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Yellow loose top hung from blue rail. Roses, flowered playing cards and horse shoes on top of rail

Crochet Cast On

This is the first of two posts on the Aeolian top pattern highlighting techniques you may not have used before.  Our Aeolian top is ideal when summer days are not as warm as they should be, it's also easy to …
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A yellow top hanging on a vintage blue coat rail. Roses are placed on top of the rail with two playing cards.

Modified Three Needle Bind Off

Aeolian Top This is the second of two tutorials for the Aeolian top. To mirror the chain edge created by the Crochet Cast-On we used a Modified 3-Needle Bind-Off at the side seams. This eliminates the purl bumps and gives …
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Dyed yarn

Pink

There has been a bit of a pink theme this month.  Having eaten my way through a lot of avocados lately I saved the stones and skins for dyeing.

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Eucalyptus

Natural dyeing with Eucalyptus bark

Before I played with wool I grew plants for a living, there were a lot of hardy exotics in my life and I still occasionally spend the odd morning at the nursery talking about plant production and happened to notice …

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Sewing Rompers

From our first show at Woolfest last year we realised there was a small problem with our kits.   So many people said that they wanted to buy one but they had baby boys.  Not wanting to scar child for …

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Provisional crochet cast on

When I taught myself to knit in the early 1980’s life was simple when a pattern said cast on you did just that, a simple cable cast on and off you went.  There was only one way to cast on, …

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