Etsy Shop opened

I am very excited, I have just opened an Etsy shop to sell my textile art. Please do visit it to see what I do and hopefully purchase something truly original! My Etsy shop name is Highfield Textiles.

Departures and arrivals

Last weekend we went to the Melton Mowbray Rare Breed Sale. We took 5 sheep to sell, 4 Shetland shearling ewes and a Shetland shearling tup. We sold all the ewes but the tup didn't make his reserve so he came home again!

I entered various classes in the Shetland Sheep Society craft competition and won the cup for the best craft exhibit! Very pleased. Below is a pic of the winning item, my cardigan in 2 ply laceweight yarn.

While we were away on holiday 2 of our chickens died so we bought two new ones at Melton Sale. They are young Buff Sussex hens - pics below. Hoping they are good layers as most of the rest seem to have stopped at the moment!

Talks

I have updated the list of talks I can give to local and regional groups about my textile work and about the sheep etc. Please see the talks page in the list to the right for details. I have added a new talk for 2017 about the embellished patchwork pieces I am currently working on.