........ after the excitement of yesterday's lambs and donkeys, I hope you are not too bored by today's post of scenery and sewing (and some excellent sconnage)!! I headed over to Kelso on Saturday morning for the Abbey Quilters' workshop. It turned out to be a quiet day, with only seven of us there. But it got off to a very good start when the lovely Val produced a tin of delicious scones, topped with a tasty, sharp cheddar
then at lunchtime she produced a wonderful chocolate tray bake - yum, yum!
I was working on my samples for my upcoming classes - more of that later. On Sunday we got up to blue skies - hooray! We decided to go for a walk to have another look at the Archimedes screws, as they were having problems with them when we were there just before Christmas with Stuart and Alison. There was a lot of water going over the cauld
and a lot going through the screws
I paused to read the informative signs (click on the photos to enlarge them)
now that the building work is finished, we were able to walk on along the riverbank
I wonder why someone had spray painted this pine cone
we walked back to the Waterwheel cafe for a cuppa - but had a diversion over to the neighbouring field to take photos of the sheep
the scones were delicious ...... one cheese and one fruit
I took some photos of the scenery as we drove back down to Hawick - you can see a little bit of snow on the hills in the distance
today I finished off the prep work hhat I was doing on Saturday for the needlecase, which is week one of the classes, and pinned all the stages to a polystyrene sheet
I finally decided which fabrics to use for the kits that the students will get
this is what they will get on the first morning - I have still to add the ricrac and a length of ribbon
the last thing to go in the pack will be the worksheets - I know they will be last as I haven't written them yet!
I was very spoiled this afternoon when Malcolm brought out my hot chocolate ...... he had bought some custard doughnuts when he was out this morning ........ I will have to work extra hard on the implements of torture for a few mornings to work off the calories!!
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