January 2012 (12)

Sunday, January 29 2012

Sunday Walks

With our visit to Tanera Mor on Friday I got a little behind with dyeing this past week, so I had intended spending the whole weekend in the dye shed, and I did - yesterday!  But today was just glorious, and I'm afraid the hills were calling too strongly for me to ignore.  My ignoring the dye shed  […]

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Friday, January 27 2012

Tanera Mor - Setting the Scene for a Retreat

Today dawned beautifully calm and sunny, which was perfect weather for our planned visit to the island of Tanera Mor.  Tanera Mor is the island that will host the 2 retreats planned for later this year in September, a joint venture between Tanera Mor and Ripples Crafts.We had arranged to meet Lizzie  […]

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Wednesday, January 25 2012

More news

Thank you for the wonderful response I've had via comments and e-mails and messages on Ravelry to the new na dannsairean yarn.  I'm very excited about it and have spent the whole day in the dyeshed dyeing up a storm today.   Here are the shades from todays work - the photographs are not great as I  […]

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Tuesday, January 24 2012

Na Dannsairean

We have been treated to the spectacle of the Aurora Borealis over the last few nights.   Perhaps it has not been the incredible display like you get in more northern parts, but a sight nonetheless:[caption id="attachment_4922" align="aligncenter" width="640"  […]

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Sunday, January 22 2012

Great chieftain o' the puddin-race!

Last night we were invited to friends to celebrate a Burns Supper.   I was slightly concerned before leaving, as it is traditional to do a "party piece" at such ceilidhs, and not being one who likes to be the centre of attention I always struggle to think of something to do.  So I was  […]

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Monday, January 16 2012

Not quite what I planned!

This blog entry was supposed to tell you that I had put some of Judith's stitch markers which I blogged about a few days ago in the shop, and that they were now available to purchase.  But ..... I put them up in the shop this evening, and my stock all sold out in 30 minutes!But fear not!  There are  […]

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Sunday, January 15 2012

Sunday Walks

It has been a very busy and eventful week, and I've had my head down all week doing different bits and bobs, but I was reminded very clearly by a piece in our local newspaper, The Assynt News, that we live in a remarkable part of the world and we really should not take it for granted.   The writer  […]

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Friday, January 13 2012

Cold and Sunny

After what feels like weeks and weeks of wind and rain, today dawned crisp, sunny and ice cold.  It was lovely!  We had blue sky for the whole day.  And of course one of the benefits of being self employed is that your boss never complains when you decide to take some time off for a walk.We set off  […]

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Wednesday, January 11 2012

New Things

Towards the end of last year I opened up membership to a new type of Ripples Crafts Yarn Club.  It is the Double Up Creativity Club.  The club runs for 3 months at a time and is only open for new members at the beginning of each quarter.  The first package when out last week, and I'm pretty sure has  […]

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Sunday, January 8 2012

Time Out

I must apologise for not posting very regularly over the last couple of weeks.    2011 was such a busy year, and I am afraid I decided to have some "me" time over Christmas and New Year, so not much was done in the workshop.  But we have been doing all the sorts of things you do when  […]

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Sunday, January 1 2012

First walk of 2012

The weather has not been very kind to us recently.   We have had gale, after gale, after storm, after gale, meaning the wind turbine has had to be switched off and lashed down to avoid being damaged in the dangerous gusts which have reached very high speeds.  But we could not begin a new year  […]

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Happy New Year!

As a welcome to 2012, I'm having a little giveaway in the shop.   I have a basket in my workshop that is full of yarns that, for various reasons, are not up on the shop site.  Some are bases I tested but didn't run with for one reason or another, some are colourways I no longer do, and some are  […]

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