A look back to the Knitting & Stitching Show

Hello and I hope you're keeping warm and cosy. I've been outside to break the ice in the bird bath three times today, at least, having also made sure I topped up the peanut feeders too. I'm still phone-less, therefore camera-less, so no new pictures of what I've been up to today. Which is a shame as I finished making a mini fabric garland and am pretty pleased with it. Oh well, that'll wait for another day. In the meantime I've been delving into past photos and decided to show these pictures instead.

I went to the Harrogate Knitting & Stitching Show back in 2017 (and there was me thinking I'd gone a couple of years ago. Crikey, time flies!) It was a great experience, masses of exhibits and inspiration and opportunities to shop. My photos aren't the greatest, but they're a record of what I saw that caught my eye. I'll say upfront that I don't always get the maker's name in the photo, which is a shame as I'd have much prefered to credit the stitchers/crafters/artists involved.

It was the bird - a raven I think - in the centre of this display that I admired the most. So much character in the way it's depicted.

More birds for us to appreciate.

This was an immensely powerful piece by Hilary Hollingworth, about the 17th century Lancashire witch trials. (More info about the Pendle witch trials can be found here, if you're interested.)

These fibre sculptures were strange but beautiful.

Admired this quilt, and especially those magpies.

More birds! I love this recreation of a Ladybird book cover.

And finally this exhibit was very pleasing. I even managed to get the signage in, didn't I?

Hope you enjoyed that brief virtual walk around the show. I think I ought to set an ambition for myself, to one day get something of my own work displayed there. No idea how I'd go about that, but it's always good to aim high. And after all, stranger things have happened ...

Comments

Taking a blog break ...

Hello! And goodbye, at least for now. The blog's on hold for a little while as I'm easing myself into 2026 gradually. I'm still stitching and reading and enjoying life with Badger the cat. Even though he treats my sofa like a giant scratching post!

Badger!

Here's Badger, looking like the little cutie-pie he is. He's settled in so well, is absurdly affectionate and eats anything and everything I put in his food bowl. The only fault I can find is that he likes to sharpen his claws on the side of my sofa. This is despite having two scratching posts, one of which is part of a cat tower that's taller than I am! I may have to try trimming his claws, but I don't know how Badger will react to that. Anyway, expect to see more photos of him, so sorry in advance for any of you who aren't feline fans. Apart from gazing in admiration at the cat I've continued to experiment with embroidery. I really can't decide whether this mainly pink piece of stitching is something I like or just a dog's dinner of a mess. This is another embroidery I've been stitching. Frankly, at the moment it looks like it should be lobbed straight into the bin. I'd painted with a mix of watercolour pa...

Final post for 2025 (I think. I mean, unless anything amazingly wonderful happens that I can't keep to myself any longer ...)

The days are marching by at record speed, and I've finally - possibly - bought all the presents I need to buy and written all the Christmas cards I need to send. I decided not to put up a full-sized tree this year as I'm convinced Badger the cat would simply view it as a climbing frame, and I'd find it toppled on a daily basis. Instead, there's a small green tree, and a simple white twiggy one that has lots of vintage baubles dangling from it. To be honest, I prefer the twiggy one, so the green tree might be permanently retired from now on. I've not gone crazy with the decorations, but there are various strings of fairy lights that look so pretty when they're lit. I have - between internet shopping and baking mince pies - made a little fishy pin cushion, decorated with seed stitches, French knots, chain stitch and stem stitch. I'm on the look-out for grey tweedy material to make another fish as I think that'd look better than plain ...

rubykittyruby

Search This Blog