tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354539082024-03-14T04:01:09.711+00:00Tart's TalesThe life and times of The Border TartTarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16573486103107798262noreply@blogger.comBlogger305125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35453908.post-69058027152795546242015-04-06T16:03:00.000+00:002015-04-06T16:03:10.590+00:00April Fool<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Wow, what weather! Who'd have thunk it. A great way to welcome in the Spring. Heavens, I have even been spinning yellow (probably my second least favourite colour, only beaten by baby pink. No wait, peach is worse. OK, my third least favourite)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I've just prepared four batches of drum carded fibre so that I have several skeins-in-the-making in stock. And as I am selling my indigo-dyed fibres, it's a good idea if I spin up a skein so that people can see how it looks (thanks Fiona, sensible plan...) </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This lovely cactus came my way and I have blended wool and silk fibres inspired by the striking colour combination. I'll show you the finished yarn in due course.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There has been much dyeing going on but <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/BorderTart" target="_blank">my little Etsy shop</a> is earning its keep. Yarn sales keep magically happening so the process of <i>building up stock</i> is quite slow. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And there'll be a hiatus as I disappear north for a wedding then south-west <a href="http://www.wigtownbookfestival.com/opportunities/the-open-book-1" target="_blank">to run a bookshop</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Normal dyeing service will be resumed in May, but only <i>after</i> the excellent <a href="http://www.artatancrum.org.uk/" target="_blank">Art@Ancrum</a> over the early May Bank holiday. Fitting in preparations for that event is quite an art in itself.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Busy? You bet</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Happy? Oh yes!</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Making a living in the country is hardly ever simple. It may look restful as you pass through but stop a while and you'll find we are all pretty busy people. We appreciate the beauty of our surroundings and our good fortune in living closer to the natural world. We are more than happy to share it with those of you who venture here but don't be seduced into thinking it's a worry-free, care-free life we are living.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">On that note I must go and pack a frock (ok, <i>my one frock</i>) for the impending nuptials. Oh heck, and shoes with heels....</span></span><br />
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Tarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16573486103107798262noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35453908.post-41669962797854143452015-03-12T22:58:00.001+00:002015-03-12T22:58:05.401+00:00Just in case there was any doubt...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Tarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16573486103107798262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35453908.post-15298762533195995412015-03-05T15:06:00.001+00:002015-03-05T15:16:11.885+00:00Between Fairs...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The last Saturday in February dawned chilly but dry and I headed off to St Abbs for what turned out to be the busiest <span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/St-Abbs-Wool-Festival/231205380368994" target="_blank">Wool Festival</a></span> there yet. We had lots of visitors who thoroughly enjoyed their day, as did I. My newest indigo products are these dyed wool batts, all carded and ready to be spun or felted. I was really pleased with how well they were received and am now on a mission to get a further supply ready for 14th March.</span></span><br />
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wander around the woolly goodness on offer, and those that <i>don't</i> to go
off exploring the cliff walks and harbour and <a href="http://www.numberfourgallery.co.uk/" target="_blank">Number Four Gallery</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And now my days till <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.edinyarnfest.com/" target="_blank">Edinburgh Yarn Festival</a></span> are dwindling quickly... So much yarn and fibre still to dye, and some tarting up of display props to be done. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My brand new knitting kits are all sorted and soon to be packed. I've chosen to use sturdy cotton canvas bags which I have indigo dyed, so they can be re-used for small projects. Each contains lovely smooth bamboo needles and not one but two patterns. </span></span><br />
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Tarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16573486103107798262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35453908.post-59166198820954998482015-02-07T20:54:00.002+00:002015-02-07T20:58:24.406+00:00A Package from Pushkar<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Receiving parcels is almost always fun although in this household they are as likely to contain vital parts for the wellbeing of Land Rovers as textile-related treasures. <span style="color: #990000;">However the one this week was well stitched into its cotton protective jacket which was a bit of a giveaway - <i>Indian Treasures!</i></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I cannot tell you how much these designs please me. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I was privileged to meet Ajrakh block printers in Gujarat. The numerous complex processes involved in the creation of the fabrics is fascinating to learn about but the speed and dexterity with which the block printing itself is carried out is humbling.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So it was lovely to get my hands on these lengths of richly coloured fine cottons from Rajasthan. The bottom one is traditional - a square repeating block that is symmetrical in each direction - while I think the top one more contemporary but well balanced and equally pleasing to the eye. