Thursday 19 April 2012

Crafty Morning

Yesterday I got in my little Mini and drove to the lovely georgian town of Easingwold to a wonderful shop called The Olive Branch where upstairs there's a group of ladies who pass the morning away sitting  drinking coffee, eating  biscuits, nattering   and doing  a bit of crafting aswell. 




I was made ever so welcome  and I had a lovely time getting to know everybody,  they were a nice bunch of people, one lady was knitting a blanket for orphan children and another was making tiny blankets for stillborn babies, while Anne was doing a tapestry.


I took along a house I'm sewing  called "wolf cottage" to go with my red riding wolf display



After the class had finished I had a browse in the shops, I bought a tea towel to make into a bag and I'd noticed last time I was there there was a big basket of magazines that you could swap so I took some along and swapped them. 


 

I saw this bag with "God save our gracious Queen" printed on both sides that I'm going to make into a pair of cushions with some nice trimmings round them,





and I picked up this fairly new green wool blanket for £2 in the oxfam shop, I can see a bag being made out of that aswell, you can never have too many bags can you???


 

Got this lovely little tin to keep some buttons in, I ate all the chocolate discs straightaway as my buttons couldn't wait to go in, well that's my excuse anyway!!!



Thanks for all your get well wishes after my "episode" last week, the doctor thinks it was probrably just a bug but I've had some tests done to make sure,

bye for now,


Lucey x  ".."

11 comments:

LaaLaa said...

Ooh, what a lovely post! I am so envious of your new craft group. I really wish I could find one locally. I went to one at my local library last year but it wasn't very welcoming unfortunately. All of the ladies had been going for years with no newcomers and I don't think they were too pleased to have me tagging along. Plus, they were all 30+ years older than me. I love the tin and the bag. Gorgeous. I'm glad you're better. Xxx

Riddlers cottage flowers said...

I am sorry to hear you have not been will, I have just read your last post.Poor you! Love what you got and pleased you are feeling better, Hugs Lesley.x

Josie-Mary said...

Glad to hear you're feeling better. Lovely goodies :) x

Ali said...

Super post - the craft club looks great and loving all your new lovelies xx hmm I think I know where I am off for a nosy on Saturday :-) x

♥ emma bear forever ♥ said...

I would love to join a craft club. Looks like you had a lovely time. Very much looking forward to seeing what becomes of the blanket, those fetch quite a bit on ebay x

KC'sCourt! said...

The craft group looks very friendly.

Love the button tin
Jule xxxxxx

Twiggy said...

oooo I once went to Easingwold to buy some wellies:) Your craft group looks great and your purchases are fab
Twiggy x

Rachel said...

This sounds great, I am quite close to Easingwold, is this group just on during the week?
Rachel x

Rose H (UK) said...

Great post :o)
So glad you are feeling beter now, but it never hurts to make sure...
Have a lovely weekend.
Rose H
x

Kelly said...

Looks like a great day! And some lovely ideas! Can't wait to see the cushions!

thriftwood said...

Glad you're feeling better and love your blog ... It's new to me but will be following from now on xx