Wild Rose Escapes

I had a wonderful week with Rosie, on her spinning retreat. We spent a wonderful day a half creating a fantastic range of dyed wool and learning all about its processing. Then a beautifully relaxed afternoon exploring the views points of Glen Afric. We had a amazing evening learning waulking songs - traditional song for felting the tweed. Then it was time to work with the wool and try and spin it into wool. Two challenging but rewarding days later on this and a vast level of improvement cou...

I had a lovely time on Rosie's Dying and Spinning course. Comfy accommodation and great food. The atmosphere was very relaxed, but well-organised at the same time, and I really feel like I've embarked on a new journey.

A fantastic week learning to use natural dyes, enjoying fabulous scenery and some chilled spinning with even some Gaelic music included! I came home totally relaxed and with lots of beautiful dyed fibre to play with. The icing on the cake was lovely home cooked food and spacious accommodation in a beautiful setting. Rosie is natural teacher and very knowledgeable and looked after us so well.

Despite all the COVID precautions, Rosie gave us a wonderful weeks holiday. The food was gorgeous, accommodation lovely, company excellent and the crafts were interesting, informative and fun! We had a lovely day walking in Glen Affric, 3 days in the woods at Rosie’s place learning how to dye fleece and 2 days at the accommodation spinning with Ally! The whole week was faultless and I can’t thank Rosie enough for giving us such a good time!

Gorgeous location, and Rosie and Alex are the loveliest people you could hope to meet. Rosie has so much dyeing knowledge and is very good at teaching through experience with a really hands-on approach, and she also gave time and thought to every question we asked. I went to a natural dye weekend here and had the best time, met some lovely people, bought a gorgeous silk scarf, and learnt a bewildering amount. There were really touching details like the hand sewn notebooks she made us for maki...