Walk and Weft

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...

The Zoe bag, now available, emerged from the same form as the Isabel Tote Bag, but uses semi-random coloured strips of tweed to form a unique distinctive whole. Both sides are different, and inside there's plenty of capacity for all your needs.

Having decided to name our bags after relations, we suddenly found that an Isabel bag had been sold... to Daniel's sister Isabel!  Of course the bag was named after her, and she said that her favourite colours were all there in the bag.  She did ask for a zip on it, so Ann went to work to figure this out.  The result is we now do have a zipped variation for the Isabel bag!