And another timely video from you, Jane. Thank you. I listened/watched whilst hand-spinning dog hair (as one does 😂). My ancestors were velvet weavers and cotton spinners. I took up spinning a couple of years ago, hand and wheel, to strengthen that connection to my heritage, especially to my female heritage, and to honour those transformative skills for which women particularly, including my ancestors, were persecuted. But also I fall into that unhappy bracket you speak of, currently sorting through my late mother-in-law's belongings, including her needlework stash going back nearly a century. In and amongst the sadness and poignancy, especially as she was my chief rescuer of dropped knitting stitches, there are lovely moments of discovery and delight and her thrifty Yorkshire character would heartily approve of my making good use of existing resources!
Thanks Ursula - it is really interesting how with so many people it is needlework and photos that get kept and passed on. The dog hair spinning sounds intriguing x
Our old dog generated so much hair that I started collecting it thinking it had to be useful for something other than coating my clothes and furnishings. When I learned to spin I decided I wanted to try to spin the dog hair in the hope that one day I would have enough yarn to make something from it that would remind me of her. I hand spin it because it's quite delicate to spin, even when blended with a more robust fibre. Actually, in the process, once again I'm just coating my clothes and furnishings with her hair... 🙄
Is it only certain breads of dog fur? Obviously, length is part of it but does it need to be a certain texture? I ask because I have a Welsh border collie and she gives me lots of fur.
It’s been a muzzled then wet Coventry today so seeing the frost was a welcome view. Also seeing your dogs enjoying a romp about. Thank you for some calm in this madness of current life. Stitch and creativity are indeed, life savers🙂
I appreciate your ethos to encourage creativity rather than commerce but I love the pin cushion I purchased from you. I do basic needlepoint as a relaxation endeavor while my husband of 46 years watches television so I use the pin cushion daily.
Frost on the thistles! Wonderful! I had a thought, and it may not fit in with your vision of “Stitches,” but there is a woman in England whose business is purchasing antique samplers and charting them for the modern stitcher. Her name is Nichola Parkman, and her business is Hands Across the Sea. She has a wealth of knowledge and is a very interesting and generous speaker. She has a RUclips channel that might interest you.
Adore the idea of honouring skills that have often been overlooked forgotten or disregarded. Hidden from history often female skills. Wonderful Jane Also the hot Latin sound with cold brrrrrr beautiful imagery is a gorgeous view. ❤
Thanks Treeza. I think that we are just beginning to realise how many female skills were ‘disappeared’ - often by women wanting to fit into a particular culture as well as by men seeking to trivialise. Now books and exhibitions are re- examining them and it’s time to reconnect. I love Bossanova, but everyone else in my house is less impressed, so I live my days when I’m in my own with a Latin swing.
Jane, you are a treasure! Thank you for sharing your creativity and love of nature with the world! I cannot wait to join in on the upcoming Stitched course! 🪡
I love how you say we’re honouring those who have passed and whom we inherited skills and/or material from. I hadn’t thought of it that way. Thank you, Jane, for this epiphany moment!
I’m not sure how that works - when I buy from the US I click the price in $ to buy and it is translated in my bank statement into £, but all that is something that the bank does, it is not my part of the website.
As a thought, why not approach Danial Shenstone, the Black Belt Barrister, BBB for short and ask him about the law of this and the government handling of the information. He helps us all to understand points of law and how we comply.
This week there has been a couple of big webinars about it - one by Etsy, one HMRC and both have been good but it is clear that small businesses could not hope to comply with new regulations as you need a designated representative within the EU, employed to guarantee that your products comply with the new safety regulations. All small businesses are being forced to wait for a workaround to appear as employing people, even paying per order if that gets set up as an option, would be too expensive. J x
I have a question about the monthly subscription- does it renew on the date you join or on the first of the month? If I join today, will my monthly charge be on the 13th of every month? Thanks. I love this idea for the Stitched course
Hi Juliann - it goes out in the day you initially join - so if you join today then that will always be 13th. (29-31st tend to go out on 28th because of February) thank you. J x
Oh wow, but why!? I'm in the EU and used to order lots of stuff from the UK. Now after Brexit that became more complicated and there were always new regulations coming in. Until 2023 when some sellers stoped shipping here altogether bc of the complications of goods getting stuck at customs and such. Some still got through assuming that the recipient filled out detailed online forms and then paid fees and taxes on not just the goods price, but on the shipping charge as well ie. I bought a £4 book, some £10 was shipping and in the end with taxes and fees I paid about £25 for the book! Soooo annoying as there's lots of stuff you can get in UK only. I wonder what they're after by putting a halt to such business altogether....
