...the weather was brill...
...and so was the company.
Not just Beau Pere....
...but also Carolyn (Love Stitching Red)...
..who we met up with in St Ives!
..where we had a lovely lunch (3 hours chatting over sketchbooks :-)
...and then wandering through some of the lovely little back streets.
...seeing Alfred Wallis' cottage.....
...a lovely granite archway.....
...and the most photographed door in the town...
...that has it's very own special group page on Flicr HERE !!!
We exchanged some lovely pressies too!
Here's what I received...
A delightful pair of fingerless mittens... (which I needed to wear later on when it got rather cold :-)
His 'n' Hers egg cosies
Lovely dusky pink goodies...
Golden goodies (brown onion skin dyes)
..some painted Bondaweb and hand-made Tyvek beads
Patterned fabric with hand made papers and beads together with some beautiful ribbons and threads...
Gorgeous red goodies with rainbow chiffon and a piece of Egyptian fabric with gold heiroglyphs on it
...and finally.....
...silks and cottons dyed with red cabbage!
THIS is my challenge for when we next meet.....do something with it!
(I'm sure Carolyn will show her challenge when she gets around to it)
Carolyn got us both new St Ives Society of Artists sketchbooks ....
...and we're going to compare those on our next meeting too! :-)))
It was a bit rushed before we left home to go to Cornwall...
..but I did manage to finished that piece of mung bean shibori before going...
Here it is after being dyed....
...and then after being untied, dried and ironed...
...this could become a habit :-)
