tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30116316085015166392024-03-21T11:44:11.142-07:00Starfish StudioStarfish Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320776141828496012noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3011631608501516639.post-73977591082127640572014-07-26T12:40:00.000-07:002014-07-26T12:40:10.157-07:00What's so great about Shetland?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Having just spent a week exploring Shetland, I've totally fallen in love with the place. </div>
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So, what was so great about it? Was it the wildlife...</div>
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The stunning coastline...</div>
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We visited a wonderful small woodland, Michaelswood, in which toys are left in various locations for children to play with. We spoke to the lady who created this amazing place in memory of her son. She said that cars and toys for the teddy bears' picnic don't go missing - kids put them back for the next person to use.</div>
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I did the walk with my dad<a href="http://www.justgiving.com/KateMandJohnH" target="_blank"> to raise funds for the PSP Association</a>. Neither of us are exactly super-fit, muscle toned athletes, so it was always going to be a challenge! Dad is 72 and has a heart condition, so we just had to take it at a steady pace, plodding on whilst the younger, fitter walkers zoomed past!<br />
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I won't ramble on with a blow by blow account, as it's probably the photos that you're more interested in seeing! Each day had its own unique features - beautiful woodland, pretty waterfalls, steep uphills, steep downhills, scrambling over boulders, crossing fast flowing burns, squelching through lots of mud, tramping along miles of old military roads etc.<br />
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Gorgeous, misty woodland at the start of our journey.</div>
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Dad on the approach to Conic Hill</div>
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The start of our walk along Loch Lomond - it's awfy long (about 24 miles) and the path is really difficult.</div>
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Black Rock Cottage, Glencoe</div>
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The view through my bedroom window at the Kings House, Glencoe.</div>
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Unspoilt Highland landscape, totally inaccessible by road - just wonderful! </div>
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Here we are on our final day, having just climbed a steep hill out of Kinlochleven.</div>
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The climb was well worth it for views like this!</div>
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Ben Nevis - we met several other walkers on our journey, a number of whom were planning to climb this giant the day after completing the walk.</div>
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A glimpse of Fort William at last - still several miles to walk though!</div>
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That last day was really tough - 16 miles on the hottest day of the trip. </div>
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Whilst I love having a studio area within my shop, I have been a bit bothered by the fact that the work table has scissors, pins, needles etc. lying on it unattended when I'm behind the counter. Add to that trailing wires from the sewing machine and you can see why I panic a bit when children come in to the shop - it only takes a second for a distracted parent to not notice what their wee one is doing.</div>
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Also, customers sometimes walk behind the table, not realising that my stash isn't part of the shop stock, and then often look a bit awkward when the penny drops.</div>
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As I'm ducking in and out of the working area all day, the solution had to be something easily moveable and that wouldn't take up lots of space when not in use.<br />
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At the Creative Stitches show (held earlier this year in Glasgow) I bought this ingenious thing.</div>
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It has to be one of the simplest tools there is!</div>
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You place wool (or whatever) into 7 of the 8 slots, feed the ends into the middle hole and tie them in a knot.</div>
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<br />Starfish Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320776141828496012noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3011631608501516639.post-62715781387569240622014-04-22T05:08:00.001-07:002014-04-22T05:08:54.402-07:00Dunnottar Castle<div style="text-align: center;">
I'm very lucky to live close to the magnificent ruins of Dunnottar Castle. </div>
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It has long been my favourite subject to paint, but I'm much happier with fabric and thread than with a paintbrush these days, so I recently made a textile version.</div>
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The distinctive buildings were cut from ribbon and fused onto the background fabric before being stitched into place.</div>
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The cliffs were cut from numerous different patterned fabrics, which were arranged to reflect the shadows on the rocky outcrop on which Dunnottar sits.</div>
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Thankfully I have since learned a lot about the order in which textile pictures need to be constructed, and the simple combination of Bondaweb and an iron, made the stitching part much, much easier this time!</div>
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The windows were all hand stitched onto the tower.</div>
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Ta da! Here's the finished piece.</div>
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<br />Starfish Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320776141828496012noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3011631608501516639.post-32533630902948557122014-03-14T04:03:00.001-07:002014-03-14T04:03:58.280-07:00Pantomime Mice<div style="text-align: center;">
