Sheep!

Heres a couple of pictures of the sheep posing in the field by the Silverdale Hotel during the Local Food and Produce Festival so that visitors could see both the textiles and the wool providers, lovely photos taken by customer Sara.Obviously not taken by me the worlds worst photographer!

 

 

 

Arnside/Silverdale AONB Local Food and Produce Festival

Heres the entrance to The Silverdale Hotel where my display of local wool produce is being hosted during the local food and produce festival.From the menu board you can see how the owners make use of local produce! Wish I'd had time to stop for a nice cool drink in the gardens but  had to dash on to Bank House Farm to collect this years fleeces.

Arnside/Silverdale AONB Local Food and Produce Festival

Heres a couple of pictures of the display finally set up at the Silverdale Hotel for the festival,with thanks to the AONB for including me and Jane and Paul Lucas for hosting and 'minding' the display! Entitled 'Woolly Jumpers from farm to yarn' we've embellished the pieces on display with  tiny sheep,butterflies,acorns and flowers.Most of these bits and bobs are charity or junk shop finds and are just to show the importance of the wildlife and conservation grazers in the area..Lovely views from the back of the hotel overlooking the Bay and the fields with the sheep who provide the lovely fleeces ------- can't get much more local than that!

 

 

 The map of Lancashire in the background is accidental but appropriate!

Wool Boat visiting again today at Marple,3rd boat along (in the distance!). Colin and Carol should be back from the Peak Forest Canal by August so hope to meet up again at Baileys Trading Post possibly a bit of an 'event' in the pipeline!

I've sent this image to a possible new outlet to show some of the upcycled stuff and other interior bits and bobs.I thought it all looked really nice together in the sun!

Heres my visit to the Wool Boat today at Baileys Trading Post on the Macclesfield Canal to meet Colin and Carol for the first time although we've e-mailed for some time now it was really nice to meet like-minded people.Loved the boat I want one! Thats me in the left hand bottom corner

Heres Tom our elderly moggie with a knack for finding a comfy spot! I've just received these beautiful peg loom rugs from Lana Norman produced from last year's Whitefaced Woodland fleeces from Arnside and the Black Welsh and Herdwick from Silverdale.I spread one out  under my rigid heddle loom to admire it,turned my back and found a cat had claimed it! So thats one rug that won't be sold (I wanted to keep one anyway!)