North Pennine Textile Group

 In a nod to the season, there were gingerbread to decorate, and eat, made using an 1868 recipe. Returning to the textile theme, gingerbread families were made by needle felting. At the end of the session, participants took away fleece - Teeswater, swaledale, texel and/ or northern mule - to be cleaned reading for processing next session.

Another session where we worked with our organic calico, some of us adapted and augmented our mine-dyed pieces while others worked on fresh material with beeswax...  or by folding and tying, before dyeing.  We talked about the miner's shirt project, and whether to work collaboratively on a single shirt or individually, and agreed to do a bit of both. People donated pieces of their fabric to make one shirt, and some of us even got round to cutting out collars.