Do you know what I love most about working with textiles? <br />
It's the simplicity of it all - with just a piece of fabric, some thread, a needle and your imagination, you can create something beautiful, practical or fun (or all three)!</div>
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The fabric in this case is a particularly boring, large expanse of grey felt.</div>
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We are exceedingly fortunate to have a very talented lady in Johnshaven - Karelia - who has the amazing ability to write pantomime scripts and bring them to life. Preparations are currently underway for her third pantomime, 'Jack and the Johnshaven Beanstalk'. She has recruited a cast of villagers who have been busy rehearsing for their three performances in the Village Hall at the end of this month. </div>
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Members of the community have contributed their time, energy and expertise to design the stage layout, plan, make and paint the scenery, organise the lighting, source/ make costumes and props etc. </div>
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What is particularly brilliant about this production is that it has given fantastic opportunities to some of the local teenagers. They have been involved in various aspects that will be of use to them in their future careers/ uni applications - for example, my younger daughter, Kirsty, has designed the posters, programme & tickets, a teen who's interested in working in the theatre has designed the stage set and another has organised all the lighting.</div>
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My older daughter, Eilidh, is appearing as one of two mice. </div>
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She won't actually be seen on stage (which suits her fine!) but she'll be operating a mouse puppet and singing. </div>
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I was asked to make the puppets. This is something I've never done before, but my recent experiments with old soft toy patterns have taught me a lot about 3D construction with fabric (using gussets and so on) so, safe in the knowledge that puppets could be purchased if I failed in my attempt, I agreed to have a go.</div>
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I did hunt online for patterns, but nothing was suitable. These mice have to have moving mouths and be large enough to be seen from the back of the Village Hall, but not so big that they look too out of proportion to the people on the stage. They have to be poked through a mouse hole on stage, and the puppeteers' arms mustn't be seen. </div>
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Before committing to buying felt I started with a prototype made from one of Eilidh's old school blouses.</div>
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The boring piece of grey felt was transformed into a fairly unidentifiable shape. </div>
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It only started to take on a mousey identity with the addition of these little circles of white and black felt.</div>
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It still didn't look very mouse-like at this stage...</div>
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...but the addition of ears, nose, whiskers and some touches of pink to the ears and mouth have done the trick! Their first performance is on Thursday 27th March - hope they don't get stage fright!</div>
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I had a wonderfully caring, loving gran who just happened to be a very talented seamstress. One of her proudest achievements was having made a dress that was worn on 'Come Dancing' on the telly! (My grandad had helped by stitching on hundreds of sequins - about as far removed from his RAF wartime experience as you could get!).<br />
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In her sewing room there was a huge cardboard box into which she threw scraps of material. With Gran's help I used some of these to make clothes for my teddies (most of which had been made by her) and various other bits and pieces from a very early age.<br />
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I have very few photos of my gran, Jennie Clark, but here's a rare one of us together. Shame we're not sewing!<br />
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Gran was very involved with the Derby League of Friends and she made lots of soft toys which were sold to raise funds for the local hospital. I can clearly remember stuffing teddies' arms and legs before she stitched them into place - we had a bit of a production line going on!<br />
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When I was in my teens, and sadly Gran was no longer with us, I discovered a shop in Sutton Coldfield that sold fur fabric and their own, hand-drawn patterns for making soft toys. I think I must have been one of their best customers because I made LOADS! I recently came across these old patterns again and started making animals once more. <br />
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Rather than use fur fabric, I'm giving my animals a more contemporary look with patterned cotton. It's interesting how much tweaking the patterns need to make this work - fur fabric is much easier to work with as stitches can be hidden much more easily!<br />
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It's funny how life can plod along for years and years and you try different things, before going right back to where you started!Starfish Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320776141828496012noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3011631608501516639.post-19485101612082199102013-05-14T06:12:00.000-07:002013-05-14T06:12:33.053-07:00The Cairn O'Mount<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
If you've ever heard the Radio Scotland travel reports during the winter months, you'll be familiar with the phrase, "The B974 Banchory to Fettercairn road is closed due to snow"!</div>
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It is a fantastic drive which rises through forest to the bleak, rolling hill tops, peaking at 454 metres above sea level, before descending down into Fettercairn.</div>
