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14 August 2011

Spinning in the Museum Gardens (and puppy update)




We were very lucky yesterday - we had lovely weather for spinning and it's a lovely setting. A lot of people don't realise that Harlow museum has beautiful walled gardens - there's a knot garden with lavender, large lawns and paved areas with seating (where we gather to spin) and some lovely planting. I found a couple of dye plants which we may be able to use for our dyeing in October - Solidago (golden rod) and Tansy





The museum is very interesting in itself - with the Roman history of Harlow, bits on the Anglo-Saxons and a room full of exhibits for each decade of the 1900s - you will see stuff your grandma was using! The old bicycles are worth a look too.

There were only a handful of us yesterday but it was still a nice meet - we had a few newbies which was really nice and I continued to spin the yarn I started last weekend at the Sammy Rally - a blend of pink silk (from the travelling tea box) and Samoyed fur from last year's Sammy rally.

My In-laws visited the pups yesterday - they were all very good (the pups that is).

Here are number one, four and five looking much more grown up now.




2 comments:

bunnits said...

The pups are adorable and growing so fast! Glad to hear the in-laws, oops,I mean pups, were good while the in-laws were there.

I love to go to our local living history museum to spin. That's where I learned when I worked there for seven years. i don't get up there to volunteer as much as I'd promised when I quit working there, but now and then I make it up there and always wonder why I don't go more often.

Question: I had the current moon gadget on my blog, looked just like yours, but it has been inoperable for some time, so finally I changed it for another that I don't like as well. Have you had any trouble with yours? Thanks.

Spinnerlady said...

My moon thing seems to work generally - my blog counter is somewhat random though. Had a look at your moon thing and I quite like it in it's own right.

It is nice to spin at the museum - it's a good environment - and full of enthusiastic and interesting people.