Getting away

From this (rather dreary) town for a little bit should be nice - going to stay with my Nanna in Staffordshire tomorrow for 3 days. Hopefully it won't rain so we can have our traditional visit to Dovedale in the Peak District, and do some work on the farm - mow the lawns, cut the hedges, mulch all the flower beds, and any other little jobs that need doing - normally bonfires are heavily involved! The forecast isn't amazing though, so I'll be taking some felt and sewing supplies with me in case of downpours!!
Then it'll be a busy weekend when we get back, craft market (aaah!!!!) on Saturday, and a kind of 'leaving party' type thing in the pub that night for all of us leaving here to go to uni - will be nice to see everyone, but terribly sad as well, since many of them I won't see again for quite some time, if ever in the case of some people. :(

Last week Katrina of Tomato Tea blogged about a yarn making mishap, and I rather cheekily asked if I could buy some of the resulting fibre... Katrina was lovely and wouldn't take money for it, but we agreed on a trade, and I made her a custom wool brooch in return for this absolutely amazing green fibre! :)


It's (well, some of it is) currently waiting to be incorporated into a textile piece similar to the garden-y one in the first picture in this post.

When someone's 'mishaps' are this lovely, you can't possibly go wrong with their actual items! Check out Katrina's shop for beautiful hand spun yarn, hand dyed yarn and ace accessories!