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Starfish Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320776141828496012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3011631608501516639.post-28675069623793699532013-03-08T03:58:00.000-08:002013-03-08T03:58:17.078-08:00Great Tapestry of Scotland part 3During my most recent stint of working on the pane my focus was on getting the apron finished but, as it's a very, very repetitive part, I kept my sanity by spending a few hours on that and then switching to the washing line, which was much more fun to do!<br />
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and the all important bloomers!</div>
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The night before I was due to hand over to Gail I was stitching like a dervish to get the apron finished. To break up this very large expanse of one colour, I added a couple of patches. After all, Jessie's a hard working woman without much money, and she was maybe looking a bit too glamorous!</div>
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They are fantastic, especially the wee ladder!</div>
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I know I'm biased, but my dad is a truly lovely man. He'll always go out of his way to do anything for anybody, and I haven't a scooby as to how many DIY related favours he's done for me over the years, so when he recently asked me to do a favour for him of course I said 'yes'!</div>
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After enjoying 40+ years of my mum's excellent culinary skills, Dad has recently had to learn to cook for himself. It's not easy learning any new skill later in life, and I'm really proud of him. </div>
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He has just started a 'Cooking for One' evening class and realised that his apron had seen better days and wasn't really fit to be seen in public!</div>
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This apron was a gift to Dad from his grandmother, sometime before he met Mum (in 1965) and had become completely threadbare. I bought him a new one a couple of Christmasses ago, but he's very attached to this one!</div>
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I looked through my fabric stash and concluded that everything I had was far too girly to be used on a man apron, and I'd have to somehow design my own patch.</div>
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Then I had a light bulb moment! I knew I had an old photo of Dad wearing the apron, so I scanned it into the computer and printed it onto a piece of cotton. This photo was taken in 1973!</div>
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I ironed it on to the apron using Bondaweb...</div>
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It wasn't quite big enough to cover the entire threadbare area so I had to add a wee piece of not-too-girly patterned fabric at the bottom.</div>
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Ta da... here he is tucking into the fishcakes he made at his evening class last week!</div>
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Jessie, our washer woman at the Steamie, is coming along very nicely indeed. Gail has done an absolutely fantastic job with the washing in her basket which has added some great colour and texture to our panel.</div>
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Yesterday I went to a Great Tapestry of Scotland meeting in Newport on Tay. </div>
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I was especially pleased (and very reassured) that our panel received lots of lovely compliments and delighted to hear that she is now widely known as </div>
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Dorie Wilkie, the head stitcher, was on hand to give advice to each group/ individual. </div>
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Here she is demonstrating heavy chain stitch, which is to be used for all the borders on the tapestry.</div>
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Andrew Crummy, the tapestry artist, was also there. </div>
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We'd been invited to suggest ideas as to what should go in the borders of our panel. </div>
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Gail had found some images of washing powder of the period, and I'd roughly sketched these on to a photocopy of our design along with a washing line and soapy bucket.</div>
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Here's Andrew drawing the washing line and a couple of boxes onto our linen. </div>
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We're going to do some research into the famous steamies that were in each of Scotland's cities and maybe add their names on as well.</div>
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I forget the name of this panel (sorry) but it contains a quote, "Oh tell me fit was on yer road, ye roarin norland wind," from Violet Jacob's poem, The Norland Wind, also known as The Wild Geese. </div>
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This panel is being stitched by a group of eight ladies and conveniently it has eight hands depicted on it, so everyone gets to stitch their own hand!</div>
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This panel depicts the Battle of Dunichen in 685AD, when the Picts defeated the Angles. </div>
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This battle is explained fully at the <a href="http://www.pictavia.org.uk/" target="_blank">Pictavia visitor centre</a> just outside Brechin.</div>
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I do have an excuse though - every spare minute is currently spent stitching a panel of <a href="http://scotlandstapestry.com/index.php" target="_blank">The Great Tapestry of Scotland</a>, and I've not spent anything like as much time on the computer as I usually do (which is no bad thing!).</div>
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To find out more about the tapestry you'd be best to follow the link to <a href="http://scotlandstapestry.com/">scotlandstapestry.com</a> as there's lots of info on the official website. It tells the story of Scotland in 163 hand stitched panels - everything from the formation of the land 300 million years ago, through standing stones, the Black Death, many battles and monarchs, the Forth Bridge, ship building on the Clyde, right up to Dolly the Sheep and the Scottish Parliament (and much, much more).</div>
