The Stitchery of Catherine Hill, a Lancashire Lass
The Contemporary Craft Festival and the annual pilgrimage to Bovey Tracey will be here before we know it. It’s a brilliant place to meet new people and catch up with dear, like minded friends. For me, Festival 2018 was the best ever and I’m already panning next year’s trip.
As promised, here are just some of the goodies I purchased this year.
Continue reading “Contemporary Craft Festival 2018, Bovey Tracey – What came home with me!”
Contemporary Craft Festival in 2016 & 2017 had been so awesome that I just had to return again this year.
Queues were starting to build as I arrived with the sun shining and my festival ticket was in my hand. The queues were already starting to form and I was anticipating the chatting and shopping ahead of me.
At 10am, we were all allowed in. My perfect day at Bovey Tracey was about to begin. I had a note of the stalls I wanted to visit, devised a list of potential purchases, filled my purse with pennies and I was ready to go. Continue reading “Contemporary Craft Festival 2018, Bovey Tracey”
On Bank Holiday Monday, I was invited along with my fellow Feltmakers to Green Dragon Eco Farm. It’s was a joy to be part of Working with Wool.
The venue had a huge hall filled to bursting with lots of spinning wheels, wet felting, a table loom and lots of beautiful wool art pieces (many of the artists will be participating soon in Bucks Arts Week).
As part of the Feltmakers ‘team’, I was kept busy, setting up our stand and teaching wet felting ‘make-n-takes’, however, it wasn’t long before long I was distracted and started chatting to the other exhibitors – easily done! Continue reading “Working with Wool – Green Dragon Eco Farm”