Greetings from the far North

Pia Goddard
These quiet pieces are part of a much-needed change in our buying habits, production processes, scales of output, things that need to be urgently addressed. Mindful businesses like the Shetland Tweed Company support local communities and practices, and hand in hand with that, the revival of traditional crofting and farming practice on Yell helps environmental healing, allows sheep to graze, birds to nest, wild flowers and inspiration to blossom, and of course, shuttles to fly.

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Unfinished business

Pia Goddard
There’s something about not finishing things that has a familiarity for everyone, at least everyone I’ve talked to in the shop about it. In a basket under my bed a hand-made clown suit in black and red diamond cotton, one leg coming adrift – where did I get that? 

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Stuck in Stag

Pia Goddard
I’m happiest in the shop near the wool. It appeals to me on an almost visceral level. Like many people of my generation, my childhood was littered with abominable hand-knits. Maybe being here next to the piles of yarn makes me feel like I’m working through the horror of a white and green acrylic kilt, electrostatically charged, purple and brown leg warmers that never stayed up, and the grey worsted swimsuit, heavy, expansive, embarrassing. 

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New beginnings, part III - The final cut

Pascale Spall

Where were we?

 Oh yes, Back in my teenage bedroom, 31, a 3-year-old daughter and a broken marriage.

Another new beginning.

Getting good at this.

Our own flat, shipping out of storage and cries of ‘why did I bring that?!’.

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A cheeky interlude before I lose your attention completely...

Pascale Spall
7 years old. Brownies. I’d made it to be the seconder of my six, totally unassuming and shocked by my ascension - I’d been bestowed in the woodland circle my badge of honour. Riding a high, I was someone. Until the Halloween party.

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New beginnings II

Pascale Spall

Part II

 A new beginning.

 It was that simple. Love eh? I could do my degree in Australia as an international student. In Melbourne! I loved Melbourne. It felt the most like home - It was kind of dirty like London, it was multicultural, had amazing food and unpredictable weather and it was creative. Its heart was beating with creativity.

 Where am I going with this again?

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New beginnings

Pascale Spall

New Beginnings,

 Well, this feels like it has been a long time coming. For those that don’t know I will give you a little introduction, a bit of background on where Stag & Bow came from. How she was born and how she has evolved.  But having re –read this it has become my life story. Um…. Sorry.

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