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It's a very exciting project to be involved with. I love the thought that people will be visiting the tapestry for hundreds, maybe thousands of years. At 160m + it'll be more than twice as long as the Bayeux Tapestry! </div>
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My panel is no.155, The Steamie, depicting a woman doing her washing. Tony Roper's hilarious play 'The Steamie' set in a 1950's Glasgow steamie (public wash house) is a hugely popular draw for theatres all over Scotland and will ensure that this slice of social history is never forgotten! </div>
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At 1 metre x 50cms I'm very happy to be sharing the work with a local lady, Gail, who I'd never met before. Seemingly we were the only people in this area who volunteered to help with the stitching, so we were paired up. </div>
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I've now completed her sleeve and given it a textured appearance so that her clothes aren't too flat looking. I've also started work on her apron. Our guidance notes suggested that her apron may be soaking wet so I'm using two shades of wool, blended where they meet each other, to give this impression.</div>
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This time our starting point was Worcester (a city very special to me as it's where I spent my student years) and we had plans to set off northwards along the River Severn before joining the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal. However, due to the large amount of recent rain, we were told on arrival that this wouldn't be possible. Pilots were being sent out to boats already on the river to guide them safely back to the marina so a complete change of plan was needed and we set off up the Worcester & Birmingham Canal instead.<br />
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This turned out to be a fascinating route, mostly involving travelling (slowly - max 4mph) through beautiful scenery, and also visiting Birmingham city centre. I haven't been to Birmingham for many, many years, and I was delighted to see what a pleasant city centre it has become. I used to work on New Street when it was choked with traffic but now it's a very pleasant pedestrianised area. I kept thinking how Aberdeen could do with taking a leaf out of Birmingham's book. It was great to see the redeveloped Bull Ring and I even visited the Rag Market and bought some fabric - so pleased to see it's still thriving.<br />
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Following lots of overnight rain, on our return journey many of the locks on the Tardebigge flight of 30 were very full. Water was gushing over the top of the lock gates which made walking across impossible.</div>
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In 6 days we travelled through a total of 112 locks! That's about ten more than last year, but they weren't so stiff and heavy as the nightmare locks we'd experienced in central Manchester (never again!).</div>
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<br />Starfish Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320776141828496012noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3011631608501516639.post-10889742426583016382012-10-09T07:42:00.000-07:002012-10-09T07:42:39.478-07:00Fabulous Felt ExhibitionsOn Sunday Kirsty and I enjoyed a fantastic day out in Perthshire visiting two exhibitions of stunning felt work and walking in the autumnal woodland.<br />
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Our first stop was <a href="http://www.thedyingofthesun.com/" target="_blank">'The Dying of the Sun'</a> at the Bield in Perth. This exhibition has been organised to co-incide with International Felt Day, which this year has the theme of 'Fire'. It was great to see different interpretations of the theme by feltmakers from all around the world. Here's a selection.<br />
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including my bloggy friend, <a href="http://random-wooliness.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/the-dying-of-sun.html" target="_blank">Ali</a>.</div>
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From Perth we drove to Birnam where we visited an exhibition called 'Felt Excited' which showcased work by the Scottish branch of the International Feltmakers Association. </div>
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The venue, the Birnam Institute, is a beautiful building, community owned and largely run by volunteers. It's really quite an incredible achievement, and there's a very impressive <a href="http://www.birnaminstitute.com/index.asp?tm=5" target="_blank">programme of events</a> of all sorts going on throughout the year.</div>
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We went in search of the famous Birnam Oak - all that remains of the ancient woodland made famous by the witches' prophecy in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'. Our walk took us alongside the wide River Tay. </div>
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When I first bought such a foot for my machine, the only one I could find to fit a Singer was this one.</div>
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The foot and needle must have become slightly misaligned, the needle had pierced the plastic of the foot and become firmly embedded in it. It's now utterly unusable as the shape of the hole has changed so much that a needle can't fit through it.</div>
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Reluctant to buy another foot exactly the same, and irritated by the inability of my machine to lower the feed dogs, I was actually thinking of buying a new machine that's more suited to being used for free machine embroidery. I was Googling away, trying to justify the expense, when miraculously I came across a 'proper' foot for a Singer.</div>
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I still can't lower the feed dogs (they have a cover) but I fitted the new foot this morning and had a very quick play with it. It has completely transformed my machine! </div>
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I've been itching to blog about this for ages, but it was top secret until the village Flower Show last Saturday! </div>
