First, of course, I have to start by revealing the Christmas cake, after it was unwrapped!
mmmm - rich and delicious!! Several times between now and Christmas, I will drizzle brandy over it, so it will be even more moist. In the past there have small disputes over the icing of our Christmas cakes, as I don't like marzipan, but this problem has been resolved - no marzipan under the icing, and marzipan fruits on the top for Malcolm!!
While we are on the subject of cakes ..... of course there was cake yesterday at patch'n'chat - in fact there were two -
a border tart
iced ginger bread
Yes, I had a piece of each!! We could have eaten them in style, as the table in the shop has been laid to show off Christmas place mats
If you would like to make these mats, do check out Borderland Fabrics' website, to get in touch with the shop to buy the fabrics.
Now on to today - we set off this morning for the village of St Abbs over on the east coast. It was a beautiful morning and we had a lovley run over. We were heading to another event organised by local wool shop Woolfish - a cornucopia of all things woolly. Malcolm came in to have a cup of coffee, but then he left me to immerse myself in all the wonderful woolly goodies. (he went for a walk along the clifftop - taking lots of photos for me, which you can see tomorrow in Shadow Shot Sunday!!) I haven't yet taken photos of the things I bought, but of course I did take photos of some of the stalls. First is the exceedingly colourful stall of my lovely friend Lindsay
Every time I see Lindsay she has made all sorts of different, interesting things, and they are always beautifully presented.
The next lot of loveliness was on the stall of Janis Embleton - all sorts of super handwoven delights
And then I succumbed to the most beautiful hank of pure silk lace weight yarn from fyberspates - I will have to knit something very special with it
Unfortunately the llamas and alpacas weren't there today - I know I showed you photos of them when we were there in the spring, but you can never have too many photos of such lovely animals!!