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> I realise there's been over a month's gap since my last post here. There are many reasons for my absence but I find myself posting more on Facebook now, and plan to open a Border Tart page there soon. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">When is soon? It is immediately after I get my yarns into an online shop! Photographs have been taken which is real progress, and I think initially I am going to re-open my Etsy shop and list the yarns there. Ultimately I want them on my website but I have too many irons in the fire presently and no ability to cope with tech-speak.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">One of them is the cottage - You can find it at <a href="http://www.oldtearoom.co.uk/">www.oldtearoom.co.uk</a> and on Facebook (just search for The Old Tearoom, and please <i>like</i> us!) as well as on <a href="https://www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/5119655?s=_1Gs" target="_blank">airbnb</a>. Soon it will be on other holiday let websites too. As I write this we have our first guests through airbnb, and they are happily ensonced in front of their fire tonight, making a pleasant change from their city flat-dwelling life.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Well on Friday 13th there's a private view of the <a href="http://www.peeblescreativeplace2014.com/event/working-perspectives-artists-workplace" target="_blank">Working Perspectives</a> exhibition at Peebles, so I will have to tidy myself up and look presentable as the great and the good (<i>and</i> participating artist/maker friends) look at the results of our labours. I am looking forward to seeing everyone else's work. It runs until April 11th at Tweeddale Museum & Gallery.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And in no time I'll be off to St Abbs for the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/St-Abbs-Wool-Festival/231205380368994?fref=ts" target="_blank">Wool Festival</a> on the 28th. Stallholders will have new products to launch and some bargains to offer on older stock too so do enjoy a day out to the coast and come and see us all!</span></span></span></div>
Tarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16573486103107798262noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35453908.post-39316902696398990062014-12-29T13:03:00.001+00:002014-12-29T13:03:01.627+00:00Dressing Up - <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Tarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16573486103107798262noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35453908.post-85103057574333533262014-12-23T17:23:00.002+00:002014-12-23T17:23:19.418+00:00Peace and happiness<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">In the face of so much suffering, near to home and far around this unsettled world, many of us have such a lot to be grateful for.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">Thank you to friends, neighbours, acquaintances, even a few family who see my posts here, for the love and laughs and good cheer through the year. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">And to all the delightful textile-inspired visitors to my various stalls who have stopped to talk and buy my products, thank you too.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">May you enjoy the festivities over the next wee while and have a safe and peaceful 2015.</span></span></span><br />
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Tarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16573486103107798262noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35453908.post-71678935572205194162014-11-30T16:39:00.002+00:002014-11-30T16:39:35.241+00:00Blue Moon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We're all on a helter-skelter, hurtling towards the end of the year - that's how it feels here! After last weekend's excellent Art & Design Fair at Kelso, this one has been about getting tasks scored off the endless lists. The last few jobs done on the cottage, ready for a holiday couple arriving Monday, delivering more handmade wooden lampbases and shades to the delightful Coldstream Gallery, photographing work, oh and making a stack of bacon rolls first thing this morning for participants in an off-road driving trial that Hugh is running.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Next Sunday 7th December is the final Woolgathering of the year. I hope there's a good crowd of us to enjoy a knit/spin/stitch and a cake or two...</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Sunday after that, 14th, we'll be holding a great wee food fair in Southdean Hall. There are some intriguing stallholders coming along with all manner of tasty treats - everything from wine and wine coolers to fresh baked bread and Christmas cakes, marshmallows and olives! 10am till 2pm, </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Isn't this covetable? Knitted by a talented textile friend in luscious Blue Moon 4-ply Blue Faced Leicester yarn, its a design by Jared Flood.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This rather simpler knit is a cushion I have designed which uses two contrasting skeins of my Blue Moon merino dk</span></span></span><br />
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Tarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16573486103107798262noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35453908.post-1621970603910083042014-11-10T21:50:00.000+00:002014-11-10T21:50:27.288+00:00Off to the Fair(s)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">...and first along is the small-but-perfectly-formed Southdean Christmas
Gift Fair just along the road from Tart HQ this Saturday 15th November. If you can come along we would be delighted to see you. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Very closely followed by a rather larger affair - the highly regarded Art & Design Fair at Kelso over both days <i>next</i> weekend</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The week in Assynt was wild and wet on the outside, warm and filled with lovely cooking aromas on the inside. We cooked up a storm in the kitchen, creating tasty healthy food for everyone and sharing many many laughs. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The rain did not stop the hardier members of the group from getting out and exploring the terrain. Others could not be parted from their knitting and carried on intricate work with beautiful yarns. I'll save my knitting efforts for another post(!), but I did get a few skeins of yarn spun.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Some of us also opted to take a spoon carving workshop run by Chris Goodman. It was challenging work with unfamiliar tools but we all produced creditable spoons, in alder, birch or willow. </span></span><br />
