Recently, a guest staying at one of our two holiday cottages bought one our largest Harris Tweed cushions ; but on returning home was so pleased with how the cushion complemented her furnishings, she contacted us to request another cushion.  She didn’t want identical cushions – she was looking for designs that would contrast with eachother, yet all would settle in well in her home.

Mugwort is a plant with numerous traditional uses, including as a treatment for malaria, depression, joint pain, and a great deal more.  But it’s the use as a dye stuff that got us interested, and having read up on the subject, back at home, we immediately set out once again to the track through the dunes at Smercleit where we had found numerous large specimens of the plant.

Denise > Much to my surprise, the colour the blue Delphinium petals yielded in the dye pot was actually blue!