Welsh Inspiration

It has poured down here all day again. I may build an ark and gently sail away stitching as I go to a land of loveliness.

In fact I have finished this Welsh inspired piece which has been made from hand-dyed Colinette Yarns, felted to a piece of flannel using my embellisher and some left over bits of thread which I dyed in August.

It really is like painting in textiles. I added some sequins as a focal point representing the silvery glinting water of the estuary.

It reminds me of the road where we had to stop while I shooed a sheep back into a field from which he'd made an unintentional gettaway!

The Spirit of Autumn

The Spirit of Autumn is in the air. At last the weather can officially be dank and misty without us all chirruping on about it not being right like this in August. September heralds the ripening of pumpkins in my book and that is cause to celebrate! To honour the season's colours I am knitting with this amazing hand-dyed Colinette yarn from Wales. It is warm, slubby and delightfully nubby! What's more it's my first knitting really so I'm enjoying it when the kids have gone to bed and there's no head space to think about sewing and no energy to do much else.

I played about with a drab image of Portmeirion with Picasa today and wonder whether to brighten all my other Welsh holiday photos up in the same way to change my memories of the holiday.

A kind of high tech version of "rose-tinted spectacles." Hmmm.

Anyway it might be an idea for a quilt some time, who knows?

Yes, Wales really is Wet

It's everything that it's cracked up to be is Wales. Great scenery though. Couldn't see much of it behind the clouds but the guide books tell you it's marvellous behind there. Thanks God. Anyway I had hoped to get lots of inspirational landscape shots for working on but the camera rusted. I did get this nice view though!
It's Lake Tal-y-Llyn and it was very moody yesterday.

To brighten things up I visited Colinette Yarns at Llanfair on the way home today which is a cornucopia of hand-dyed wools. I had a little woopsy with my credit card but it added a wonderful splash of colour to my memories of Wales!