Craftiness
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The Magical Meanings of Colours – Choosing Yarn with Intention
When we reach for a ball of yarn, it can feel like a simple act of instinct. Something about that shade of green, or the warmth of that soft gold, just calls to us. But what if our colour choices are more than aesthetic? What if the colours we knit with carry deeper meaning –…
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From Craft Table to Sheepfold: The Evolution of My Yarn Business
What began in 2007 as a creative outlet for my out-of-control making habits—selling handmades under the name Elliefants Delights at markets in Abergavenny, Cardiff, and Newport—has grown into a full-time, slow-living, wool-growing life. From writing my first knitting patterns in 2009 to dyeing yarn over a wood fire, buying a Welsh hill farm in 2014,…
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Double Vanilla Socks
A free Pattern for double knit vanilla socks! A little present from me to you! These knit up amazingly in both our Rustic with Alpaca and the Hilltop DK yarns! The Hilltop particularly is a fab hard wearing DK sock yarn which even manages to survive my husband’s hard wearing! I hope you enjoy knitting…
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Sheepy Sunday!
So last Month I told you some of Wanda’s story…. Up this month is Baabara! Baabara is a mule most likely, Welsh white… something along those lines! She is the white faced one in this picture and is the MOST suspicious sheep you will ever meet!! When they come up for feed in the field,…
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Wooly Wednesday – hats
Since moving to the smallholding I wear a lot of hats, literally and metaphorically!! I have a few favourites… My lattice hat, knitted up in a gorgeous sock weight alpaca yarn I bought on the Great London Yarn Crawl, my River Knits yarn hat, which is a gorgeous sock weight yarn and I knitted a…
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Learning to Knit
I often get a lot of comments as people see me knit out and about, or see the yarns, or my knitted socks….. “I wish I could knit” Well the honest truth is it takes practice, but its actually quite easy!! and realistically if you can knit, purl and can google what the other terminology…
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Wooly Wednesday
This Wednesday I am going to look at a pattern or two from another source! I am currently knitting up the fabulous Arboreal sweater by Jenn Steingass (this link is in Ravelry, I am afraid there are no other links I could find where she sells the patterns outside Ravelry) I am knitting it up…
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Looking for last minute gift knits or a Christmas Eve cast on??
I got you covered!!! I have been working on quite a few patterns recently!! Including these!! (With more coming in the new year) All inspired by my love of nature and living close to nature! We have the Queen Bee Hat and I am chuffed to bits with how this has turned out so I…
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Wooly Wednesday
A little post about some new sweaters I have knit up for the boys! The Diplodocus sweaters!
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Have you ever fancied dyeing your own yarn!?
Well I have developed a kit just for you!!! The kit contains: Two 100g skeins of our pure Llanwenog Aran weight yarn A professional grade dye specially blended for you, in two colours and you can choose the base colour, and either a tonal or contrasting colour! Gloves Stirrers A full set of instructions helping…