Clarens
I have posted about great shwe shwe finds in the little town of Clarens before and now have some more great finds to add.
My marvelous husband and I went down to Clarens a few weeks ago for the Clarens Mountain Bike Race. Its also were we spent our honeymoon so we took a day off and made a nice long weekend of it all.
I cylced in my first race ever- granted it was the fun race and many nine year old kids beat me, but I have only been cycling for a few months and am determined to keep it fun and never take myself too seriously when cycling. (something I learnt this week from the a talk by the amazing conductor Ben Zander is know as Rule Number 6 - Never take yourself too seriously )
As part of the festivities around the race, the town of Clarens hosted a flea market on the lovely town square where various community projects could display their work.
Because my little 20 km race was over long before my husband's 75 km trek into the mountains I have plenty of time to ride home, take a long bath, get the sand out my ears and come back to peruse the stalls at leisure.
Several of the stalls had objects made of shwe shwe - one had shwe shwe pillow cases, another had knapsacks made out of shwe . The one that caught my eye was a stall with several hand made products, including a red wrap around skirt embellished with bead work. If I didn't already have several skirts made out of this fabric I would have bought it in a flash.
What I did buy from the Silver Hope Community Project stall was a few lovely cards made up of intricate patchwork of the bits and pieces of left over shwe shwe. The little pieces are cut out the selvedge of the material and then stitched on to another colour with zig zag and other decorative stitches.
