Christmas shop

 I recently went to the historic village of Richmond in Tasmania to meet up with my Dad for lunch. While I was there I visited the christmas shop, Lafayette on bridge,

The shop is displayed over three floors in an old building on the main road. Narrow stairs , old wooden floors and history everywhere you look. Then there is the Christmas displays to take your breath away.

I went to the shop to buy a scandinavian styled St Nicholas table ornmament to add to my display. This is what I found inside.

I really loved these Grinch ornaments but I wasn't sure that they would fit in with my scandinavian style. The more I think about it, maybe I could make it work as I love the original movie.

This is only a fraction of what they have to offer. I ended up buying a mouse on a spool, called spools of fun it was a Tails with heart by Paul Lundberg. They also had a large range of Jim Shore santa ornaments which I also really liked. I may have to go back and see if I can find the santa ornament I was looking for.

Bishopstone yarns, sit and spin 30 #spinningpodcast

Episode 30 of Bishopstone yarns podcast is now up on youtube for you to watch.

Come and join me for some spinning and a chat. 

Bishopstone yarns episode 29

 Bishopstone yarns episode 29 is now up on youtube for you to watch.

I have some finished items and some works in progress to share with you all. I hope you enjoy sharing some crafty time with me as I talk about what I have been up to in the last few weeks.

Dont forgett to leave a comment and let me know what you are working on at the moment as I love to read about what everyone is making.

Episode 28

Episode 28 of Bishopstone yarns is now up on youtube for you to watch. I have added a little introduction to this video just to talk about the loss  of The Queen. I hope you all enjoy the spinning update and have found some time to do your own crafty making over the past few weeks.

I love reading and hearing about all the crafting you have been doing so leave a comment and I will be sure to read it.

 

Hand dyed yarn

 We were lucky enough to have a few nice warm days recently so I decided to do some dyeing.  After spinning up a jumper worth of wool during July for the tour de fleece I wanted to dye up some skeins so I can get ready to start knitting Birkin sweater by Caitlin Hunter.

I had carded a brown wool fleece with a white alpaca fleece to create a brown base colour but I really didn't want another brown jumper so I decided to over dye the main body skeins with apollo bay landscape dye (blue).

I then used some other landscape colours to dye other skeins to be used in the yoke pattern.

Episode 27

 Episode 27 of the Bishopstoneyarns podcast is now up on youtube.

I talk about my latest dyeing.  Some sock knitting and my danish shawl.

There is also some quilting and cross stitch progress as well.

Bishopstone yarns episode 25

 

Episode 25 of the Bishopstone yarns podcast is now up on youtube for you to watch. I hope you can join me while I chat about what I have been making, and the problems I have encountered along the way.