Staithes Festival of Arts and Heritage.

 Hello my lovelies! Say hello to Mr Hare. 

Now say goodbye, we won't be seeing him again as he has hopped off to a loving new home. 

 He was one of a handful of pieces that came with me to the Festival of Arts and Heritage in Staithes just over a week ago.

 What a fabulous event! For one whole weekend about 80 artists turned kitchens, front rooms, garages and even bedrooms into pop up galleries in the pretty little fishing village of Staithes. There were pop up cafes too along with music, film shows, demonstrations, walks, talks and all manner of entertainment. Here's a very tiny taste as I only had time for a quick speed walk around before it got busy on Saturday morning!

 This was our little gallery for the weekend in a pretty little cottage on the High Street.

 We had lots of lovely visitors, the whole place had a lovely atmosphere.

 One of our visitors owns this charming little place...

 The Tea Shop in Staithes...

They also now own my little felted picture too! Delightful!

I just like to say thank you to every one who visited us over the weekend. Wonderful Man and I thoroughly enjoyed chatting to you all. I'd had such a lovely time and my work received so many compliments that I had a little happy cry on Sunday... I just couldn't help myself. Thank you to everyone who made our weekend so special. 

Oh and the Hare in Poppies... he's hopped off to new home too!

I shall look forward to seeing you all at Yarndale this weekend, if I remember correctly I shall be on stand 26 looking a tad frazzled and a bit frayed around the edges (it's been a very busy year) but very happy to see you all and chatter about all things 'felty'.

Don't forget to bring lots of pocket money ;)

See you at the weekend

love Fi x

Mayday Fair in Kettlewell.

Heads up everyone!

Wonderful Man and I had a super day at the Kettlewell May day Festival. The tag line for the festival was 'Made in't Dale, Festival of Wool and Ale'

And that's just what there was, lots of it too! 

Come and take a look.

 We were up early on Monday morning with a car packed full of felty goodness.

 Our short journey took us through Bishopdale into Wharfdale.

 We arrived in the little village of Kettlewell (of Calendar Girls fame) spot on 8am ready to set up our stall. You couldn't ask for a more picturesque setting!

 Here we are in the corner all set up and ready for the day, lets take a closer look...

I can see a bit of photo bombing going on! Mr Marmalade thought I wouldn't notice! 

We had notebooks, hand felted embroidered cards, little fat owls, 2 types of felt brooches, printed greetings cards of my felty creations, the last felt handbag, tea cosy and kitten kits, art prints of my field mouse and 3 brand new original felt artworks. I'd been a very busy girl over the last couple of weeks I can tell you. lol. Anyway that's enough about us, lets take a look at some of the other lovely stalls.

 Okay, not a stall but who could resist these very fluffy bunnies...awe!

 And of course we couldn't have woolly goings on without the lovely Lucy of Attic 24 and her friends being there to promote Yarndale 2014! We had a nice little catch up in the sunshine and I bought myself a very capatious Yarndale bag. It's huge!

 Looking lovely as always, Edie Pebbles stall, full of gorgeous girly bits and bobs.

Hooked by Design, rug hooking.

 I'm afraid I don't know who's this is as I was snapping while everyone was setting up before the event opened.

 A very smiley stall holder with more rug hooking.

 Even more felted bits and bobs.

 The most gorgeous woven wools from Laura's Loom.

 This one speaks for itself really.

This is my was my neighbour Yvonne's stall, with beautiful felt scarves.

 Gorgeous machine embroidered cushions.

 And last but not least our other lovely neighbours, Lorraine and her sister Deborah with yummy silver and polymer clay jewellery. It was their first craft fair so I hope it didn't put them off being next to me all day, lol!

 Well, the sun shone and the people came. There was live music playing, a fashion show in the village church and a local art exhibition in village hall.

 There were pies and cheeses, hog roasts and cakes...

 Spinning, weaving and gun dog demonstrations. There were even 4 week old puppies to see! We know this because all our craft tents emptied when the announcement came that there were puppies in the demonstration ring, lol! Who can resist a puppy!

 The beer tent was also very popular or so I believe...we didn't get chance to participate as we were so busy chatting to lovely customers. 

 My little felt robin picture flew off to a new home with two lovely ladies within the first hour.

And we hand delivered the hare to his lovely new owner on our way home. He'll be living in the most beautiful old farmhouse a little further up the Dale.

But all good things must come to an end. At 5 o'clock we started to pack away as the live music played and the beer flowed on.

 We left Kettlewell feeling tired but happy.

 The weather had behaved itself beautifully.

And we collapsed on the kitchen sofa and had a much needed cup of tea. 

Our next felty foray will be on June 28th and 29th at 

Art in the Pen

at Carlisle. 

I better get some felt on the go!

Love Fi x
Edited to add... Liniecat, the hare's eye is not glass it is all wool! Thank you for your lovely comments ladies x

Market Day

Here am look pensive. Will they come? Will they like what they see? Will they want to buy anything? Will the day be success?

Wonderful Man and I set up our table at the Designer Makers Market at Richmond Station at the weekend. We stacked and sorted, we piled up and priced.

 One of us also did a lot of pinning (thank you Wonderful Man) and then we held our breath.

 But there was nothing to worry about. 

 There were plenty of customers!

The Station is a lovely venue, it has a really nice feel to it.

 And there was some wonderful foody smells wafting around all day.

 There were also some interesting things going on outside.

Something for everyone! Although I think you'd have trouble slipping one of these into a Christmas stocking!