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.