebble peace.

It's tussah silk/flax/baby alpaca and merino.......

Forest Woodland

Heather(with wonderful added linen texture)

Pebble marl feels amazing with Gotland in the mix....

 can't wait to start felting!

Scarf base lengths

Something new this week 

in the Ebay store

is hand dyed Merino and silk

pre felt scarf based lengths.

Great to wet felt into or embellish with needle felting.

Wonderful soft 80% 19.5 mic merino and 20% silk

so fine almost cobweb like in areas.

Dyes beautifully.....