Well hello there!
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| Knotty by Nature Fine Arts! |
This past Wednesday evening, the three of us barrelled into Teresa's car and raced from UVic to "Knotty By Nature". Time was of the essence as we fought the winding trail (A.K.A.: Foul Bay Road) to make it there before close. We arrive in the nick of time and quickly made nice with the owner. To our surprise, we were not the last customers as we had feared. We quickly became overwhelmed as our senses were overloaded with different colours, textures, fabrics and the smell of Kelsey's childhood: she walked around with a soap in her hand the entire time, full of nostalgia, claiming that THIS was the quintessential smell of her youth!
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| Us girls grabbing our wool! |
After a few exchanges with Linda, an experienced nalbinder up island, we had a list of proper nalbinding supplies to procure. The owner of the shop was unfamiliar with nalbinding, but was extremely helpful in showing us the right kinds of wool, spun our yarn into balls, and graciously took our information so that he could put us into contact with any other nalbinders if he came across any! We were there well after close; Kelsey and myself couldn't decide on our yarn colours for ages! She ended up with a red/ purple colour pallet, while mine is a blue/green. Teresa quickly picked out a beautiful grey! --We know these aren't authentic viking age colours... but hey, we wanted to be able to enjoy our end product, and pretty yarn will definitely help with that!
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| Ring Pins?! |
The only downside to our beautiful fluffy wool is that Teresa had originally bought nalbinding needles online for us to use to authenticate the process, however, our wool is too thick for the eye of the needle so we will have to rely fully on our own creations! Lets see where that takes us!
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| The moon outside the shop! |
(Clearly we left after the 6:00 store close, look how
beautiful the sky was when we left the shop!)
-JF
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