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Our new Peg Loom
We have just bought a new peg loom from Joanna and Chris. A lovely little peg loom which is very easy to use. Joanna travels over to Harris and Lewis and picks up woven wool waste perfect for the peg loom. Joanna’s company is called Fighe, as a social enterprise a percentage of their profits goes back into local [...]
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Tagged craft holidays, Fighe, fleece to felt weeks, Harris, Harris tweed, Lewis, Peg Loom
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Handmade Living Article
Handmade Living article. If you fancy reading a little more about our Fleece to Felt weeks have a look at this article, which was in last months Handmade Living magazine.
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Tagged Cannich, craft course, dye plants, felt, fleece, Fleece to Felt craft course, Glen Affric, Handmade Living Magazine, Loch Ness, Mongolian felting, Scottish Highlands, shearing, Shetlands, spin, Strathglass, traditional crafts, wool
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New extra date for our Fleece to Felt week
Come and join us for a craft retreat in the Highlands of Scotland! This year we have decided to put on an extra Fleece to Felt week, as our early July week is now full. The new week with run from July 27th-August 4th and we hope anyone who was unable to make the earlier [...]
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Tagged craft, craft retreat, Felting, Fleece to Felt week, Highlands of Scotland, Natural dyeing
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Needle Felting
Needle felting is a great winter craft. I usually do lots of my wet felting outside or in the barn, so when the temperatures drop it is nice to do some work tucked up inside, by the burner. I enjoy needle felting as it can be really quick and easy with great results. I am [...]
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Tagged craft, Craigmonie craft club, needle felted Rose, needle felting, wet felting, workshop
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Hand-made Felted Aga Covers
Thank-you Cath for sending this picture of the Aga covers she made while on one of our felt-making weekends last summer. It was a beautiful sunny day and we managed to spend the whole weekend outside felting, we even had to reapply sun cream and wear hats it was so hot – feels unimaginable at the moment! [...]
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Tagged bespoke Aga covers, felt, felt-making weekends, Felting, Hand-made Felted Aga Covers, wet felting, wool
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Good to be home
Christmas is over and the new year is here. We are back at Higher Crochail after nearly a month away. It is lovely to be home. We were lucky enough to have various sheep sitters looking after our girls. The most shocking thing about our return, was a gift from our resident Pine Marten. She [...]
The Tourism Awards -short film
We were recently runners up at the Highlands and Islands Tourism awards. Shortlisted for ”Best nature based experience”. The short film below (less than 30 seconds) shows a few of the things we do in the woods, including a little of our prehistoric cookery, the Shetland sheep and wool! Just click on the link below Tourism [...]
Fleece to Felt Week
Mongolian style felt-making We have just finished our fleece to felt week for this year. We had an excellent group of people and a lovely week. We had a great dyeing session making nearly 30 shades of colour, we visited Nathalie on her farm, where we saw her beautiful Shetland sheep, we also had a [...]
Learning to hand shear
Hand shearing This week it was definitely time for Winnie and Frank (our tame cheviot sheep), to lose their fleeces and the perfect opportunity for Alex and I to have our first lesson in hand shearing. Bruce did a fantastic job and straight away it was obvious to me what a skill it is. He held [...]
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Tagged felt, fleece, fleeces, hand shearing
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May’s felting course – what was made
Here are some pictures of the work from our last Felting Weekend Workshop. There were some beautiful pieces, two of Image of Red Deer the group made Mongolian style floor mats for sitting on, which were made wet felted bag using Cheviot and Shetland fleece and then a mix of naturally dyed Shetland and Cheviot [...]
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Tagged Cheviot, felt making, felt-making course, Felting Weekend Workshop, felting workshops, mongolian, Shetland fleece, wet felted, wet felting
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