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During the winter it gets too cold to work in my studio, the electric heaters can't keep the temperature up enough for me to work comfortably in spite of layers of jumpers and scarves!
So sadly everything gets packed away and tidied up, and my winter projects get taken down to the house to do in the evenings, usually hand stitching or knitting. workshops will start again in the spring when my outdoor dye kitchen will be set up and hopefully the dye garden will grow enough for me to harvest the plants to use, some of the plants are annuals and will ready for the summer but some will take a bit longer to mature and I may have to wait until next year for them. I hope that next year I will get better at blogging and also at instagram so more people can see what I am doing.
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After much deliberation, changing of minds and worrying wether it is right, today is the day I am finally letting Sarah (my daughter) put my website on line. Open studios is over and it is back to work in the studio and getting ready for a fundraising event there on Saturday, more of that later. I also have to get myself ready for my annual week at the NEC doing the masterclass at the Quilt festival, this year it is eco dying and indigo and I will let you know how that goes. meanwhile Sarah has decided that my studio is the perfect place to practice!  The Fundraiser went ahead despite the awful weather, we left the decisions late as we could but by 2pm it was obvious that we weren't going to have our pretty afternoon tea in the field. All the garden furniture was loaded onto the truck and the garage was laid out for afternoon tea, it was a bit of a scramble, but once everyone was seated and had a pot of tea in front of them all went well. We would never have managed if our lovely friend Kim hadn't manned the kitchen for us making endless pots of tea and coffee and washing up. I now have immense respect for waitresses everywhere! A big thank you to all who came and helped raise £587.60 for Nickys giving fund, this is sponsorship for sarah who is doing the wye Valley Challenge and walking from Chepstow to Hereford in one go, a distance of 100 K Thanks also go to those who made cakes and to The Pantry in St Briavels for supplying the cream at a discount for our cream teas. |
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