This week’s project at Ards Arts Centre was to crochet or knit ‘worry worms’. These little wiggly worms are packed into a pretty bag, along with an uplifting message, and the idea is to leave them in various places within the community – park benches, gateways etc where they can be picked up by members of the public.
We made St Valentine’s Day decorations at Ards Arts Centre on Tuesday evening. We wrapped wool around pre-cut wooden hearts, sewed hearts from fleece remnants and went daft with beads and ribbons.
This evening’s workshop at Ards Arts Centre was so much fun. We made St Brigit dolls from wool.
This has turned out as a lovely, bright wool. It is hand dyed Galway fleece. It is spun as a single and is very textured.
I am now spinning some raw fleece for a customer to knit an Aran jumper. She has asked that some lanolin is left in the wool, as that is what her customer for the jumper has asked for.
I have just finished spinning the pet sheep commission from yesterday. It was really successful and produced approximately 2 kg of lovely Aran weight wool ready for my customer.
I have plenty of spinning to do tomorrow. There will be need to go out into Storm Éowyn!
I have already washed two large fleeces, then they were picked and carded. Hopefully, I will have them spun by the end of the day.
Ards and North Down Council have again asked me to be part of their 10 week Spring Arts and Crafts programme, and I will be taking participants through a yarn based project each evening.
I am back on-line again after a few weeks recouping from hip replacement surgery in December.
All is going great, recovering well, and looking forward to running workshops and catching up with a multitude of projects, all currently at different stages.
I had a lovely session showing a group how to make rag rugs on peg looms this evening at Ards and North Down Borough Council craft class. This was a lovely session.
