Woolfest what a wonderful show!

Our space as we arrived!

Rita carrying the picnic baskets....alas no picnic inside.

The transformation begins.....

Suzanne's wonderful picture was much admired.

What a truly wonderful show.

Amazing craftspeople and such lovely customers.

We had a ball!

Sadly I didn't get a chance to take any overall

show pics as was so busy!

But a huge thanks to all the lovely people that visited us

and a special thanks to Alison who came even though

she's recovering from a big op!

We can't wait for Woolfest 2014!

Packing ....mmmmm!

Mmmmm not feeling so confident this morning

that the panda actually is a tardis!

What do you think?

Tuesday it's sari silk day! And we are in underwater world!

So thrilled with this gorgeous underwater world

Suzanne made for our Woolfest display

using lots of our hand dyed fibres!

It's sari silk day today!

This is Vicky my nutty knitting friend.

Spent yesterday dying silk that just arrived

and now we can make up sari ribbon packs!

Monday it's locks day!

Yep, you can't even get to my desk today!

Rita is in helping pack

all the locks we have been dying and separating.

Let me tell you this is literally weeks of work!

All those lovely locks!

Suri alpaca, bfl, wensleydale, mule, Romney

mohair, masham......

Winner of last weeks prize! We are off on Thursday to Woolfest!

Last Weeks winner of our prize is

Crafty Kitten

just drop me a line to (hopejacare@yahoo.com)

and let me know if you would prefer a knitted scarf

or a kit to do yourself!

Below Reuben with our new sign

from Printdesigns 

for Woolfest! 

Thanks to Scott at surfprint 

for help with sign layout!

Unfortunately Reuben has to stay

at home to look after the kids. 

Vicky and Rita will be joining me at Woolfest

and I can tell you we are all very excited!

Come back on Wednesday 

for our final Woolfest Competition!

It's a biggie so don't miss out!

Woolfest countdown winner and prize no.4.......

Last weeks winner for the countdown

to Woolfest £20 gift voucher

was no 1 again!

obviously it's worth getting in there quickly!

So Congratulations

  Anesha aka Crafting Queen

(Drop me a line hopejacare@yahoo.com

 with what you would like from the store

and I will make up a pack to suit your needs

hand dyed fibre, yarn, ribbons, threads,silk and wool fabrics,

mulberry bark, hand dyed felt )

and thanks to everyone that entered.

This weeks prize is a new product we have created for Woolfest.

It is made using a really lovely soft merino and kid mohair yarn by Ashford fibres.

I have dyed all the yarns and locks.

 My friend Vicky has come up with this 

Fabulous easy scarf and embellishments kit.

The winner can choose either a knitted scarf (made for you) 

with locks or bobbles or flowers.

Or a kit with any 3 packs of embellishments.

Woolfest prize countdown candy no.3 and last weeks winner! Hope's 6th party

We had such a great day for Hope's 6th Birthday party in the garden.

Not sure what's going on with Caleb!

We had a treasure hunt (organized by jacob)

 face painting, tattoo's 

making bracelets (granny in charge) and

Ice cream decorating (run by Caleb)

They were brilliant!

So slightly tired and just finished tidying up

but here is last weeks prize winner

in our count down to Woolfest draw

 and this weeks prize!

As drawn by random.org

CONGRATULATIONS

NO. 1 - Clare Wilkins

(drop me an e-mail at hopejacare@yahoo.com)

and I'll pop your prize in the post!

This weeks prize is £20 gift voucher for anything you would like

from Folksy or Ebay shop.

Or if you prefer 6 digi images of your choice.

Just leave a comment below!

Woolfest candy countdown prize 2 - 45 piece silk ribbons and yarns...last weeks winner

Sorry it's late but as chosen by Random.org

the winner of the knitted brooch is no. 4

Nannieflash! 

Congrats Shirley get in touch 

and I will pop the brooch in the post.

I can be e-mailed at hopejacare@yahoo.com.

This weeks countdown to Woolfest  candy

(only 3 weeks and 4 days!)

Is the fabulous selection of hand dyed

45 piece silk ribbons and yarns as pictured below....yum!

Great for many crafters and super for card makers/scrapbookers.

So please join in and the draw will be next sunday.

If you are interested just leave a comment !

And Random.org will be back next week.........

Sea plane.....Custom order and table cloths

We had a lovely visit from Reuben's Dad and Jennie

at the weekend all the way from Somerset.

Reuben and Douglas went on a fab trip on a sea plane

out of Loch Lommond.

It was a perfect day for it.

Caleb supervising!

Up in the sky! We live in a very bonnie part of the country.

Today a custom "sea themed" pack very appropriately!

Dying fabric for table cloths for Woolfest.

The Woolfest Count down blog candy.......

4 Weeks and 4 days to go to

Woolfest!

and we are going to have a

count down to Woolfest blog candy giveaway

with a prize each week

New prize announced every Sunday......

 and then a

grand draw after Woolfest

with another prize.

This weeks prize is

One of our hand dyed and hand knitted

brooches!

(dyed and constructed by me - knitted by Vicky)

Just leave a message on this post and you will be counted in

next Sunday's draw

We'd love you to follow us and that way you'll know

about our next draw.

Just have to share the photo's from the SAFAS team at Chelsea

It is an amazing display!

So deserving of the GOLD win!

The SAFAS ladies

CONGRATULATIONS!

In this photo I also spotted some of the mulberry

bark that I dyed for them....!

What an amazing achievement!

Yes Shirley you are right Joanna it is!

The lovely SAFAS ladies at Chelsea sporting their orange brooches!

Congratulations!

Yep it's the lovely SAFAS ladies at Chelsea

sporting their brooches that I recently made.

Their stand looks amazing, I can't wait to see more photo's.

Keep up to date with them on Facebook!

They won a GOLD! How great is that!

Lovely wool tops.

silk noil

recycled sari silk yarn

Wensleydale lamb....oh so lovely!

Sale time over at StitchyBear's Digi Outlet

It's sale time at

StitchyBear's

grab a bargain!

Select Sunday......Debs aka Madbird Textiles

This week I'd like to share these wonderful 

creative embroidery work by Debs

AKA Madbird Textiles.

I love the embroidered swirls

and very contemporary feel to Deb's creations.

Madbird textiles 

can be found on

Facebook

(have a look in her photo album

for some wonderful creations for exhibitions)

and at

Etsy

all work copyrighted by

Madbird Textiles.

Woolfest ...only 5 weeks and 5 days to go!

Yep I need to get my skates on in preparation!

I can't believe its been a year since I visited Woolfest as a customer

with Vicky, Rita (and John Rita's husband)

and in 5 weeks and 5 days we will be there exhibiting.

We are all so excited!

There are even some visitors of the fleecy / hairy / furry kind!

Read more about the animals at Woolfest .

I'm going to have a wee count down for the show

and perhaps some blog candy on the way!

Come back next week to enter our 

Woolfest countdown Giveaway. 

My little helper!

Today another ideal dying day in Largs!

small creative embroidery pack

sari ribbons

medium creative embroidery pack

As you can see...Hope is a very able assistant!

Dying wool rope and silk hankies

Yep another dying day - indoors it's pouring!

Some fab wool rope and silk hankies

I also dyed new sari silk today but battery on camera died

before I could take a photo!