Hello! I'm sorry its been quiet here for a few weeks, I've been very busy with secret knitting and I passed my driving test! which was very exciting but meant I was practising that instead of knitting - anyway I passed so that's good. I also went away for a peerie trip to Glasgow to…
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eyf purchases
Hello! So I thought I'd do something a bit different and do a video about my purchases at Edinburgh Yarn Festival, so if you are interested have a watch below! also sorry about the reflection from my glasses, I never noticed until afterwards.. typical. things mentioned: Shetland Wool Week and Crofthoose Hats! Hedgehog Fibres Kate…
edinburgh yarn festival
So I am back from Edinburgh!! The yarn festival was brilliant, it was so busy and I got to see so many of my woolly pals, I even felt a bit starstruck sometimes! I am used to people coming to Shetland so it was nice to be out there myself and seeing everyone. The picture…
crofthoose hat
Hello! here is my design for the 2016 Shetland Wool Week, the Crofthoose Hat! As you know I love crofthouse's and i'm known for my cushions but I wanted to develop my favourite image into a fair isle motif, my hat uses traditional Shetland techniques: two colour Fair Isle, corrugated ribbing and a patterned crown…
wool week
hello, thank you for all the great comments on my last post! It was a great conference and really made me think a lot about Shetland and Shetland knitting, yes I can do it even more! You might have seen on my instagram or the Shetland Wool Week blog that last week I was announced…
thoughts on authenticity
So I had a very interesting day yesterday at the Shetland Museum as mentioned in my last post. The day was all about Authenticity in Culturally Based knitting, obviously in relation to Shetland and mostly throughout the day it was in relation to Shetland Lace. There were a number of talks by lots of different…
lighthouse pullover
For reasons that will become clear at some point soon I'm still thinking about yoke jumpers a lot, they are probably my favourite thing to knit and to look at for inspiration. Although I have had a busy few weeks and it doesn't feel like I've done much knitting but over the past week or…
flowerpot
hellooo, i'm sorry for the silence over here the past little while, after new year I had two infections then it was Up Helly Aa (aka one of my fave days) then I had a horrendous flu. It was a pain, anyway I'm back in the game now and doing lots of exciting things, most…
2015
Every year WordPress sends you a handy dandy list of stats about your blog so I thought it would be fun to share my most viewed posts of the year! My top viewed post was my version of a baa-ble hat, the 2015 official Wool Week pattern by Donna Smith Next was my few new…
purple jumper
If you know me, you know I never wear or knit with purple. Like never ever. I will wear pretty much every colour (except pink)... Well here I am showing you a purple jumper I just finished knitting that I've worn twice since I did. Its a Christmas miracle. Basically we know I am an ebay…
ella gordon 