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Tarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16573486103107798262noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35453908.post-62969992372775690272014-10-16T16:46:00.002+00:002014-10-16T16:49:25.544+00:00Home and Away<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I'm off north in a few days, to share a big house with a lot of talented women who will be wielding pointy sticks and using gloriously hand dyed yarns created in the workshop of<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: magenta;"><a href="http://ripplescrafts.com/" target="_blank">this alchemist</a><span style="color: #0c343d;">!</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I'll have images to share of the dramatic setting in Assynt but in the meantime, here are a few from the last foray north, when Hugh was training mountain rescue personnel in offroad driving techniques.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We stayed in a cottage on the <span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.alvie-estate.co.uk/" target="_blank">Alvie estate</a></span><span style="font-size: large;">,</span> a few miles south of Aviemore. The setting could not have been better for us. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Above is fearless tracker dog Ash, intently studying a potentially deadly moth or similar behind the cottage. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And below is a typical game with both animals. Midge enters into the spirit of it 200% while Ash finds something much more important to do and is deaf to all commands.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> We were fortunate to have lovely early autumn weather; early mornings were gentle misty affairs.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And to finish, here's my newest Blue Moon yarn - Luna Laceweight, a mixture of baby alpaca, silk and cashmere. Seen here in 'before' and 'after' shots.</span></span></span><br />
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Tarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16573486103107798262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35453908.post-48178286572966196162014-10-10T21:30:00.001+00:002014-10-10T21:30:36.335+00:00Just dropping in...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">After a gloriously busy Yarndale I have been dyeing yarns, stocking up on buttons, spinning, planning and generally chasing my tail. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Tomorrow I am off to join in Dumfries Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers' Gathering which is open to visitors too. Contents of the Tart's stall are ready to be loaded into the car in the morning, along with wheel and fibre so I can spin while I mind the shop.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Do you like the yarn? It was spun for the lovely Riikka in Finland who emailed me today to say that it had arrived. She called it beautiful, gorgeous and amazing so I think she's pleased with it :)</span></span><br />
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Tarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16573486103107798262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35453908.post-84960614279849078892014-09-20T19:41:00.001+00:002014-09-20T19:41:26.293+00:00Blue Hands are Cool<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">...they mean lots of indigo dyeing is happening. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Major stockpiling is going on here in preparation for the next great event which is <a href="http://yarndale.co.uk/" target="_blank">YARNDALE</a> in Skipton next Saturday and Sunday 27/28th. The great busy yarn fair got off to a fine start last year and looks to be surpassing itself this time, with 180 stalls of textile loveliness. The Border Tart is nice and easy to find, at No 65, close to the Wharfedale entrance...just so you all know! </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">A little slice of woolly paradise, say the organisers, and who am I to argue?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">As well as indigo yarns, I will have one-off handspun skeins, lots of luscious wool/silk fibre blends for spinners and felters, oodles of buttons including unique glass ones made by <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Laughinglass" target="_blank">Laughinglass</a> near Kelso, wonderful Indian block print and woven stripe fat quarters, and as much else as I can cram onto my stall. It's going to be a wild weekend :)</span></span></span><br />
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Tarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16573486103107798262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35453908.post-54271271708976907972014-09-04T15:57:00.003+00:002014-09-04T15:59:43.207+00:00Cakes and Sales<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">What a fine weekend we had! It was grand to welcome friends old and new to Chesters as part of the Art Trail. I had fun encouraging visitors to pick up a pencil or two and design a blue sheep. The flock is substantial now, and I have plans for their reproduction... </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Our Macmillan pop-up coffee shop raised nearly £300. Big thanks are due to my generous helpers who baked and poured and washed and stayed cheerful throughout.</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The lovely little knitting book I have for sale</span></span></span></td></tr>
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Tarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16573486103107798262noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35453908.post-9410381163802479952014-08-28T13:13:00.002+00:002014-08-28T13:13:42.086+00:00Art Trail Eve<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I've had a busy time arranging, and rearranging, and fussing about to get my new workspace sorted for the next three days' public viewing.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The cottage living room has tables and chairs and sofas at the ready for coffee shop business, and there have certainly been a few cakes baked. You can enjoy your refreshments surrounded by large canvases painted by Hugh, and smaller stitched silk and paper by me. All lit by a lovely wooden table lamp or two or three with handmade shades.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> So really, if you want to see more, just mosey along. Hugh will be in his cabin, showing new work and some daft bargains, I'll be in my workspace and you'll surely smell the coffee. If in doubt follow the arrows! </span></span></span></div>
Tarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16573486103107798262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35453908.post-19669650675369533232014-08-22T09:26:00.001+00:002014-10-10T21:19:41.476+00:00Exhibitionists<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Yesterday I travelled to Edinburgh and mingled briefly with Festival crowds as I visited various excellent exhibitions - </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">India Street was my main reason for travel, and a date with Lokesh Ghai, assistant curator of The Bombay Sample Book. This exhibition examines the book held in the National Museum of Scotland containing designs printed in Turkey Red. (India Street in the Vale of Leven, backed onto the factory that was the world's biggest producer of Turkey Red fabrics). Lokesh is one of seven designers, from India and Scotland, who were invited to explore the archive, consider the historical and political impacts of the industry and produce contemporary work. It's on until 11th September at <a href="http://www.gayfield.co.uk/" target="_blank">Gayfield Creative Spaces</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">A few steps from Gayfield is <a href="http://www.mcnaughtansbookshop.com/contact.html" target="_blank">McNaughtan's Bookshop</a> at the top of Leith Walk. In their lovely little gallery space is beautiful paper work by tapestry artist <a href="http://www.jomcdonald.co.uk/" target="_blank">Jo McDonald</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">This image does not do the scale or delicacy, or constructive challenge of her work justice. Go see!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Dodging torrential showers and dazzling sunlight, I strode off along George Street to catch the <a href="http://www.craftscotland.org/summershow/" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">Craft Scotland Summer Show</span></span> </a>too. Here there are mini displays by lots of Scotland's finest, including local jeweller<span style="color: #38761d;"> <a href="http://www.fionaluing.co.uk/" target="_blank">Fiona Luing</a></span> (who could resist silver ear studs listed as 'teeny', 'tiny' and 'small'?) and silk weaver <span style="color: #45818e;"><a href="http://www.dorothystewart.co.uk/" target="_blank">Dorothy Stewart</a>,</span> based in Lockerbie, whose work is understated and elegant.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Finally, this was a thought-provoking reminder of the price paid in so many ways by our predecessors, and that being paid this minute in war-torn communities.</span></span><br />
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Tarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16573486103107798262noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35453908.post-67175489553774679922014-08-16T10:13:00.000+00:002014-08-16T10:13:00.238+00:00Art and Tart Time Again!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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delighted to see you here at Chesters - there are new paintings in
Hugh's cabin, a whole new room for me and my textiles and a pop-up
coffee shop full of craftwork and cake!</span></span></div>
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Tarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16573486103107798262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35453908.post-62925169081061602252014-07-27T22:29:00.000+00:002014-07-27T22:29:08.790+00:00Frustration<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">..brought about by deathly slow broadband in Chesters. We are struggling with download speeds of about 1MB and uploads generously displaying as 0MB which is deeply frustrating. Complaints lodged with BT. Answers awaited. Sigh. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Meanwhile, in other news, it was a gloriously sunny couple of days at the Border Union Show where the Tart was happily ensconced in the Wool & Water Tent with great textiley friends. The crowds were sometimes a little less than impressed at the humidity levels in said tent but Saturday was more comfortable than Friday for us and wool-related sales did still happen.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And my workspace is filling up. Here (with gracious broadband acquiesance) are some highly selective arty shots while it still looks half empty and tidy.</span></span><br />
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Tarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16573486103107798262noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35453908.post-26014141442479048222014-07-18T21:58:00.001+00:002014-07-18T21:58:37.731+00:00Good intentions<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ooops, where's this month disappearing to?</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #38761d;">I nearly have an operational new workspace. This <i>will be</i> really exciting and uplifting and generally A GOOD THING. At the moment, though, there are too many tasks preventing me getting in there and enjoying it.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">For example - housing everything. The simple fact is that I have <i>too much stuff</i>. I am trying to be realistic but sentiment gets in the way of quick decisions, and good intentions slow things further (I <i>could </i>use all that salvaged junk to make a really cool something or other, couldn't I?)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">However, the recyling wheelie bin is full to bursting and Selkirk's Scrap Store will become a major beneficiary next week. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stephen Pearce, potter to the stars - his empire is rather larger than the shopfront suggests</td></tr>
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Tarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16573486103107798262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35453908.post-12569729039790267992014-07-01T20:15:00.000+00:002014-07-01T20:15:14.318+00:00Overseas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Just back from an all-too-brief trip across the Irish Sea. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Blessed with pretty fine weather, we drove from Belfast right down to Co
