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Doily installation... 16 Jun 2010 | 07:30 am
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 introd...
Tea Cosies At Towneley Hall 16 Jun 2010 | 06:51 am
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 h...
Week 3, the final weekend of workshops! 7 Jun 2010 | 12:09 pm
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 ...
Crochet bits and bobs for Towneley.. 4 Jun 2010 | 08:41 am
As part of the project for Towneley Hall I am making a small outdoor installation using crocheted doilies and movites. I hope that this will cover one of the concrete spheres at the entrance to Townel...
Weekend 2 at the shop 31 May 2010 | 05:26 am
The shop has been full of activity this weekend with lots of people coming along to learn how to knit and crochet, how to follow a pattern and i demonstrated lots of new techniques to jazz up their t...
Burnley's Big Knit Day 27 May 2010 | 04:21 am
Tea Cosies For Towneley isn't the only knitting project currently taking place this summer in Burnley Town Centre. Artist Liz Nobel is making a project for Burnley's Big Knit Day and you can take par...
Ravelry Group 24 May 2010 | 09:36 am
We now have a Tea Cosies For Towneley group on Ravelry for you to join if you are a member of this fabulous social networking site for knitters and crocheters. In the group you will get all the info ...
Week 1 @ The Open Shop. 24 May 2010 | 09:05 am
This week ArtYarn moved into the shop, or the 'knitting studio' as I am now calling it. With great thanks to Janes Wool Shop in Burnley, and to people who have stopped by to make a yarn donation sover...
Open Shop artists... 17 May 2010 | 08:46 pm
ArtYarn are the first of 5 commissioned artists / artists groups to be given the wonderful opportunity of working at The Open Shop Project in Burnley Town Centre. Visit the Open Shop Project blog to f...
Tea Cosy 16 May 2010 | 06:12 am
We have been testing out some new tea cosy patterns this week, and here is a beautiful finished tea cosy by Sarah. We will be using the tried and tested tea cosy patterns to modify into new knitted cr...
