Last year when I went to the Sheep Show, the heel kept
falling off my boot and I had to stamp on it, very hard, to get it back in place
so it didn’t slow down my looking and shopping.
I didn’t get round to replacing the boots last year but when they went
on sale in the local shop recently, I just knew these would be a really good
replacement. And they are, comfortable,
good fit, warm, non-slip soles, everything I wanted except they came with very
thin and mean laces. I knew I could fix
the problem so here are my new boots with their kumihimo strawberry laces –
just because I can.
It's not easy to photograph shoe laces but they really do have strawberries on them. See Alison Irwin’s article in Handwoven May/June 1999 if your boots too need more interesting laces.
I sent my scarves off to the Geelong Scarf Festival:
One in plain weave from a recycled silk shirt -
One in huck lace in Cool wool
One in overshot from a hand dyed blank knitted on an Addi
Knitting machine, looking something like waves as the theme was ‘Coastlines’
And one from the navy and silver herringbone unisex/mens series
I did last year. It received a Highly
Commended in the Menswear category – I guess that goes some way to answering the
‘what is a man’s scarf’ question?
It’s almost time for the Bendigo Sheep Show – that means the
entries are in, the yarns are dyed, the warps are made - thank goodness last
Monday was a public holiday - and now there’s just the weaving and sewing to
do. Probably time to start weaving
rather than just writing about it
Helen