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Whilst we were on holiday last summer we visited <a href="http://www.antobar.co.uk/" target="_blank">An Tobar</a>, the Tobermory Arts Centre on the beautiful Isle of Mull where I spotted a tiny wee book called '<a href="http://www.how2crafts.com/books/felt-biscuits" target="_blank">Felt Biscuits</a>'. When my daughter wasn't looking I bought it and then kept it hidden until Christmas. </div>
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I thought Kirsty (age 12) would probably like to have a go at making a couple of the biscuits. I never imagined that she'd tackle the entire project of a complete set of biscuits, a box to put them in and a tray shaped to house each biscuit!</div>
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A custard cream and a jam sandwich.</div>
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Pink wafer, Bourbon and shortcake.</div>
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The inner tray was by far the hardest part and caused Kirsty a lot of frustration. She stuck at it though, and whilst she'd accept advice from me, I wasn't allowed to help with any of it as she was planning to enter the box into the village Flower Show so it absolutely had to be all her own work.<br />
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She had never used blanket stitch before but, after a shaky start and a bit of unpicking, she became very adept!</div>
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The lid required a lot of careful planning, cutting and positioning. Kirsty struggled with french knots and did a lot of practice ones on a scrap of felt before starting on the real thing. </div>
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And the result of her weeks and weeks of hard work - the much coveted rosette for the Best Exhibit in Show - that means she beat all the grown ups in all the various categories. <br />
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Result = one very happy daughter and one very proud mum!</div>
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<br />Starfish Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320776141828496012noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3011631608501516639.post-44706407959991635732012-08-07T04:22:00.001-07:002012-08-07T04:22:36.594-07:00Summer expeditions, rain and felting.I usually do a wee bloggy post about our holidays, but as our main summer holiday comprised a week of almost constant rain, I don't have great photos to share.<br />
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We were in the Borders for a week, staying in a gorgeous cottage near Kirk Yetholm - very rural with a pond right outside. We went for lots of soggy walks and made excellent use of the washing machine as we returned to the cottage with muddy clothes every evening! I was very struck by the beauty of the area and would love to return in better weather sometime.<br />
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Our cottage and the view from it - beautiful!</div>
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A highlight for me was the ruined abbey in Kelso which has had some amazing restoration work done to some of the the pillars - see how fresh it looks. It helps you to imagine how these ancient buildings must have looked before they lost their roofs and became exposed to the elements. <br />
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Less soggy was a wee bonus holiday that Kirsty and I went on at the end of July. We stayed a few miles south of Nairn in a lovely <a href="http://www.belivat.co.uk/index2.html" target="_blank">b&b</a>. The rain was never far away, but it came in short, sharp bursts, interspersed with beautiful sunshine.</div>
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The beach at Nairn - we sat eating pizza in the glorious evening sunshine whilst watching a storm over on the Black Isle - magical!
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<span style="text-align: left;">Last year we went on a </span><a href="http://starfishstudio.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/shibori.html" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">shibori felting course</a><span style="text-align: left;"> at </span><a href="http://www.divadesignstudio.co.uk/" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">Diva Designs</a><span style="text-align: left;"> who have a studio at Logie Steading</span><span style="text-align: left;"> near Forres, and this year we returned to learn about sculpural felting. The courses are run by the very experienced and helpful mother and daughter team of Christine and Kirsty who encourage you to be ambitious and try complex ideas out under their expert guidance.</span>
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...and then progressed to more ambitious creations. This fab purple and red vessel was made by Kirsty. It's quite a complicated piece to make and getting those slits in the right places was really tricky - I should point out that she's 12 years old and I am a very proud mum! </div>
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Mine didn't turn out as I'd planned but I love its wacky shape! I had grand ideas of making a vase shape with wild twiddly bits at the top, but the balloon I was moulding it around was blown up too big and the wool kept falling off! I did get the wild twiddly bits look that I had wanted though.<br />
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We had a lovely few days away which included dolphin spotting on the Black Isle, taking a boat trip on Loch Ness and visiting a couple of our favourite galleries, - just fabulous!</div>
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If you follow Starfish Studio on Facebook you may have seen a photo of some felt leaves that I've been working on. I stitched onto them using metallic threads and added beads and stars, making each one different.<br />
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They were then stitched onto this tree. The background is lightly quilted in an assortment of yellows and oranges and the tree was cut from a single piece of felt. It's finished off with red bias binding. <br />
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I really enjoyed making this - it took a very long time, is a mixture of machine and hand stitching and involved lots of positioning and repositioning!<br />
