๐๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐ญ ๐๐จ๐๐ค๐ฅ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐จ๐ญ๐ญ๐๐ ๐๐ฌ, ๐๐ซ๐จ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ ๐ญ๐ณ ๐๐๐ด๐๐๐, ๐ฎ-๐ฐ๐ฝ๐บ
๐ก๐ ๐๐ฎ๐น๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐ฟ๐ returns with their wonderful birds of prey,
Christine of Kiri Cottage Crafts will be sharing her baking skills with ๐๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฎ ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ด๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐น๐ฒ for sharing.
And, the entertaining ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐น๐ต๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ will be bringing the past alive
Inspiring Yarns in Newtownards has a lovely selection of wool, and plenty of other craft supplies. Well worth a visit!
We have now become an ‘unincorporated constituted group’, and renamed ourselves ‘The Makers’ Moot’. The main aim of our group is to help retain, share and promote local heritage, and other crafts by increasing our skills and knowledge as a group. By becoming a group such as this, we can apply for relevant grants so that we can learn more crafting skills.
As part of Ards and North Down Council’s Creative Peninsula, craft demonstrations were set up in the North Down Museum in Bangor on Sunday 3 August.
I brought several lucets, a Scandinavian braiding tool, for demonstration. Lots of chat with interested visitors, and a few who tried it out Lucets were used to create decorative braids and trimmings for clothings and household, and also to make more practical cordage and fine rope.
Ards and North Down Council kicked off Creative Peninsula on Friday 1 August in the square in newtownards. A number of us did some demonstrations in the Arts Centre, offering opportunities for the visitors to have a go at the crafts on display.
I had brought a number of peg looms and had plenty of customers, aged from under 10 to over 80.
Peg loom weaving is fun, easy to learn and provides an opportunity for creativity.
I had a lovely morning on Thursday with Molly, over from England and staying with her daughter Zoe for a couple of weeks.
An experienced knitter, Molly was interested in the Scandinavian craft of nalbinding. So we spent a couple of hours nalbinding, between cups of coffee and homemade cherry and lemon scones, and soda bread.
I was given about 20 fleeces this morning from a local farmer – a very welcome gift.
The first job to do is to ‘skirt’ the fleeces which involves removing both the very dirty fleece, and the shorter and weathered parts of the fleece as using these would create a poorer quality yarn once spun.
We have now renamed our club ‘The Makers’ Moot’, and are setting it up as an unincorporated constituted group and hope to be able to apply for grants, once our bank account has been finalised, so that we can access craft courses and learn new skills.
Be a creator, not just a consumer.
I was up at Equine Halfway House, a charity that I support, (and a number of my crafting friends also support it) this morning with a friend who is looking to adopt a pony as companion for her horse. Her old horse had passed on recently.
