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This Saturday I am going to an event hosted at the Shetland Museum and Archives which I am VERY excited about. It is called 'Authenticity in Culturally Based Knitting'. I have tried and failed before to explain some aspects about culture and knitting in relation to Shetland, and I'm really looking forward to seeing how…
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…
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…
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…
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…
hello, sorry for my blog silence, we are in the depths of winter in Shetland now which means dark mornings, dark nights, wind and rain.. very uninspiring! I had a successful craft fair, I had lots of stock so in that sense I was very organised this year but that came at the cost of…
I'm just popping in in between my Craft Fair preparations to share with you the link to a Radio programme I was involved with alongside my Auntie who works at Radio Shetland. Its all about Shetland Wool Week and if you were here in Shetland you will hear a lot of familiar voices (Hazel Tindall,…
hello!! Thank you all for your thoughtful comments on my last blog, things have been cooling down in Shetland and now the clocks have changed it is dark at 5pm :( so i took the chance to get Amy to take a few photos at work today of my most recent finished object - a…
I am an avid reader of the Fringe Association blog by Karen Templer and a few weeks ago I saw her post about a knit a long inspired by a Japanese pattern for a Cowichan style vest. As you know, I am interested in all types of traditional knitwear and Cowichan is no different. I…
Shetland Wool Week was busy but brilliant, it gets bigger and better every year. Here are some photos from the eyes of me - a Shetlander working throughout the week. Ill be back soon, til then Happy Knitting xxx
ella gordon 