November heralds the first of the Christmas Fair
season! At least I tell myself it's the start but really I think it
started in October! On Sunday, last, we went to one of our
favourite venues, Scorton, in Lancashire. It's a pretty little
village with a vibrant community and we always get a great welcome
there. Unfortunately, for us, although there were lots of
people, we didn't sell an awful lot - made up for by the fact that we met up
again with old friends such as Michelle Clift, Independent Phoenix Trader, who always seems
to buy one of my notebooks - she didn't let me down this time either. We
had another fair in a large office building in Liverpool on Thursday
lunchtime - a great space, light and airy and quite busy. This
weekend we’re off to the Unitarian Church in Ullet Road, Liverpool – it’s a
beautiful building and we always have a good day there.
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During the week I've been completing a few ufo's
- that's unfinished objects, - anyone who makes craft items always has lots of
them lurking at the backs of cupboards, drawers and other dark spaces.
It's always good to complete them and move on to the next project.
Speaking of which, I've finished another woven scarf – cream and green this
time. A friend and I had a whole day,
last week, with an experienced weaver who taught us the correct way to warp a
loom – it looks so easy when an expert does it – I’m still stumbling along but
at least now I know what I should be doing.
I’ve had a couple of sessions of feltmaking this week too – it’s really self-indulgent - I love it. I intend to stitch into both of them and then I hope to make book covers from them.
Liz and I had a little try at marbling recently, very successfully on paper but less so with fabric. I think we are going to have to do some more experimenting although the results are still usable in patchwork - nothing gets wasted here!
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