The first and last stop was our favourite seaside town of Bridlington and this time we took the opportunity to call into the Bridlington Harbour museum after saying hello to the gansey girl.
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Just a quick roudn up of my knitting and spinning for the last two months, more of a record for myself than anything else.
Spinning, this is what hasn't yet been knitted. 3 skeins of bfl/texel, one skein bowmont (white) two skeins Shetland and two skeins Jacob
This hat should be off the needles tomorrow (31 October) so qualifies as a future October finish. Knitted from the bag of oddments which I am still trying to use up.
My needles should be empty by the first on November except a shawl that may or may not be finished :-)
Not so much fibre as thread, Bellingham in Northumberland proved to be a lovely small village and we have already booked the site for a return visit next year yo attend there annual music festival.
Lots of history to look track down around the buildings and a very good small museum containing a multiplication sampler,
a precariously placed sheep
Knitting memorabilia from WW11
I forgot to mention that the day before I was confined to bed, I travelled just outside of Nottingham to see a steam locomotive hauling a special train along the main line.
So many people gathered at the stations and crossings, who would not normally have known about it had it not been for social media, resulting in lots of happy faces of all ages.
On Saturday I headed down t the Pagan market to see Black Pig Border Morris.
Definitely noisier than the traditional Morris dancing usually seen locally :-)
Great energy bouncing off them :-)
Onwards to North Berwick, this was one of my favourite places on the trip and co-incidentally one where we spent the most nights although that was more down to the weather than anything else, 55 mph wind gusts aren't fun when you are over 10 foot high and shaped like a brick !!
Anyway, I met a lovely group of spinners, members of the Haddington spinners and weavers group, no photos but they gave me an invite to go to one of their meeting which I hope to do in the near future.
Yarn bombing was very much in evidence down by the harbour,
Now that I've pretty much recovered from the covid symptoms ( I never seem to teste positive but isolate anyway) I'm adding in a few details re textiles and fibres spotted on our last break.
First stop for thread related finds was Jedburgh, in the Jail to be more precise.
Well just over a week but I've been busy washing , sorting, cleaning out the van ready for next time and spinning.
We went on a road trip at the end of August for a few weeks. Started in our favourite seaside town of Bridlington and wandered off into the Scottish borders.
Bridlington was busy with holiday makers, sunny and warm.
The model village reopened this year so we walked down from the campsite and wandered round with our quiz sheets hunting for characters and buildings.
Full of anticipation, we packed up the van and moved north to Gretna, the next day it simply poured with rain. The van turned into a damp hovel with steaming clothes haha. The weather improved a day later so we set off to explore, Ian to the Devils porridge museum about 1st Word War munitions factory and myself into the village.
Next stop was Jedborough, famous for its abbey. Interesting campsite, long and thin with a track through it to the football pitches, early evenings could be lethal as parents picked up their youngsters from practise and totally ignored the 5mph signs.
Gentle walk into town by the river, small cafes and shops and a hill topped by the old jail.
We usually stay for three nights on each site unless the weather is too bad to travel so it was on to North Berwick next, what did I just say about the weather?
Finally, it cleared :-)
We both enjoyed being at North Berwick, we even stayed an extra night but that was due to the 55mph winds more than anything else.
Pretty place, friendly people and I did find some fibre type stuff but that's for a separate post.
