Before: Setting up the Quilters Guild stand |
After: The area in action |
Thames Valley Contemporary Textiles had made a model of their stand |
...and here's the real thing, the exhibition "Halfway Between" |
By stewarding in the Contemporary Quilt exhibition, I got a chance to examine the quilts closely and talk with visitors about them. And to wait for those little moments of "the person who matches the art"... No sooner had I snapped the colorful jacket in front of Christine Restall's colorful quilt
than I realised my own garments, or at least the necklace, matched my own quilt nearby -
These lovely scarves (the little circles are velvet) were at the Selvedge stand -
and the linen yarns at Namolio -The highlight for me was a long chat at the rare breeds wool stand - Black Bat - a Yorkshire company that's been going for four years, getting fleeces from all over and having them processed at a small mill. They know their suppliers personally, and they even know the sheep by name. The sheep that produced the brown wool will be on Countryfile on 30 March -
and the grey on the top shelf is from a herd of Ronaldsay sheep in Lincolnshire -
You could definitely feel a difference between the wools - some very soft, good next to the skin - others rougher, good for outerwear. What a pleasure to knit with these!
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