Yes it would take me about 15 minutes per order to fill out the forms to send an order to the EU previously- obviously not something I can pass onto customers. This is new safety regulations in the EU and the requirement that each business employ a representative within the EU to check that products comply with those regulations. It’s clearly not workable for small businesses and I hope that a workaround appears, one that isn’t just ‘sell through a big company’. It is particularly galling that it applies to orders from Northern Ireland too -
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And another timely video from you, Jane. Thank you. I listened/watched whilst hand-spinning dog hair (as one does 😂). My ancestors were velvet weavers and cotton spinners. I took up spinning a couple of years ago, hand and wheel, to strengthen that connection to my heritage, especially to my female heritage, and to honour those transformative skills for which women particularly, including my ancestors, were persecuted. But also I fall into that unhappy bracket you speak of, currently sorting through my late mother-in-law's belongings, including her needlework stash going back nearly a century. In and amongst the sadness and poignancy, especially as she was my chief rescuer of dropped knitting stitches, there are lovely moments of discovery and delight and her thrifty Yorkshire character would heartily approve of my making good use of existing resources!
Thanks Ursula - it is really interesting how with so many people it is needlework and photos that get kept and passed on. The dog hair spinning sounds intriguing x
Our old dog generated so much hair that I started collecting it thinking it had to be useful for something other than coating my clothes and furnishings. When I learned to spin I decided I wanted to try to spin the dog hair in the hope that one day I would have enough yarn to make something from it that would remind me of her. I hand spin it because it's quite delicate to spin, even when blended with a more robust fibre. Actually, in the process, once again I'm just coating my clothes and furnishings with her hair... 🙄
@@ursulaclark287 I can completely understand that x
Is it only certain breads of dog fur? Obviously, length is part of it but does it need to be a certain texture? I ask because I have a Welsh border collie and she gives me lots of fur.
It’s been a muzzled then wet Coventry today so seeing the frost was a welcome view. Also seeing your dogs enjoying a romp about.
Thank you for some calm in this madness of current life. Stitch and creativity are indeed, life savers🙂
I appreciate your ethos to encourage creativity rather than commerce but I love the pin cushion I purchased from you. I do basic needlepoint as a relaxation endeavor while my husband of 46 years watches television so I use the pin cushion daily.
Frost on the thistles! Wonderful! I had a thought, and it may not fit in with your vision of “Stitches,” but there is a woman in England whose business is purchasing antique samplers and charting them for the modern stitcher. Her name is Nichola Parkman, and her business is Hands Across the Sea. She has a wealth of knowledge and is a very interesting and generous speaker. She has a RUclips channel that might interest you.
Adore the idea of honouring skills that have often been overlooked forgotten or disregarded. Hidden from history often female skills. Wonderful Jane
Also the hot Latin sound with cold brrrrrr beautiful imagery is a gorgeous view. ❤
Thanks Treeza. I think that we are just beginning to realise how many female skills were ‘disappeared’ - often by women wanting to fit into a particular culture as well as by men seeking to trivialise. Now books and exhibitions are re- examining them and it’s time to reconnect.
I love Bossanova, but everyone else in my house is less impressed, so I live my days when I’m in my own with a Latin swing.
Jane, you are a treasure! Thank you for sharing your creativity and love of nature with the world! I cannot wait to join in on the upcoming Stitched course! 🪡
Thank you Christy. And I will get your order out to you on Monday morning. Have a great weekend J X
@ wonderful! Thank you!
I love how you say we’re honouring those who have passed and whom we inherited skills and/or material from. I hadn’t thought of it that way. Thank you, Jane, for this epiphany moment!
Thanks Catherine. Xxx
Lovely hearing about your plans. Can someone in USA buy your course in US dollars?
I’m not sure how that works - when I buy from the US I click the price in $ to buy and it is translated in my bank statement into £, but all that is something that the bank does, it is not my part of the website.
As a thought, why not approach Danial Shenstone, the Black Belt Barrister, BBB for short and ask him about the law of this and the government handling of the information. He helps us all to understand points of law and how we comply.
This week there has been a couple of big webinars about it - one by Etsy, one HMRC and both have been good but it is clear that small businesses could not hope to comply with new regulations as you need a designated representative within the EU, employed to guarantee that your products comply with the new safety regulations.
All small businesses are being forced to wait for a workaround to appear as employing people, even paying per order if that gets set up as an option, would be too expensive. J x
I have a question about the monthly subscription- does it renew on the date you join or on the first of the month? If I join today, will my monthly charge be on the 13th of every month? Thanks. I love this idea for the Stitched course
Hi Juliann - it goes out in the day you initially join - so if you join today then that will always be 13th. (29-31st tend to go out on 28th because of February) thank you. J x
Oh wow, but why!? I'm in the EU and used to order lots of stuff from the UK. Now after Brexit that became more complicated and there were always new regulations coming in. Until 2023 when some sellers stoped shipping here altogether bc of the complications of goods getting stuck at customs and such. Some still got through assuming that the recipient filled out detailed online forms and then paid fees and taxes on not just the goods price, but on the shipping charge as well ie. I bought a £4 book, some £10 was shipping and in the end with taxes and fees I paid about £25 for the book! Soooo annoying as there's lots of stuff you can get in UK only. I wonder what they're after by putting a halt to such business altogether....
Yes it would take me about 15 minutes per order to fill out the forms to send an order to the EU previously- obviously not something I can pass onto customers. This is new safety regulations in the EU and the requirement that each business employ a representative within the EU to check that products comply with those regulations. It’s clearly not workable for small businesses and I hope that a workaround appears, one that isn’t just ‘sell through a big company’.
It is particularly galling that it applies to orders from Northern Ireland too -