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Day 100 🧶 Isla Munro 100 days of weaving, done!This year’s project was less about finished pieces and more about develop...
08/09/2026

Day 100 🧶 Isla Munro

100 days of weaving, done!

This year’s project was less about finished pieces and more about developing my weaving practice: experimenting, pushing further into structures, figuring out the physics with really simple equipment.

For Day 100 I made this sampler in one evening, using all my own yarn and playing with the elements that make up the Glen Check weaving pattern. Glen Check was designed in Glenurquhart, near Loch Ness, in a village I used to live in, so it felt like a particularly nice place to land.

There were plenty of days over the last 100 when I really did not want to weave 😂 but that was part of the point too.

Big thanks to Isla Munro for facilitating 🤍🖤🤍

From sheep to skein 🐑 → 🧶This enormous pile of yarn all came from one sheep: Delilah, a much-loved Ryeland here in Perth...
05/09/2026

From sheep to skein 🐑 → 🧶

This enormous pile of yarn all came from one sheep: Delilah, a much-loved Ryeland here in Perthshire.

Her fleece has been skirted, washed, prepared, spun and plied entirely by hand, and after what feels like approximately nine thousand years of spinning, the final skeins are finished.

This batch is also a little milestone for Highland Magic: it’s the first yarn I’ve tagged as both my own handspun and as a supporter of The Farmer’s Yarn.

The Farmer’s Yarn is about celebrating British wool that travels directly from farmers into the hands of makers, outside the usual depot system. That’s something very close to what I want Highland Magic to stand for: wool with a known origin, valued for what it is, with the people, animals and places behind it still attached to the finished yarn.

And it doesn’t get much more traceable than being able to show you a photograph and say:

This is Delilah. This is her yarn. 🤍🐑🤍🐑🤍

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A pile of lichen, stone, mist and impossible pink. 💖I started with 500g of white Rambouillet fleece and four natural-dye...
31/08/2026

A pile of lichen, stone, mist and impossible pink. 💖

I started with 500g of white Rambouillet fleece and four natural-dye baths:

• cool pink from cochineal
• soft peach-pink from madder root
• periwinkle-grey from logwood and titanium
• lichen green made by layering logwood and titanium over cutch and fustic

Once the fleece was dry, I began carding the colours into a family of shifting batts rather than blending everything into one uniform shade. Some are quiet and lichen-like; others move through salmon, mauve and startling cochineal pink.

I’ve added wisps of very fine antique flax for a dry, weathered gleam, plus the tiniest traces of blue-steel Angelina—just enough to suggest wet stone catching the light.

The plan is to spin the batts into a sequential, chain-plied yarn and—if the finished meterage agrees—crochet it into a long, witchy waistcoat.

Natural dyeing is always the beginning of a conversation rather than the end: first the dye plants make the colours, then carding changes their relationships, spinning changes them again, and eventually the cloth tells you what they became.

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That’s a wrap on today’s art fair- I think the new display worked really well!It was a very quiet one for footfall, but ...
15/08/2026

That’s a wrap on today’s art fair- I think the new display worked really well!

It was a very quiet one for footfall, but I still made some lovely sales, chatted to some lovely people, and managed to finish three skeins of handspun yarn while I was there!

I also got to put the new Highland Magic weaving kits through their first proper outing, alongside handspun yarn, Shetland Aran, woven textiles and my little textile artworks.

My next in-person event is the Kyleside Wool Fest with Highland Wool in September. In the meantime, if you need yarn head to Karen Price, M A D E i n S T I R L I N G or The Caledonian Wool Co 💓

Something new is coming to Highland Magic Fibre Arts 🥰I’ve been putting together these little Handmade Scottish Weaving ...
11/08/2026

Something new is coming to Highland Magic Fibre Arts 🥰

I’ve been putting together these little Handmade Scottish Weaving Kits for this weekend’s Art Fair at Strathearn Arts.

Each kit contains a wooden bookmark loom, pre-cut linen warp, reusable handspun starter yarn, a rainbow of my handspun yarns, a little collection of local fibre and art yarn for texture, weaving tools and a simple guide to get you started.

The idea is simple: open the box and start making.

No experience needed. No pattern to follow. Just yarn, texture, colour and a tiny loom waiting to become something entirely your own.

And if you find yourself wanting to go bigger, I’ll also have larger looms available as an add-on. 👀

£32 per kit
Larger loom +£8

I’ll have these, yarns and my fibre art at:

📍 Strathearn Arts, Crieff
📅 Saturday 15 August
⏰ 10am–4pm
🎟️ Free admission

A first batch of single-flock Hampshire Down cross, Lopi-style handspun is finished and on its way to Caledonian Wool Co...
11/08/2026

A first batch of single-flock Hampshire Down cross, Lopi-style handspun is finished and on its way to Caledonian Wool Co!

Chunky, lofty, woolly and gloriously squishy, in a small run of naturally dyed colours: Peridot, Aquamarine, Iolite, Carnelian, and Ruby.

They’ll be available at Caledonian Wool Co soon.

🐑✨ Highland Magic is popping up locally!This Saturday I’ll be at Strathearn Arts in Crieff for the Art Fair, as part of ...
10/08/2026

🐑✨ Highland Magic is popping up locally!

This Saturday I’ll be at Strathearn Arts in Crieff for the Art Fair, as part of the Highland Games weekend.

I’ll be bringing along some of what I’ve been making lately:

🧶 Naturally dyed local yarn
🎨 Handwoven art pieces and garments
🧵 Weaving kits

Saturday 15 August · 10am–4pm
📍 Strathearn Arts, Crieff
🎟️ Free admission

I’m a Crieff-based fibre artist and maker, so it’s particularly lovely to have the chance to bring Highland Magic out of the studio and meet people locally.

If you’re around for the Highland Games weekend, come and have a browse, squish some yarn and say hey 🤍

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