SUMMER HOLIDAYS

The gallery will be closed from July 19 until August 19 for our first summer holiday!

Emergency contacts will be:

Email: anneshoring @gmail.com

gallery holiday

OR Tel: 01432379142 and leave a message-we will check as often as we can.

KNITTERS FOR PEACE

Join knitters for Peace at Castle Green Fayre in Hereford tomorrow to create your own Herefordshire sheep and help raise funds to set up knitting groups in war torn countries.

Knitters and Spinners are invited to bring their knitting and wheels to demonstrate how its done and join in the fun.

SSSSSSSSSSSShhhhhhhhhhh. Its started

If you google artisanyarns.co.uk you will find there is a website!  Its still in test mode but there is some indigo linen lace looking for a home.

Stroud Textile Festival: Musum in the Park

I urge everyone to go its so inspiring. Lots of pictures on my flickr site but how about this amazing piece of work by Annie Hutchinson. Sorry its an owl – need new specs – but there are cats on Flickr.

From In the Making

STUFFED WITH LOVE AND FLEECE!

My favourite magazine is Selvedge and my favourite place is Ceredigion and I love wool, knitting and have a very serious weakness for old Welsh Quilts so when Selvedge organised an afternoon in the Welsh Quilt Centre in Lampeter I had to go.

The company was excellent, the quilts were astounding, the cakes were to die for and the Blodwen Goodie Bag was a very scented surprise.

Did you know that old quilts were filled with carded fleece and some very old quilts belonging to poor people still had quite a bit of the hedge and the sheep in with them.  here are some pics of astonishing Paisley quilts.

If you ever get a chance to visit the gallery do take it, its small but houses a wonderful collection; its wise to ring first

stunning hand quilted close up

hand stitched stunner and gallery view

quilting papers left in give clues to history

imperfect perfection

touchy, feely quilt scraps

quilted skirt and shawls

GROWN UP WEBSITE!

the late lamb

posing for the camera

mum and lamb doing well

Its on the way – for all frustrated artisan yarnies who want to buy online we have finally decided to put a toe in the water of e-commerce.  Even as I type there are people working away behind the scenes, putting it all together,  Scary, scary!

Our policy all along is that you need to be able to see, feel and sniff our yarns, but sometimes you need to re-order after a show or spend some special birthday money without fighting your way into Hereford, so here’s a chance to do that. In the meantime here is some real wool on legs that I communed with on the weekend.  The ones with the black faces are the Unitarian Sheep, Llanwenogs and the white faces ones which make me think of Agnus Dei are Lleyns and they all live in the Aeron Valley in Ceredigion where I once lived.

future yarn supplier

the dads getting a meal in

taking the twins for a walkl

Some I did not quite manage to do earlier!

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As you can see not mastered the organisation of the images……………….This was to be a flashback of the week before Wonderwool in the glory of the garden………………….

Back from Wonderwool with pics

Well here we are back in the real world; thanks to everyone who bought artisan yarns own hand dyed yarns.  Its very encouraging and has got me thinking of what to dye for Woolfest. Any special requests let me know.  Shawls loaned by very dear friends were the real stars.  For those of you who didn’t get there here are some pics.  There are also pics on Anthony Shoring’s Facebook album. My apologies for the messy layout I need my other family member, Gabrielle to tweak this!

linen lace

Artisan Yarns – heavy on the indigo

swallowtail shawl in linen lace: an ongoing favourite

great big wonderwool space

Yarn Undyed and local wools

The fabulous Peacock shawl and artisan yarns

laceweights and baby treats

individually dyed hanks of kidsilk

Handknitted lace shawl

Yarn Damour collection for Aeolian Shawl

Hand dyed kidsilk

Victorian Lace today by angie

wondrous angie shawl

Handknitted lace shawl

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wonderwool saturday

What a great day – the sun shone – hundreds of people came and everybody was smiling.  After the initial terror of seeing the big empty space that was ours, it turned out to be a really good idea.  People had time to browse and to move around and have a good look at the yarns and being combined with Artists Palette gave them a wonderful choice to pick and choose over.  I think people were more focussed than last year.  Some came bearing lists and for us it was terrific that people came back.  We especially loved Ravelry Kittyboo’s seashell silk scarf and we shall  be after the pattern for this (posting photos tomorrow)

I cant believe its raining here……………..Sunday a.m.

Apologies to those seeking the indigo silk – we sold much more than we expected but we will be dyeing more soon, so watch this space.

wonderful, wondrous wonderwool wales

We are setting up tomorrow for the great Welsh woolfest at Builth Wells.  The shop in Hereford will be closed until Tuesday.For those who are going to the show we are on Stand B9. Come collect your free pink shopper and say HELLO!

There will be lots of yarn, dyed and undyed some indigo tops, some great books, knitting kits; artisan yarns famouse linen lace, luxury yarns from Yarn Damour and much much more………………