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Determined to find a solution I did a bit of googling and found this fantastic thread organiser which fits into the window recess. This has to be the best thing I've bought so far this year!<br />
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The lack of vertical walls means there aren't many places to fit shelves and consequently these piles of fat quarters had annoyingly been sitting on the desk behind the sewing machine for a long time, but <span style="background-color: white;">(with the help of my DIY dad) </span><span style="background-color: white;">I managed to squeeze some shelves in here. The result has transformed the place and I'm now spending even more time up in my wee bolt hole! </span><br />
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Firstly I revisited Fran Marquis's venue as I enjoyed it so much last year. As well as Fran's pottery there was work by a variety of other artists on display here. </div>
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The third venue I visited in Arbroath was shared by three participants - Blue Daisy Jewellery, from whom I picked up some stock, Doris Gilmour with her paintings and encaustic art, and stained glass artist Sheenagh Young.<br />
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Her beautiful hanging hearts, stars and more will soon be available at Starfish Studio.</div>
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This year Kirsty and I had grand plans for doing a big AOS tour again, but unfortunately she was quite poorly on the only day we were able to go out together. It was scorching hot too, and the thought of travelling around in a stuffy car really didn't appeal to her.</div>
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However, she's a big fan of <a href="http://loveandpeascreations.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Love and Peas</a>, aka Jenny Blair, who makes the most amazing books, so we did eventually set off for Tannadice. Jenny has already encouraged Kirsty to make her own books and was kind enough to give her a book full of ideas some time ago. </div>
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On Sunday she showed Kirsty several binding techniques and gave her lots of ideas for the kinds of materials she may like to use in future creations.</div>
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Jenny was exhibiting, along with a number of other artists and makers, in the lovely setting of Tannadice Church, beside a sparkling river - just lovely.<br />
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We only managed one other venue on Sunday, which was the nearby <a href="http://www.oathlawpotteryandgallery.com/" target="_blank">Oathlaw Pottery</a>. We were greeted by Maggie holding a large pitcher of lemon barley water to quench our thirst! <br />
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There really was no air movement whatsoever and the temperature was stiffling so it was very much appreciated. <br />
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She showed us her kiln and explained the processes involved in creating a wide variety of beautiful ceramics.<br />
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The bright and welcoming gallery space had all kinds of lovely pottery and I couldn't resist treating myself!</div>
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There's a mad place near here called <a href="http://www.steptoesyard.com/" target="_blank">Steptoe's Yard.</a> It must be pretty famous as I've had several far travelled customers ask me for directions (it's beside the St Cyrus Nature Reserve).</div>
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There's no point 'nipping' to Steptoe's - you have to spend a good amount of time there to find the wee nuggets hidden away in a sea of 'stuff'.</div>
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I've bought quite a lot of things from here and given them all a new lease of life - piano stool, travelling trunk, footstool, bench etc. This was my latest acquisition - a set of scruffy old drawers with two handles missing, water damage at the bottom and bird poo on the top. Lovely!<br />
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After giving it a good clean and a light sanding I gave it two coats of red <a href="http://www.anniesloan.com/" target="_blank">Annie Sloan</a> paint. </div>
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I bought some stencils <span style="background-color: white;">with celtic designs</span><span style="background-color: white;"> from an excellent selection at </span><a href="http://www.stencilkingdom.com/" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Stencil Kingdom</a><span style="background-color: white;"> to give it a bit of decoration. </span></div>
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I attached the first stencil with repositionable spray adhesive and at this point learned a valuable lesson - always read the instruction on the tin <u>properly</u>! I neglected to wait for the freshly sprayed glue to become tacky and as a result, when I removed the stencil it left a sticky mess on the drawer. Grrrr! </div>
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So I had to leave it a while, rub it down again and repaint it - lesson most definitely learned! A selection of red, pink and yellow acrylic paints were applied...</div>
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I brushed wax onto the surfaces, left it to soak in for an hour or so, and then started rubbing it to a lovely sheen. Kirsty helped with this bit as it's quite hard work.<br />
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The photo below shows what a difference a bit of vigorous rubbing makes!</div>
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All that remained was to screw on some new handles (ridiculously, the most expensive part of this whole process!) and there you have it - a totally unique set of drawers!<br />
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Kirsty's fused glass flower has arrived and she's delighted with it! </div>
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Thanks again to the ladies at <a href="http://www.chillilicious.co.uk/" target="_blank">Chillilicious</a> for making our visit so enjoyable.</div>Starfish Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320776141828496012noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3011631608501516639.post-13931584970286651222012-05-10T06:08:00.000-07:002012-05-13T03:55:20.686-07:00Fife Open Studios 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
