glimpses of Nottingham

 I had to do some shopping in town so I popped into the castle to renew my annual ticket. After a coffee I had a wander around the grounds before heading back to the busy shopping streets.

I'm not sure whether these guys are cleaning or fixing the roof of the nearby building.

That's not snow although it could be mistaken for a ski scene

Meanwhile, back in town I remembered that we have many passage ways between the streets with steps.

It looks more like textiles or maybe that's just the way that I look at things. Here's the entrance to the same passageway looking towards the steps.

So much better than plain walls...........talking about plain walls, I noticed this beauty near Weekday Cross, I'm not sure how long its been there as I haven't been around this area for a while.

All in all, not too bad for a dull and dismal day.

the lace lady

 This is a project that I had intended to start in the summer but didn't get round to it. The lace lady was purchased in Dunster in the summer for the princely sum of £1.00.

My aim is to replace the lace on her dress ,and the lace that she is making, with handmade lace.

I've made a start, she now has a knitted shawl

and I've removed the price tag. I must see if I can sort the glasses out.

I'd not used my travel pillow for some time so I set up a very basic pricking, just 11 pairs of bobbins , to make a narrow band of lace.

I'm beginning to realise that my camera no longer likes to do close photography, been dropped too many times.

I also took the opportunity to replace the ribbon on my pillow with inkle woven bands, looks much better.

I realise that she  appears to have three very large bobbins. One fell off and is actually safe by my printer. I'm trying to think of a better way to do these and it may involve cocktail sticks at some point.

Goodbye November

 I set out to blog every day in November.................Fail

I set out to document tidying my work room.........Fail, well, ongoing

November ended with the AGM at our Guild of Weavers, Spinner and Dyers. Shortest AGM ever haha, then we chatted and admired each others work. We now seem to have a few more men joining us which is good and there are also nearly 50 of us, quite a healthy number .

Whenever we go out as a group to do a demonstration, we take various pieces of equipment including the Saori loom which we encourage people to have a go on.

A new member from Latvia bought in her knitted mittens

Many members are skilled at way more than one or two crafts,

Plait making with a difference

I'm not going to promise daily blogs for December  but back to at least once a week as I work through my stash and generally continue to slowly tidy up.