The Woolscape Project in pictures.... from 2014 and recently seen in the Old Galahouse Museum - it was a great project to be involved with!
We had a great day on Saturday, with a record number of visitors to the Wool Festival. Thank you to everyone who came along to share in the woolliness. Here are some photos of the culmination of our workshops this summer at the St Abbs Visitor Centre -
The St Abbs Woolscape Project! The exhibition will be on display in the Visitor Centre until around the middle of November, so if you can, please get along and see it in person.
The St Abbs Woolscape Project! The exhibition will be on display in the Visitor Centre until around the middle of November, so if you can, please get along and see it in person.
The Woolscape Project
We have just announced the dates for a series of workshops to make woolly stuff for the Woolscape project. Please click on this link to find out more....
Humpbacked whale - seen at St Abbs 2011
St Abbs Village is set in a wonderful natural environment. With a Voluntary Marine Reserve to seaward and a National Nature Reserve to landward, there is plenty going on and lots of things to see all year round. However, we can't always get to see it all, the terrain around St Abbs Head is perhaps a little tough for some of us and we can't all dive and swim like fish around the harbour rocks to view life under the sea.
In light of the natural abundance of the area, we would like to announce the launch of a joint project - the St Abbs Wool Festival and the St Abbs Visitor Centre have joined forces to set about the creation of a woolly rendition of the Sightings List on display in the Visitor Centre - The Woolscape Project.
What we want to do - and we are relying on you all getting involved - is to make, in lovely wool, copies of the many and varied flora and fauna seen on and around St Abbs Head - both on land, in the air and under the sea. The collected works will be displayed in and around St Abbs at the next Wool Festival in October 2014.
Take a look at some examples on display at the Wool Festival on the 1st March and pick up a pattern or two to knit or crochet some starfish, jelly fish, corals, limpets, or cockles, a little seaweed, - maybe felt a fish or two! We hope to have some patterns to make some birds - puffins perhaps, or how about a kittiwake? There will also be a whale....
There will be space in both venues to sit and pick up some wool and a hook or needles and have a go yourselves. Anna Turnbull will be giving a felting demonstration in the VC.
We have arranged the first in a season of half day workshops in the Visitor Centre so that you can come along and have a go at felting, knitting or crochet during the week of 7th to 11th April - please sign up at the Visitor Centre during the Wool Festival!
A further series of workshops are planned throughout the summer, so keep in touch with the facebook pages for the VC and the Wool Festival for more information as it becomes available.
If you want to make something before the event, then please bring it along and give it to a member of staff in the VC - so to your hooks, needles and felting tables and let's get started!
If you have any patterns or designs that you think would be suitable for the project, then please bring them along and let's see if we can't fit them in somehow!
In light of the natural abundance of the area, we would like to announce the launch of a joint project - the St Abbs Wool Festival and the St Abbs Visitor Centre have joined forces to set about the creation of a woolly rendition of the Sightings List on display in the Visitor Centre - The Woolscape Project.
What we want to do - and we are relying on you all getting involved - is to make, in lovely wool, copies of the many and varied flora and fauna seen on and around St Abbs Head - both on land, in the air and under the sea. The collected works will be displayed in and around St Abbs at the next Wool Festival in October 2014.
Take a look at some examples on display at the Wool Festival on the 1st March and pick up a pattern or two to knit or crochet some starfish, jelly fish, corals, limpets, or cockles, a little seaweed, - maybe felt a fish or two! We hope to have some patterns to make some birds - puffins perhaps, or how about a kittiwake? There will also be a whale....
There will be space in both venues to sit and pick up some wool and a hook or needles and have a go yourselves. Anna Turnbull will be giving a felting demonstration in the VC.
We have arranged the first in a season of half day workshops in the Visitor Centre so that you can come along and have a go at felting, knitting or crochet during the week of 7th to 11th April - please sign up at the Visitor Centre during the Wool Festival!
A further series of workshops are planned throughout the summer, so keep in touch with the facebook pages for the VC and the Wool Festival for more information as it becomes available.
If you want to make something before the event, then please bring it along and give it to a member of staff in the VC - so to your hooks, needles and felting tables and let's get started!
If you have any patterns or designs that you think would be suitable for the project, then please bring them along and let's see if we can't fit them in somehow!
