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Hello, its September which means Shetland Wool Week season is upon us, and the next few weeks will be very busy for those of us who work in the Shetland Wool industry! I have a few things to share today, firstly my design in the 2025 Shetland Wool Week Annual, the Osla Cowl: Last year…
photo: Shetland Wool Week Hello, this past week was Shetland Wool Week (yes I am very tired..) and if you know about SWW you will know they publish a companion Annual to go with it. I'm very lucky that I have had patterns in every edition so far and my contribution this year was the…
Hello everyone, like with my Roosty Hat I posted about recently sometimes when I feel a bit lost in my designing I go back to previous patterns and think about how I could use the motifs in another design. it takes some of the battles out of the project: I already like the colours and…
As soon as we got the new Natural Shetland Heritage yarn into my work I knew I wanted to make something with it, I had the idea to make yet another (this is my fourth!) variation of the Puffin Sweater by Kate Davies, its is such a great pattern and I knew it would work…
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…
This picture pleases me greatly, those hanks and that tiny little triangle is now this: My first hap!! Haps are everywhere just now, Gudrun had a hap knitalong in her group on Ravelry and then Louise from Knitbritish organised the hapalong. I have been planning to try and knit one for ages but there…
We've had some wild weather in Shetland this past couple of weeks. Typical January weather of course but still tough going, my christmas break seems a million miles away! I have had some commissions so I've been working away on those but my hand knitting has been suffering from my lack lustre feelings.. does anyone…
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…
So another year begins, I'm not bothering with any resolutions , i never keep them. I do have a few aims for the year though (aims, not resolutions..) I would like to learn to drive, to be a bit more tidy and for my business to grow! New Year in Shetland is always a bit.. crap. As…
so i have survived my first craft fair!! it was really quite good. I arrived on Friday feeling very... strange about it all. Its one thing for my friends and family to say they like my stuff (they have to say that! i'd greet if they didn't) but its very different opening up what you've been making to…
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