Tweed All Around

On Saturday we took a trip down to Harris, to buy some Harris Tweed. Although I am a Harris Tweed Weaver, the little left over bits I get are not useable, as they are unfinished. Once the tweed has been woven by the weaver it gets taken back to the mill, washed, shrunk and pressed, then stamped with the Orb mark to make it Harris Tweed. I bought some to make myself a new handbag, mine is looking a little worn now, after being used every day for 2 years, thing is I need to learn how to use a sewing machine so I can make it!
Look out for my finished bag in a future post (im not giving a time limit, the sewing machine looks quite complex to use!)

Below is the tweed I bought, the orange and brown dogtooth and the plain orange is going to be used for the bag, not sure on the others yet, I just liked them! They were bought from Tarbert, at the Harris Tweed shop (http://www.harristweedandknitwear.co.uk/shop.html ), any one comming to Lewis to visit should take a trip down and have a look at the shop, it is wonderful!

On the way back we took a walk on the beach wit the dog, the picture below was taken on Luskentyre Beach, and the hill in the foreground is the Isle of Taransay, where Cast Away was filmed back in 2000.