Cork and stayed a few days in a perfect little converted barn. These
images are just a taster of the many I snapped as we walked and drove
around. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">nearest neighbours</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">can you smell them?</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">no wonder we were loathe to leave</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">waiting at Ballymaloe Gardens</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kilkenny Castle, where we stopped en route north</span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ballycotton Bay</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There's so much to see even in the one county that we will definitely be going back for major explorations.</span></span> </div>
Tarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16573486103107798262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35453908.post-16582433830499225312014-06-20T18:58:00.001+00:002014-06-20T18:58:55.759+00:00Glorious June<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">How easily we all slip into summer mode - expecting to wake each morning to warm dry days. I think we are well practised in the art of relishing every minute, knowing only too well the huge variety of alternative climates we will wake to the rest of the year...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I was in Peebles for a few hours on Thursday, meeting my Working Perspectives hosts. Hugh grabbed a lift and went cycling off along the quieter roads for a while.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.eastgatearts.com/content/creative-place-3-open-competitions" target="_blank">Peebles – Creative Place</a></span> is a year-long programme of events which aims to bring creative work into public spaces,
work places and private houses so that everyone living in, working in,
or visiting Peebles in 2014 has unexpected chances to experience the
arts.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Working Perspectives is a project that takes individual artists into all sorts of businesses and workplaces in the town. I have been paired with the Castle Warehouse and I love it! On Thursday I met lots of the staff and saw behind the scenes. Everything from attic offices to cellar storerooms, and even a secret painted vennel. So much scope for inspiration. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Over the next few months I will travel up and down to the town as I work on the pieces I want to create. I may give you sneak peeks if I am brave enough.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Home again and Hugh has set to work to create a doorway into what will be my new workshop. This is hugely exciting for me. Tart HQ has been quirky and fun to work in but this space will suit me better. The caravan will be up for grabs in another month or two (ideal playroom/hideaway/spare accommodation - wired and with working gas fire and hob...)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">Off out tomorrow. A long long awaited trip to Bridge of Allan to the one day wonder that is <a href="http://www.worldtextileday.co.uk/" target="_blank">World Textile Day - Scotland</a>. A handful of highly regarded traders and a couple of talks which promise to intrigue and inspire. My pal and I are heading off early to ensure we get seats for the first talk!</span></span><br />
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Tarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16573486103107798262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35453908.post-84137198742626885892014-06-16T14:58:00.001+00:002014-06-16T14:59:36.640+00:00Cut and punched <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
.<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">. and folded and assembled. All in a day's (entertaining) work at Roberton on Saturday. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I led a thoroughly enjoyable workshop at the Forman Hall. It was a claggy rainy day - no fun for gardening, or sheep clipping, or much else outside so we were all pleased to spend our time creating masterpieces from salvaged papers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We started with simple notebooks punched and bound with bamboo skewers
and elastic bands, and proceeded to fold-out books with covers and ties,
and folded album pages which linked together, ready to display photographs. The most popular were
the zigzag constructions; the inventive group were soon adapting them to
all sorts of purposes and conjuring up new ideas.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As the afternoon progressed everyone seemed to work faster and faster -
such industry! Maybe it was the chocolate digestives. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Normally I am pleased when participants go away with one
finished object and another in progress but this gathering produced
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Elsewhere, spinning continues and button packaging, and decorating of the cottage. None of the latter is very photogenic but I will being showing it off as and when rooms merit it. After all, you may want to stay there some time and enjoy a wee break in this lovely part of the world.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Here's another yarn-in-progress to be going on with.</span></span><br />
