textile tv

Thanks to Joanna at Things [Handmade], I just learned about a very exciting new TV series, Talking Threads, which is going out on Sky and on the online TV channel countrychannel.tv, and will be made into a DVD as well. The series starts in mid-October – may it be the first of many.

I’d not come across the Country Channel before but it has some other goodies too, including a short feature on Farfield Mill in Cumbria and a 3-part series called Inspirations – interviews with different textile artists about their inspiration and process.

The other thing that caught my eye this week was the new Galleries feature on Flickr. You can collect up to 18 images by Flickr users "around a theme, an idea or just because". So I’ve made a small celebration of the washing line.

Flickr galleryon the line

orange scarf

I made this soft neck scarf for my Mum’s birthday using merino fibre in two shades of orange. The circles are silk tops – I love the crinkly shapes they make in the finished felt – and the green yarn  is plied handspun – my first attempt at plying on the  spindle.

fibre laid out and ready to felt

completed scarf and handspun yarn

felt detail and yarn