sheep tales wool festival - Saturday Sept 1st alnmouth

Sheep Tales will be taking over Hindmarsh Hall in the beautiful seaside village of Alnmouth on September 1st from 10 am till 4 pm. As usual we'll have lots of woolly goodies for sale and craft demonstrations upstairs. The Sheep Tales shepherding heritage exhibition and refreshments will be available downstairs throughout the day. This is always a very popular event, we hope you can make it and we look forward to seeing you.
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This year the following people are taking part:-

• Eta Ingham Lawrie will be selling her beautiful knitted & crocheted garments, accessories, dolls and weaving kits. Eta mainly works with sheep's wool, which she hand dyes in an amazing range of colours, using both mineral and plant dyes. 
• ​Janis Embleton of Flight Weaving will be selling her gorgeous hand woven items and demonstrating hand weaving.

• Fine Fettle Fibres from Gallery 45 in Felton will be selling a range of natural fibre yarns, knitting needles, patterns and notions.
• Jennie Howes of Skybluepink Designs will be selling her hand spun yarns & supercoil necklaces, spinning & felting fibres, knitting & crochet patterns & kits, buttons, handmade garments, accessories & homeware.
• Laura Brittain is a felter and she makes colourful bags, cushions, rugs and tiny little baby bootees. She also sells the most beautifully scented moisturising bars, made by her husband.
• Rainbow Yarns a lovely little local yarn shop in Rothbury will be selling a wide range of yarns, patterns and needles.
• The North Northumberland Spinners will be demonstrating how to spin wool yarn from fleece.
• Jon Booker of Natural Born Dyers will be selling high quality yarns and fibres, hand dyed by Jon with natural dyes which he extracts from plants. He will also be selling a range of hand turned wooden accessories for knitters and spinners, made mainly from British wood including locally harvested hardwoods
• Jane Jackson of Bright Seed Textiles will be selling her needle felted Harris Tweed "paintings" and a large range of prints and cards taken from her work featuring local landscapes, landmarks and wildlife.
• Anna Turnbull of Biteabout Arts will be demonstrating wet felting and selling her brightly coloured hand felted hats, bags, scarves, vessels, corsages and a selection of her fantastic handmade baskets.​
• Elaine King is a felter, knitter and crocheter. She makes the most exquisite and delicate hand crocheted jewellery, along with felted scarves, bags and a new range of hand made greetings cards. 
• Sue Shaw of Ewetreecraft is a needle felter who could best be described as a sculpter in wool. Sue makes amazingly detailed and often quirky creations from wool, including animals, old master portrait figures, scenes and food.