Monday, June 30 2014
Monday, June 30 2014. Friends
Woolfest is over for another year. Hard to believe how it has just whizzed by! Yet again the Woolclip organised a lovely, friendly event. As usual I was very remiss in not taking enough photographs, and so I apologise as there are no photographs capturing other stands, or the animals, or even […]
Tuesday, June 24 2014
Tuesday, June 24 2014. Friends
I must apologise for it having been so quiet on the blog of late. I have been working all hours in the dye shed dyeing up a storm for Woolfest which takes place in Cumbria later this week. Added to that we have been back and forth across to the east coast with a very poorly Westie, and so time […]
Sunday, June 15 2014
Sunday, June 15 2014. Assynt
Because of Woolfest at the end of June, I am dyeing the club yarns a wee bit earlier this month so that they are ready to post on my return from Woolfest. If you were wanting to join either of the clubs currently running (i.e. the Post Office Run Yarn Club and the Assynt Storms Yarn Club), then […]
Monday, June 9 2014
Monday, June 9 2014. Dogs
This is a very special time of year in Assynt. The flora really begin to come into their own, and if you're lucky as we have been this year, you get an extra special display of wild flowers in June. During May we were treated to a bumper crop of primroses before the numerous bluebells and tiny […]
Thursday, June 5 2014
Thursday, June 5 2014. Orchids
This afternoon I played hookie, and went down to the McPhail Centre in Ullapool to see an exhibition which arose out of a project organised by Plantlife called Patchwork Meadow, which forms part of the Wildflower Europe project. Wildflower Europe aims to "conserve plant-rich landscapes by […]
Tuesday, June 3 2014
Tuesday, June 3 2014. Knitting
A couple of weeks ago I was sorting through yarn that was hanging in my drying tent, and I noticed that one of the hanks had a lot of grass and moss mixed up in it. We assumed it was because Stevan had been strimming the grass nearby and had thrown up grass which had got entangled. However, this […]
