Decorated Silver Birch Spoon

I don't tend to do much decoration on my spoon handles, but when I found out my friend Simon Hill would be teaching spoon decoration at Spoonfest in a couple of weeks, I thought it best to get some practice in! 

Last year at Spoonfest, Simon and I took the same carved engraving workshop with Janharm ter Brugge but I didn't do much with what I learnt there. Simon on the other hand, has been working hard on his kolrossing and chip carving skills, to great effect:

One of Simon's recently sold spoons