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Gild the Gingerbread
It’s been a frustrating few days the weather has been grim, grey and gloomy and my current knitting project isn’t working out. Knitted Christmas present production has slowed up. An afternoon of baking seemed a…
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Summer Dyeing
I’m trying out a new sock base, a GOTS certified, superwash organic merino. As I only had a few skeins I thought I’d try a few different dyes, all the skeins were pre-treated with 7%…
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A Slice of Paradise
Here’s another of our wool show cake tin standbys, this one definitely has a retro feel.I’m not entirely sure where this recipe came from it may have been from a copy of Woman’s Realm or…
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Decorated Sock Blockers
What to do in lockdown when the garden has been weeded to within an inch of its life and you’ve done as much housework as you consider necessary? Well over the last year we’ve accumulated…
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#virtualwonderwool
This weekend should be Wonderwool Wales and instead of heading for Builth Wells were both staying at home, not flattening the curve but jumping up and down on the pesky thing. We’re, however, joining in…
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Closed-Loop Cables – Increasing and Decreasing
I’ve always enjoyed knitting cables, I find them more intuitive than lace where I can get horribly lost, but when I designed the Heart’s End Hat pattern and Miss Havisham Mittens closed-loop cables were new…
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Blocking Your Knits and Crochet Too
You’ve spent weeks on a project, stayed up late to finish the last few rows and are excited to wear your heroic knitted or crocheted efforts. All the faff of blocking just seems one step…
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Fair Isle
I have three different types of knitting: a small portable project for travelling; knitting for work, we always need samples and there’s usually a time limit so these are the ones I work on most…
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Saucepan Cake
At shows we can often be found munching on a piece of cake and we never knowingly travel with out a least one cake in the tin. The perfect show cake is a substantial and…
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Seed collecting
I recently asked a question on Instagram about including free gifts with orders. If I send out an order of our hand dyed yarns I sometimes include a sample skein of yarn on a different…
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Washing, pH and the bonkersness of natural dyes
I was going to write about some of the projects I have on my needles but blocking a new shawl brought home the totally unexpected affect of washing liquids.
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Dyeing with Dock
Woollenmatters suggested a hashtag on Instagram to celebrate the humble dock as a dye plant. She had a lovely photo of four skeins ranging in colour from a rich yellow, through rust and tan and…
