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 ...

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