We prefer to leave our customers to make their own associations between what they see on the displays in the Hebridean Woolshed, and what they see in the landscapes, seas and skies around them, here in Uist.  They’ll be all the happier for not being told by us what to think.

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.

It’s mid-July, and the wild flowers of Uist are at their most abundant, colourful, diverse and glorious!

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

There’s a side to my personality – the engineer! – that continually strives to find patterns, build structures, impose order.  Thank heavens, then, there’s another side of me – one that prefers to let go, to open wide the thought and let in the serendipitous, the many wonders that fall into our laps without us having to do a thing, and might never even have imagined existed or were possible.

D > Consider this simple Beanie hat I’m knitting with J’s latest yarn. Shetland wool, in three natural fleece colours – black, grey, white.