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Tarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16573486103107798262noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35453908.post-132582428933073422014-06-02T19:56:00.002+00:002014-06-02T20:08:39.056+00:00Textiles Rock!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So much good <i>stuff</i> happens round textiles, it's uplifting. Maybe it's a very basic human need for warmth and reassurance; sometimes it's an equally powerful need to make, to be creative, to conjure something beautiful from the mundane. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Whatever, it's there in abundance when you look closely.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">At Dingwall's Highland Wool Festival I had a great time yarning with all sorts of happy people who flocked to the event. My handspun sold, my buttons sold, but what I particularly loved was that my indigo yarn was so popular. I foresee much dyeing in the next few months as well as planning of the online shop for my website.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Recently I had an e-mail from B, a lady more normally creative in other fields. She had seen my Indian block print packs and kits and wondered if I would sell bigger pieces. She went on to order enough to make herself a quilt, to fulfil a long-held dream to recreate a quilt she remembered from childhood.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The multi-talented <a href="http://carlenrig.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Pat Douglas</a> attended a <a href="http://warpedworkshops.co.uk/" target="_blank">Warped Workshop</a> run by Ali at the weekend, where she learned to block print on fabrics. Before you could blink she was home and stitching into her newly created linen fabric, and loving it!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This weekend too, I had an e-mail from a Finnish lady enquiring about my handspun yarn - so pictures will be wending their way to her tonight.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Yesterday I spent a happy afternoon in the garden with two dogs for company, spinning yarn. </span></span><br />
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Tarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16573486103107798262noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35453908.post-50813731738969990722014-05-21T21:12:00.002+00:002014-05-21T21:12:35.953+00:00Northern Exposure<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Heading up to Dingwall on Friday with a jam-packed car in readiness for Saturday's <a href="http://www.highlandwoolfestival.co.uk/" target="_blank">HIGHLAND WOOL FESTIVAL</a>. Such a wealth of textile talent will be on display, and as makers keep posting sneak peaks of their products online I find myself saying 'must go and see them.... and their stall and ...ooh, look at that, I just have to meet that weaver, that stitcher, that dyer...'</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Fortunately my good friend will be there to help The Border Tart so I can make sorties out to other stalls during the day.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I was delighted by sales of hand spun at Art@Ancrum but it does mean that although I have spun for long hours in the last fortnight my stock of skeins is not overly generous.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">the yellow skein on the left only just made it in - it was still on the line at 3pm</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">On the other hand I have dyed a lake's worth of indigo so Blue Moon yarns will be well represented. And I have lots of lovely buttons, of course, including some delicious new lampwork glass buttons that I collected from <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Laughinglass" target="_blank">Laughinglass</a> today right here in the Borders.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I made the momentous (for me) decision to cut up the fabrics I brought back from India into fat quarters and half metre lengths, and they are heading north with me too. I wonder if Dingwall is ready for block prints...</span></span></div>
Tarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16573486103107798262noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35453908.post-8988371581869968562014-05-15T16:08:00.000+00:002014-05-15T16:08:02.619+00:00Today has been...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">...a mixture of some of this</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">chunky merino yarn emerging from indigo dyebath</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">and this</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">lightweight blockprinted cotton tied, indigo dyed and drying on the line</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> and a little of this </span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">washed skeins of handspun in the breeze</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> and quite a bit of this</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">grateful thanks that some things here happen by themselves</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Tomorrow will be more of the same and getting organised for an early start on Saturday. <a href="http://warpedworkshops.co.uk/" target="_blank">Warped </a>will be off to the North East Embroiderers Guild Regional Day with our wares. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: magenta;">Little plug - still some spaces left on the <a href="http://warpedworkshops.co.uk/" target="_blank">Warped</a> workshops coming up next Saturday 31st, both involving block printing so lots of opportunity to get messy....</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And on Sunday a Woolgathering - It will be lovely to catch up over stitching, knitting and cake!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So happy that it was dry and breezy today. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Twenty two blue skeins hanging on the line, from palest 'summer sky with clouds' to deep ocean shades. All had a fine airing and are almost ready to twist together and label up. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A batch of new indigo products was also drying quietly but I am not ready to reveal them yet..... ;)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Last weekend was great! I had a fine time at Art@Ancrum, welcoming a wide range of visitors into the little barn beside the shop. Lots of oohs and aahs at the pile of indigo yarns on display but some lovely appreciative comments about my framed artwork too. I spent my days spinning and chatting, with occasional forays to the shop for coffee. All of the artist participants were pleased at the sheer numbers of visitors and I was very chuffed by surprise visits from far-travelled textile friends on each of the three days. Thank you all for coming to see me!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hugh had a strenuous weekend of biking and hiking for Maggie's Cancer Care Centres. He and his team mate managed the undertaking in a very creditable time. He suffered no ill effects except tiredness and is now considering a different bike/walk challenge for next year... </span></span></div>
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