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2012 Greetings

 Hello all

I hope you have enjoyed your Christmas type festivities wherever and whatever they may have been. We spent Christmas in Hanoi in Vietnam which was pretty unusual. There were some signs of "Christmassy-ness" with a few cotton wool snowmen and sparkly trees for people to have their photos taken standing in front of. Santa hats were also much in evidence.

On the evening of Christmas Eve the centre of the city was packed solid with people and motorbikes - nobody doing anything in particular, just looking at all the other people! Hanoi is full of motorbikes at the best of times but that was ridiculous.  

 

New Year will be spent here in Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand. It feels as if we have finally come to the end of our trans Asia journey now, having travelled on the Silk Route through Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan to China and Indo China. We will be travelling and buying in Thailand and several other countries around here - Laos, Burma, Malaysia and Indonesia, but the really exciting stuff is over for now.

    

Meri has been doing fantastic work keeping our business going while we are away - I am told that the shop is looking lovely, she has been sending out all the orders and she even took our stand to the Knitting and Stitching show in Harrogate. We could certainly not have been able to take our "Textile Research Sabbatical Year" without her.  I wrote in my blog at the beginning that we would have to keep our fingers crossed that our business, our bank balance and our marriage could survive! Well, Meri is ensuring that at least the first one will!

She is planning to do some travelling herself when we get back - to South America for a weaving course. She is getting quite handy on the back-strap loom.

We will be back home to take over again in May. Before that though, there are a few events to let you know about. Meri will be on the stand at all of these so give her a Hello! and a pat on the back if you come to any of the following ...

On Sunday February 12th there's the Llangollen Quilt Show at the Eisteddford centre which we have not been to for a few years.

On Sunday March 4th (always the first Sunday in March) its the ever popular Manchester Antique Textile Fair - now the 20th anniversary of this great Show for unusual, vintage, antique and ethnic clothes and textiles. Everybody loves it, and we always have lots of our latest finds there.

On Saturday March 17th its the 4th World Textile Day at The Minerva Centre, Llanidloes. An exhibition of stitched and embroidered textiles from around the world plus a talk from Martin Conlon and a demonstration of Japanese Sashiko by Susan Briscoe. More details on our events page or by emailing us.

On April 28th - 29th  we'll be at Wonderwool Wales for their 7th annual Show.

And finally a plug for our brand new Scottish World Textile Day. I shall be fully charged up and raring to go with tales of "Textiles and Costumes for Ceremonies and other Special Occasions". The clothes are so lovely its one of my favourite talks. If you live in Scotland, I hope you'll support it and if not maybe you know someone who would be interested?

It's at Bridge of Allan on Saturday June 16th

Finally a very Happy New Year to all our friends and customers - everyone who has bought from us, listened to a talk, or come to a Show or exhibition - a heartfelt Thank You for your support.

Best wishes

Diane

 

 

 

All news entries:

29 Dec 2011		2012 Greetings
26 Oct 2011		An exciting delivery
22 Sep 2011		Asia Textile Journey blogs from Diane
27 Aug 2011		A Silk Carpet from Khiva?
18 Jun 2011		Woodblocks and Festival of Quilts
7 Jun 2011		Gap year for Jim and Di
3 Mar 2011		Spring Newsletter
16 Dec 2010		Happy Christmas and New Year
15 Nov 2010		Christmas Shopping!
23 Oct 2010		The Real Colour Show
16 Sep 2010		The Festival of Quilts, Michaelmas and Autumn Events
13 Jul 2010		Festivals of Beer and Wool and Quilts