When I am busy, tired and a bit stressed (don't know why just now but I am..) I seem to lose all my creativity. I cant seem to fully formulate ideas and I just wander aimlessly from project to project but not getting anywhere with them! I am very lucky that when my sister moved…
Author: Ella G
natural dyeing
On Sunday afternoon I headed up to Hillswick with one of my best pals Amy to see a Natural Yarn dyeing demonstration and workshop. If you saw how much wool I own (in many,many colours) you would think I have no need to get invigled (Shetland word meaning caught up in something) with natural dyeing and…
belmont
Helloo! so, it has been a busy couple of weeks, as predicted. I had a lovely few days in Edinburgh watching one of my friends getting married. My boyfriend was a best man too as the groom is one of his best friends! So we saw lots of friends and I did A LOT of…
60 north magazine
i have something quite exciting to share, a little while ago I was asked to write something for 60 North magazine about the exhibition at the textile museum I curated, so I did and today I got a copy of the magazine! If you read my blog you are probably bored of hearing about it…
peat hill and loki
Luckily Monday dawned sunny and bright so after work Me, Mam, my sister Marianne and my niece Annie headed up to Ollaberry to go to the peat hill! We went to my Grandads house to meet my Auntie Nette who was coming with us. You have to give the hens a peerie visit, the back…
(not so) mindless knitting
thank you all for your great comments and feedback about my last blog, I nearly didnt post it because it thought it might be so boring so I'm glad I did as lots of people seemed to think it was pretty interesting! Sometimes I think I am a crap knitter. I start far too many…
boarding
So the other day I wore the sleeveless Fair Isle I showed in my last blog. I may have been slightly optimistic to say it fit me fine. Its definitely a little on the short side. I got lots of compliments on it (the joys of working in a wool shop) but I kept finding…
back home
No, I haven't been ferociously knitting.. well I have, but not these things. These are three very Shetland things, made in Shetland Wool that through the wonder of eBay (to detrimental effect on my bank balance as per) I have brought back to Shetland. Much thanks have to go to my colleague and bezzie work…
fair isle yoke
warning: slightly rambly post ahead! Thank you all for your lovely messages about my last blog, It's so great that people are really as interested in that time, and that they would go and see sometime I curated?! So thanks again. I also mentioned briefly that I was making a Fair Isle yoke, greatly inspired…
oil/knitting
Ive never organised an exhibition before so the past couple of months have been a crash course in how to do so.. Obviously I love textiles in many shapes and forms so when I was given the opportunity to curate the 2014 exhibition at the Shetland Textile Museum (of which I am a trustee) I…
ella gordon 