St Abbs Woolfestivals - a trip down memory lane

Over the past 6/7 years we have been having Woolfestivals in St Abbs,
With a lot of help from the  Woolfish group and lots of friends and family, we started the Woolfestival in St Abbs and started a bi annual tradition, mainly focusing on pure wool.

Because of Trudi not being so well and lots of other contributing factors we had to hand over the reins to, first of all Helen Crowe, and then to Jennie, who is really working very hard to make the Festival stay on the map, she also has her own wonderful yarns and you can find her here.

For more information about this years Woolfestivals please contact Jennie.

The Spring 2014 Woolfestival in St Abbs is on March 1st

Please note that Woolfish will be holding an open day to coincide with the Festival so please come for coffee and have a look at all our wool and special sale items (we are the first house on the left on the road to the light house)

These are all lovely reminders of good times

We wish Jennie all the best in running the St Abbs Woolfestival and hope she has as much fun as we did

Open House on March 1st 2014

I can't believe that it is over a year since I visited my blog.
We are going to have an open day on March the 1st and just because I am a bit hopeless with time I had better put the year 2014   Oh how time flies.
We are combining it with the St Abbs Woolfestival which will be held in the Old School.

 I thought I would put a few photos together of bits that we were getting up to in the last year

 We have had a few knitting retreats that have been wonderful.

The daffodils are wonderful at the moment.

Last minute shopping.......aaaarrgh!!!!!

Just to let you know that 

if you are wanting to call into the shop 

for some holiday purchases, 

please just give us a ring when you're needing to come by 

and we'll be there for you....

bit cheesy but you get the gist! 

Louise is due to be near the shop all day Saturday,
so if you do pop round, if she isn't in give her a buzz
and she'll be there in 2mins.
Louise - 07861389224

(lots of finished things to buy eg. Handwarmers, Cashmere Hats, Throws, Slippers, Scarves, Socks, this Jacket and the pink one in the background below - hope it's given you some ideas)

Fishy Assistants and Consultants!

The big fish had a business lunch on Wednesday with her wonderful, fandabbydozey, best-thing-since-sliced-bread(well the big fish seems to think so anyway!) consultant:

Okaaay, so yes, her consultant IS her daughter Trudi aka wee fish.....but she does seem to do a reasonable job - consulting not daughtering!
So as a result of the big fish getting organized you may have noticed that the website is undergoing a few changes and our apologies for any awkwardnesses you may have come across but sometimes it gets higglety-pigglety before it can get streamlined - just like us really - but Louise's assistant is sorting it all out:

When we keep her from being distacted that is! 

Oooooh, ball of WOOL! Plotting attack route...

So there you have it, website being renewed, blog getting regular posts and the big fish being nagged for more retreat dates......the assistant and consultant have it all under control...ish!

The Big Fish Saw Stonehenge.....

......just!

On her way home from her adventures in quiltland......

 

.....where these lovely quilts were on display, made by this colourful gentleman (who we might be seeing again soon slightly closer to home( keep your eyes peeled in the next few weeks to find out what I mean!))....

Kaffe Fassett - look at the colours, wowzer!

....she spotted this:

What the big fish saw

'Eh?', I hear you say. Try this:

I zoomed in but no.... no idea.

Oh, I think she sort of, from a distance, saw this:

Not quite what the big fish managed to capture!

So the big fish was thrilled that she saw Stonehenge...sort of, maybe she was squinting a bit!

Quilted Gallivanting

The 'big fish' went a-gallivanting all the way to London. 

On a well-deserved break, Louise headed off to the bright lights of the big city to visit friends and family (oh, yeah, and fit in a 3 day quilting show at Shepton Mallet!).

Absolutely Spoilt

Getting spoilt by friends in Mill Hill, 
taken to the pub, wined and dined
......and being thrilled by 
microwave popcorn!!!!

A room with a view...of greenery...in London!

Cousin Rhiannon...nom,nom,nom.

Then on to visiting family in Kensington to 
become a lady-wot-lunches, and 
goes out for breakfast!














And finally...back to work at The West Country Quilt Show alongside these stunning works of art.

These are quilts!! As Louise would say 'amaaaazing'. If you're nearby, why don't you pop in and visit her, stand no. 91.....

Sock yarn, cones...it's sooo colourful.

Gorgeous Selkirk tweeds.

Big ones, small ones, lalalalala....

And the famous Woolfish jacket/shawl pin.

.....and you might even bump into Kaffe Fassett who is guesting at the show today!