Today is the late August Bank Holiday in England and Wales and the weather is gloriously hot and sunny (which is not always the case in the North-East of England and is often not the case on a Bank Holiday!) So I felt that this week’s post should have a summery textile theme.
My quilt group (Durham Quilters) held a mini-textile exhibition yesterday in the conservatory of Brandon Village Community Garden. The sun shone, the garden was glorious and the small quilts, embroideries, dyed samples and small textile sculptures glowed in the sunlight.
I made some hand-tied bunting in summery shades of lavender.
Last week, I was enchanted to see the work of another group of makers – ‘Hawes close KNIT friends’, who had yarn-bombed their town as a fun idea to please the summer visitors. Just look at this ‘cap’ on top of a letter-box:
Whole drainpipes were decorated (there are clearly both knitters and crocheters in the group):
Anyone who enjoyed it was asked to contribute to the group by leaving a donation – to go to local charities – in the pub on the high street (which I surely did). Obviously, the collecting box was woolly too:
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This is a new tea-towel design called ‘Fruit Cake’.Ā Ā You can find it here. It’s based on a 1940s recipe of my grandmother’s, taken from her handwritten recipe book.
Editor’s note: there is now a pattern for making the hand-tied bunting. Find it here
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