Another wool rug woven with Jacob carded wool...done

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By nature...

Had a super weekend at The Big Day Out, which is Humble by Natures 2nd year of festival fun....a festival on a farm that is small enough to be personal yet big enough to loose yourself for a while in all the activities and workshops, music, cookery and so much more, without bumping into everyone else there.

Super grounds for camping, facilities second to none, very, very well organised.

I held weaving workshops all weekend, peg loom weaving with Welsh wool making seat mats and hand held loom weaving to create wall hangings.

Everyone that took part created something unique and wonderful.

Great fun and learning had by all.

Hammock fun...

...lovely way to enjoy one of my rugs.

I was asked to make this peg loom rug by a customer for this very purpose.

Think it looks great and I know from experience that it will be very hard to leave the super cosy comfort of pure Welsh wool.

Happy hammock lounging

Xxx

Busy bee...

...getting stock ready for Wonderwool Wales. A fabulous event of all things wool related at the end of April at Royal Welsh Showground, Builth Wells, mid Wales.

I always think I have planned well ahead, am on track with making stock, dyeing wool, hand spinning yarn, weaving rugs and carding fleece ready for kits....and then it's April and I feel a lump in my gut as I try hard not to PANIC as time ticks on by, far to quickly!.....

I can only do what I can do I have consoled myself....nothing I sell is bought in, nothing commercial, just me, a tin bath for washing fleeces, spinning wheel to spin yarn, drum carder for combing wool and a simple loom for weaving. All dyeing is done on the Rayburn in small batches and plant stuff harvested by hand seasonally. It's the way I like to be, perhaps not the greatest business model, but I can't produce my products any other way. I have a passion to keep things as natural and honest as possible.

....soooo here I am running about the place, washing fleeces, and packing up beautiful, natural coloured wool....loving it....but needing a bit more time.....

What will be will be......

Washed some lovely old hessian sacks today ready to be filled with carded wool for loom kits....

Am happy....in a slightly anxious way...not stressed as such, not yet!

Xxx