Falkland Street Fair 2012

You can find me and my work at Falkland Festival Street Fair tomorrow,

Saturday 23rd June, 11-3pm.

We had a great time last year and hope to have an even better time this year!

I will be sharing a stand with Kirsty again who will be doing on the spot Soap Rock Workshops.

Some new makes from me include this felt Box and Notebook.

 The felt was a bit of an experiment. I tried Nuno felting onto some polyester chiffon.

I had bought the chiffon for a different project but it turned out to be the wrong kind for what I wanted it for. No matter how much I tried hand felting it, the fibres just didn't want to cling to the chiffon. Turns out it's the wrong kind of chiffon for Nuno felting as well! So I threw the whole thing in the washing machine and this was how it came out. A happy accident indeed : )

In order to retain the lovely double sided nature of the nuno felt

I decided to make a wee box with matching notebook but didn't line either so that the loopy texture of the chiffon side can still be seen. Quite a soft and squishy box but the notebook fits snug inside helping it keep it's shape.

 I will also have a few Sheep In Boxes with me.

 Knitted felted sheep by Lynne Seaton at My Baboo

Along with some new Sheep pendants.



And one or two new felt pictures.



 Lupins by The Stream

£45

Wee Hoose In The Heather

£30

Cosy Cottage Among The Heather

£35

I've also been a bit distracted this week watching these Woodpeckers in the Rown Tree just outside the window.

The baby one wasn't managing to cling to the feeder so the adult male was feeding it on the branch.

The photo is slightly out of focus but it's so hard to get a decent photo of them as they fly away at the slightest movement.

I had to perform stealth moves up to the window to get this one plus it was windy outside and everything was moving about.

 

Turns out there is a third bird aswell. A slightly older juvenile. It's a bit of a bully though and tends to chase the smaller birds away from the tree.

In the few days that I've been watching, this young one has learned to feed itself though and now clings happily to the feeder.

 

 

 

 

Harris Tweedy Creations!

Lots of Tweedy goings on here this week!

You may remember the originals of these that I made back in April. Well they all went off to the gift shop Room 15 at 15 Stafford Street in Oban last weekend but I have had some printed into cards!

Washing Day

£2.50

Harbour Houses and Boat

£2.50

Set Sail For Sunset

£2.50

Home For Supper

£2.50

Harbour Houses, Boat and Fish

£2.50

Set of Four

£8

Island and Gulls

£2.50

These 12x12cm cards look great framed. This Island and Gulls design is really making me want to go back the Hebrides, especially when the sun is out here and I start day dreaming about all the amazing colours of tweed I could get my hands on!

The cards are all now available in my Etsy shop here

I'm hoping to get time to work on some more originals and make them available online too.

I can also make to order.

And here is something new and exciting and just a little bit cute.....

What's in the box? What's in the box?

A super cute hand knitted sheep!

This is a 'Baby Baa', hand knitted here in Scotland by Lynne Seaton of My Baboo.

I've been a big fan of Lynne's work for a long time and when I was toying with the idea of felting little sheep to go inside my boxes, I remembered a photo I'd seen on Facebook of some of Lynne's Baby Baa's that were off to be sold through a shop in Edinburgh.

Since my attempts at felting sheep were a bit disasterous (they just looked like big eyeballs!), I contacted Lynne and we agreed on a little collaboration.

So this is the first of my boxes available with it's resident Baby Baa.

£35

Lynne uses beautiful Scottish wool for her knits which go so well with the tweed used in the construction of the boxes.

Just click the photo if you would like to go to the listing.

More coming soon.

I also have these other boxes available in my Etsy shop as well.

£30

£25

And of course the cow's wanted in on the action.

This one has sold but there may be more soon.

No wee coo's hiding in here but a great place to stash your Highland Toffees!