Ist Craft Fair, whoopee!!!!

Hi, Sue here standing in for Wikkidknitter as his Internet connection has been AWOL for the last few days.
Last Sunday saw the Purple Bean Craft Fair in Nottingham, the first craft fair attended by Wikkidknitter. We turned up armed with loom , spinning wheel and plenty of fluffy things. Jewellery, woven key rings and cute felt brooches were also fighting for space on the stall.

Although there weren't too many shoppers around, a few sales were made and a lot of giggling when on between several cups of coffee. The loom and spinning wheel attracted attention as usual and encouraged people to stop and ask questions about what we were doing. I strongly suspect that this may be the first of many outings for the stall.

Hopefully normal service will be resumed before the next post xx

Playing with beads.

So, I got a little adventurous and decided that I was going to take some beads, thread and a beading needle to my local Knit and natter instead of some knitting (this is quite a regular occurrence, I usually take either some knitting, crochet, spinning or weaving, what ever takes my fancy for that day).
anyway, here's what I came up with.

Up next is a little dyeing experiment, I made a shawl for my sister last year (hand spun, hand knitted and then dyed) and she never found anything to wear it with so she gave it back and said I'd hate for it to spend its life hidden away... So me being me, I thought "I'm going to through some colour on it and see what happens" (I'd dyed it once already).

Before.

During dyeing.

And after, once dried and modeled by a lovely sculpture as part of Nottingham in Bloom (i think).