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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…
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…
Hello, I'm not intentionally dragging out my Iceland posts for dramatic effect, things have been so busy this week but today I am back with some pictures from one of my favourite parts about my trip, the Istex yarn factory! I have a very healthy *ahem* stash of Icelandic yarn so I was really looking…
When I am busy, tired and a bit stressed (don't know why just now but I am..) I seem to lose all my creativity. I cant seem to fully formulate ideas and I just wander aimlessly from project to project but not getting anywhere with them! I am very lucky that when my sister moved…
On Sunday afternoon I headed up to Hillswick with one of my best pals Amy to see a Natural Yarn dyeing demonstration and workshop. If you saw how much wool I own (in many,many colours) you would think I have no need to get invigled (Shetland word meaning caught up in something) with natural dyeing and…
very aptly to my current situation November is also WOVEMBER, it was established in November 2011, it has grown into an annual, month-long-celebration of WOOL. last year my pal Sarah gave me a woolly brooch like the ones above and it has been pinned on my jacket ever since.. so when i saw you could buy…
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