This year Kirsty & I treated ourselves to an overnight stay in order to make the most of the Fife event. </div>
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We visited a total of 16 venues and saw metalwork, painting, textiles, glass, ceramics and an assortment of mixed venues. A really fun day and a half out.</div>
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One of the wonderful things about touring around open studios is that you get to visit places that you'd never normally see. The venues we visited ranged from the stately home at Mountquhanie...</div>
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...to a quaint thatched cottage in Collessie...<br />
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This workshop is where Dave McKeen makes his amazing wooden boxes that we have for sale in Starfish Studio. He builds secret drawers and towers of drawers into his work, and they are a constant source of amazement to my customers!<br />
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Here are some works in progress. These include a secret drop down tower and comprise 54 individual pieces, all carefully numbered to be sure that they go back in the right places!<br />
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The signage to the various studios was very good, my favourite being the row of chillies leading the way to <a href="http://www.chillilicious.co.uk/" target="_blank">Chillilicious</a> in Ceres.<br />
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At this venue, just like <a href="http://starfishstudio.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/fife-open-studios.html" target="_blank">last year</a>, Kirsty had a go at making her own fused glass creation. </div>
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<br />Starfish Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320776141828496012noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3011631608501516639.post-2466626106695680352012-04-17T06:26:00.001-07:002012-04-17T06:26:15.574-07:00Adventures abroadI usually do a bloggy post about our holidays so regular readers will probably know that we always take our family holidays in Britain. <br />
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Last summer my teenage daughter grumbled about us going to Mull. She reads these teen magazines with holiday checklists comprising sunglasses, bikinis, sun cream etc, and we were packing jumpers, waterproofs and midge repellent! As it turned out, we had amazing weather and it was one of my favourite holidays ever, however I have to accept that she no longer has the enthusiasm for visiting castles and going on long walks that she had when she was younger.<br />
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The last time we went abroad was almost five years ago. We took the ferry from Rosyth to Zeebrugge and had a day and night in Bruges before taking the train to Paris for one night and then a few days doing the Disney thing. It was an absolutely fantastic trip, spoiled only by the French declaring a national strike which meant that no trains or buses were running on the day we were due to leave Disneyland.<br />
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To cut a long story short, we had to take a taxi from Disneyland Paris to Brussels - over 200 miles in a taxi! There was no other way to get our ferry home, it was an overnight sailing which doesn't run every day and we absolutely had to be on that boat. The taxi cost 600 euros, so thank goodness for holiday insurance! The problems then continued with some thieving scumbag stealing my purse on the train platform in Brussels, but that's another story...<br />
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So, we were a bit put off doing the 'foreign thing' and both my daughters had worries about flying, so it was with some trepidation that we agreed to try a week in Mallorca during the Easter holidays. None of us are sun worshippers and we're not keen on crowds, so we probably couldn't cope with the Mediterranean in the summer - not to mention the fact that the rental on the villa is trebled if you go in August! <br />
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We had a 5am check in at Edinburgh airport, were loaded onto the plane ready for take off at 7am, and then the captain announced that the French air traffic controllers were on strike (see a pattern emerging here?) and we had to wait for a time slot before we could fly over France. We sat on the tarmac at Edinburgh for two and a half hours. Yawn (although we did take the captain up on his offer of visiting the cockpit).<br />
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Other than that we had an absolutely fab week and I'm so glad we went. The weather wasn't scorchingly hot (thank goodness) and it wasn't horribly busy. Definitely a good time of year to go.<br />
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I really enjoyed speaking a bit of Spanish and my confidence with the language grew as the week went on. (I did 'O' level Spanish a long long time ago and have recently been brushing up a little.)<br />
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Not wishing to bore people with my holiday snaps, here's a small selection of photos. Mallorca is a really beautiful place, especially in the small coves and up in the mountains but I'm sure lots of holidaymakers never leave the resorts. Why anyone would go all that way and spend a week cooking on a beach alongside thousands of other people I'll never understand.<br />
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Cala Sant Vicenç</div>
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Soller</div>
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365 steps in Pollença leading up to a wee chapel</div>
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My girlies</div>
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Our villa - very private, just perfect, near Pollença</div>
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Amazing road down to the stunning bay at Sa Calobra</div>
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Paddling at Port de Soller</div>
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Visiting the castle at Capdepera</div>
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