Wool Week

So Wool Week is over for another year! More people are aware of the Campaign & its aims so its going well.Beautifully displayed woollies can be seen at Posh Sardine in Arnside.If you can't get to Arnside see Posh Sardine's facebook page.Also The Little Shop of Hobbies in Morecambe is stocking the yarn & Vicky the owner is hoping to do a window display.Saturday the 19th I was busy demonstrating at John Lewis in Cheadle,lots of interest in wool spinning & my little knitters loom.It was a really nice day,good atmosphere & the staff made me feel really welcome.

Tea cosy

retro tea & egg cosies

Now I think these are lovely very vintage/afternoon tea sort of things.However family members seem to find them a great source of fun & I've been asked if I'm knitting bob caps for Meercats!

Postal drama !!

Nearly a disaster! The carrier who shall remain nameless lost one bag of fleece on its way to the mill in Derbyshire.Panic! The fleece in question was from the 'special ones' Cheviot/Leicester cross shearling fleeces.They will produce beautiful wool & thanks to all the help & advice from the owners of the mill the bag was found in Coventry (cue lots of witty comments about being sent to Coventry!)All I need now is the refund I've claimed for ----- I'm not holding my breath!

uninspiring bags of fleece!!

Here's the bags of fleece ready to pack & send off for millspinning but I'll keep some on one side for some soothing handspinning! Next week Arnside for some rare breed Whitefaced Woodland fleeces & down to Conder Green for some Blue Texel --- new one this.

fleece collection day

Morecambe Bay scintillating in the summer sun!
At last sheep are shorn & fleeces available to collect.First stop Yealand Conyers to collect 6 lovely curly Masham fleeces from Barbara & Joan & then on to Silverdale for a quick snack on the shore (see above)  it looked so beautiful as we munched  our lunch (cheese & pickle this time & more  ginger beer),then into Silverdale to pick up from Martin a mixed lot of North Country Cheviot,Bluefaced Leicester,Jacobs/Texel X & 4 of the 'special ones' Cheviot/Bluefaced Leicester X  first clip so these will be beautifully soft! All in all about 50kgs of fleece.Back down the motorway accompied by a very sheepy fragrance!!

see those white dots? Those are the ACTUAL sheep! I'm a wonderful photographer!!

day out June 10th

Had to deliver a cushion to Posh Sardine in Arnside -------- I still can't get over this shop/cafe its such a super place I just wish they had more room for my stuff!! It was really busy & I met some of the lovely customers there as well as the nice dogs! It would have been even better if I hadn't had bad hay fever & toothache,went on to have a picnic on the shore at Silverdale (egg & cress butties & lashings of ginger beer!) & popped in to see the farmers at Yealand Conyers,no sheep shearing yet its too cold & wet so I have to be patient.Back down the motorway again (boo hoo) & I realized my hay fever had gone so I really need to live by the coast so I don't suffer anymore! Toothache didn't go though.