Weekend away...
We had a wonderful weekend away. It's hard to think that it was only 7 days ago!
We were lucky enough to be staying during the first weekend of Open Studio's in Norfolk and I happened to notice a flyer for it in our hotel's reception area. (What really caught my attention was a picture of an Intarsia sweater and the words knitting, hand dyed yarn etc in the description).
Open Studio's is normally run by the local Arts' Council and basically, local artists open up their studio's or workshops to the public to showcase and sometimes sell their work. It's a bit like the Open Gardens scheme.
Anyway, we got in the car and headed off to Castle Acre and as we were driving though, spotted this....
I could feel the hubbler's eyes roll up as I said 'Oooh, let's find somewhere to park and go and have a look!'
Having got past the skeins of yarn on the gate (and another festooned with more yarn) we followed the arrows though a lovely cottage garden and found this...
and this......
this.....
and this!!!
Sadly, none of the yarn was for sale ( and I tried very hard to get them to let me re-home a lovely skein of wool and Tussah Silk), so we headed back to the car to go and find a couple more Studio's.
Next stop was Linda's - who also happens to work where we were staying. It turns out that Linda lent several of her paintings for use in the TV drama Kingdom - Stephen Fry, Sunday evenings - and we are now the proud owners of one of her pictures of Edie
We were lucky enough to be staying during the first weekend of Open Studio's in Norfolk and I happened to notice a flyer for it in our hotel's reception area. (What really caught my attention was a picture of an Intarsia sweater and the words knitting, hand dyed yarn etc in the description).
Open Studio's is normally run by the local Arts' Council and basically, local artists open up their studio's or workshops to the public to showcase and sometimes sell their work. It's a bit like the Open Gardens scheme.
Anyway, we got in the car and headed off to Castle Acre and as we were driving though, spotted this....
I could feel the hubbler's eyes roll up as I said 'Oooh, let's find somewhere to park and go and have a look!'
Having got past the skeins of yarn on the gate (and another festooned with more yarn) we followed the arrows though a lovely cottage garden and found this...
and this......
this.....
and this!!!
Sadly, none of the yarn was for sale ( and I tried very hard to get them to let me re-home a lovely skein of wool and Tussah Silk), so we headed back to the car to go and find a couple more Studio's.
Next stop was Linda's - who also happens to work where we were staying. It turns out that Linda lent several of her paintings for use in the TV drama Kingdom - Stephen Fry, Sunday evenings - and we are now the proud owners of one of her pictures of Edie
posted by Knitting@number9 at Sunday, May 27, 2007
3 Comments:
Oh I love "Kingdom" , isn't the little guy adorable ?
I take it you mean Millie, not Lyall? LOL! Kingdom was filmed around Swaffham and Blakeney, so we have great fun seeing all the places we have become familiar with over the last 8 years or so that we have been visiting the Brecks. It was a bit confusing to start with as we knew that the front of Peter Kingdom's house was in Swaffham, but the balcony out the back where he does a lot of his thinking is Blakeny!
Drool over that yarn and the knitting! I hope you've persuaded them to let you stock some!
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