textile maker
As promised in my last post, this is all about how I knit a body and sleeve on my machine in preparation for hand knitting a yoke. I have knit myself four yoke jumpers in this way: my puffin cardigan, heritage puffin, fair isle yoke and my birthday yoke and without blowing my own trumpet, I have…
So I have survived another Shetland Craft Fair! I have had a very busy weekend, and I'm very happy with how it went. This year they had the stalls spread out over two parts of Clickimin, the Main hall and the Bowls hall. (Clickimin is a Leisure Centre, hence the use of a indoor Bowls…
Sorry to anybody waiting to hear from me, this past few weeks have been filled with knitting, washing, sewing, stuffing and more sewing.. on top of working full time.. phewf. I am tired, but I have had the past couple of days off to get everything finished and I'm ready for tomorrow. The Shetland Arts…
I don't know about you, but as soon as I have a lot of stuff to do I suddenly find all these other things to be doing... and the above hat is case in point. Yes, i did need a hat, but did I really need to design one? Not really.. But its done now…
Hello! Thank you all for the lovely comments about my trip to Iceland, at the moment it seems a million miles away.. I am preparing for the Shetland Arts and Craft Associations annual Christmas Craft Fair. This involves a lot of knitting. Since I work pretty much full time my knitting is resigned to evenings…
next year I am going to Iceland!!!!! As you know, I have a love for Icelandic textiles (ahem, ahem, ahem) which I thought like some of my knitting phases would come and go BUT ever since I got into it, rather than abating the urge has grown stronger.. So, I took a deep breath and…
If you read my blog you are probably interested in Shetland Textiles, so you probably knew last week was Shetland Wool Week. It is by far the busiest week of work for me and Sandra who I work in the shop at J&S with. We are pretty busy anyway but at Wool Week everything goes…
I have quite a large collection of knitwear (your so surprised..) some of which I've never mentioned on here before, and some of it certainly doesn't warrant an entire post BUT I thought people might like to see and its also handy for me.. to keep an eye on what I already have.. before I…
oh hey there! so on this Saturday I have made good progess on my Hermaness Hat as unfortunately I have been struck down with an infection that's making me feel truly rubbish.. BUT silver lining and all that means I can share my progress and also some more information about Gudruns beautiful book which me…
hello folks, so I have had a busy couple of weeks, thank you all for your lovely comments about my birthday yoke, on here and on instagram. its much appreciated as always. I had such a bad cold on my birthday that I had to leave work after an hour so only a few saw…
