Doily installation...

As part of this project, ArtYarn also created a small outdoor installation made from crochet doilies and motives. This piece is installed outside the main visitor enterance to Towneley Hall and introduces the Tea Cosy project quite nicely.

Here are a few images of the installation...

If there had been plenty more time to work on this part of the project it would have been interesting to cover all 6 concrete balls, but this is a big project in it's self - maybe next time.

Until then, I'm really happy with the finished result as I have never covered anything spherical before. I really liked piecing the motives together and playing around with the arrangement.  It's really made me thing ideas for future ArtYarn projects. Watch this space!

Tea Cosies At Towneley Hall

A massive thank you to everyone who participated in the Tea Cosies For Towneley Project.
All the tea cosies are now on display at Towneley Hall for the next few weeks for the public to admire. We've had some wonderful comments from Towneley Hall about the project and they were admired by many at last weekends Tea Party event. 

Here are some pictures of the Tea Cosies in place at Towneley Hall....

Week 3, the final weekend of workshops!

It's come around all too fast, but this weekend was the last scheduled series of knitting and crochet workshops. This week the cosies will be making their way to Towneley Hall to be installed for the Tea Party event next weekend, and i'll also be installing a new piece of work in the grounds of Towneley Hall made form crocheted doilies.

I will be in the shop again this week, Wednesday morning 10-1 and Thursday morning 10 - 1, to collect the last of the tea cosies, from the participants , and finishing off one or two final bits. If you haven't made a trip to the shop yet , please come and say hi and have a knit with me before I pack up my yarn and needles.

Here is a round up of the weekends happenings at the shop in...

Tea Cosies In The Making...

This tea cosy was knitted up by Jan, which was then decorated with lace, crochet and some button embellishments by me! ...

This Tea Cosy is a rather late addition to the collection and has been pieced together with some granny squares that we're kindly donated to the project this weekend. Infact, there is a whole bag of these beautiful squares, all in different colours,  waiting to be sewn together to make blankets for  several charities in Burnely.. i will have to rope in my knitting clubs to help sew them together.. any takers??

For this tea cosy I chose blue and burgendy... the colours of Burnely FC, and i'm trimming it with a cream crocheted ruffle. Very nice!

There has been a great mixture of knitting and crochet going on this weekend and as a slight change to the scheduled knitting workshop on Sunday, by request, I ran a beginners crochet session attended by some very enthusiastic crafty ladies who picked up the technique very quickly.

Finished Tea Cosies...

And here we have the collection of tea cosies that have have been made in the shop over the past few weeks, and there are still a few to arrive later in the week. This should make a lovely display in Towneley Hall next weekend.

This wonderful tea cosy was created by Susan, who has really embraced the project and made 2 tea cosies in all. This particular one really captures one tea pot in particuar, which has an image of Towneley Hall painted onto the front of the tea pot. Susan hasn't been crocheting long, but she has really improved her skills by attending some of the workshop sessions and talking to other crocheters to learn more about the craft.

In The Shop...

 Some of the Towneley Tea-ware finally arrived in the shop for visitors and participants to admire this weekend... the full tea ware collection will go on show at Towneley Hall this coming weekend..

Making Doilies...

I have been crocheting away this weekend to make more doilies for the outdoor installation at Towneley Hall. Keep posted for more on this  as I will be installing this piece of work on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.