Walk and Weft — news

 Sunday 20th October 2019. This weeks walk involved catching the 9.45am train from Skipton in North Yorkshire to Dent in Cumbria, then walking over Great Knoutberry Hill to Ribblehead station. The train journey is on the well known Settle to Carlisle line, which is a 73 mile long railway line in the North of England. The route crosses remote scenic areas of the Yorkshire Dales and the North Pennines. What a great way to get into the Dales without the HASSLE of today`s needing-to-go-faster motorists. You can enjoy the spectacular view of the Three Peaks, Penyghent, Ingleborough and Whernside and...

At last we saw our second Hattersley loom start to product cloth earlier this year (see here).  Set up to make Plain or Tabby Weave . Ann has used the first cloth from the machine to make these nice and roomy'slouch` bags  which are ideal for storing WIPs and carrying medium / large projects Four colourful variations are available.

We have had a good 2 1/2 weeks in the Scottish Highlands, which clearly refreshed Ann greatly to come up with these gorgeous bags.  She loves trying different techniques and here has added a cluster of ribbon embroidered flowers.  The tweed has been woven with hand-dyed wool giving a nice variegated finish.   The smaller bag is 35GBP, the larger is 45GBP.

  We bought this loom in April 2018 and whilst it needed a fair amount of renovation, there was only one major problem with it:  it had been run on an electric motor by a previous owner, and for some unfathomable reason they had cut out the cranks for the pedals, leaving only a straight bar for the bottom shaft.  Our number one objective was to restore pedal power to this machine so we had to fashion some cranks and weld them in.   In this photo our first loom shows how the cranks look on the lower shaft, the rusty...

Ann has just finished these handy little toiletry bags in undyed tweed.  We think they are pretty smart and compact, and there's no doubt many other uses they could have - pencil case for starters! And also... we are really enjoying seeing patchwork squares come together into vibrant, interesting and useful objects.   These are larger than the toiletry bags, unique as always and look great. Ok, so they are not all square...