Wonderful experience

[carole aka craftywoman]

Today I was at the Dyers, Spinners and Weavers Guild in Edinburgh, everyone has been working on the same piece of fibre to create a square, so as you can imagine there are woven, knitted, tapestry pieces, just lovely, they want to put them all together for promoting the guild and I have been asked to felt the centre-piece, so that was honor number one, then we had a talk by Debbie Zawinski about her book 'In the footsteps of sheep'

www.schoolhousepress.com/in-the-footsteps-of-sheep-1261.html

Not only did she go wild camping on her own around Scotland, from Orkney, to Shetland to the Outer Hebrides then down to the Borders, collecting different fleece all found; that was in the fields and the hedgerows but she spun it using hedgerow sticks and knitted socks - an amazing journey.

I came home feeling like I had been in a warm bubble bath, sitting around with about 25 others some spinning on wheels, some spindling, some carding with large brushes, some knitting all listening to Debbie telling her talks - joy :-)

[Teri Berry]

Congratulations carol, that is an honour indeed! As much as I love my local swad group I can't help feeling a bit of a fraud at their meetings, they're not really geared up for felters even though at least a third of the members make at least some felt. For a felter to be given pride of place is an accolade indeed, well done!

[lyn]

Well done Carole - I'd love to see a piccie of the final piece.

[carole aka craftywoman]

I will indeed :-) I think the plan is it's for a joint Guilders meeting in Broughton in August

[elizabeth]

Jun 18, 2016 15:57:56 GMT carole aka craftywoman said:

I came home feeling like I had been in a warm bubble bath, sitting around with about 25 others some spinning on wheels, some spindling, some carding with large brushes, some knitting all listening to Debbie telling her talks - joy :-)

Lovely, lovely. I just feel so happy reading this. Thanks for sharing.

[MTRuth]

Great job Carole! I look forward to seeing the finished piece.

[chookie2]

Warm fuzzies just reading reading your post Carole.The joy of good company and good vibrations comes through.

[luvswool and dyestuff]

Carole, so happy to hear about your group experience. Isn’t that what we all dream about?

[Shepherdess]

Sounds like a great group and a great evening. I cant wait to see what you make and how it goes together with the others.

[zed]

That does sound like a great group, I'm looking forard to seeing the finished piece too. I'd forgotten about that book, I heard about it a while ago, maybe before it was out and saw something recently that reminded me, but I didn't have the info to look for it, so ta for that

[koffipot]

Kudos Carole! What an honour. Look forward to seeing your piece and of course the whole thing with yours in pride of place.