knitting
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Shire Shenanigans: a new yarn club for 2026
Three Months • Three Colourways • Endless Cosy Adventures Welcome to the Shire Shenanigans Hobbit Sock Club, a three-month celebration of warmth, whimsy, and wool. Inspired by the gentle mischief and homely comforts of the Shire, this club is designed for makers who treasure slow living, soft socks, and stories woven into every stitch. Across…
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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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Knitting Is Art
Knitting is Art!!!! Were you ever told you weren’t good enough at art as a child? I was….
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Wool’s Journey: From Fleece to Finished Yarn
The story of wool is one of transformation, creativity, and tradition. Every skein of yarn tells a tale, beginning with a flock of sheep grazing on the hills and fields. In this post, we’ll explore the fascinating journey that wool takes from fleece to finished yarn, with a special focus on the sustainable practices we…
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What is the deal with Super wash Wool?
All our yarns are non super wash here at Tyddyn Bryn and there are good reasons behind this!! This post has been in progress for a little over a month now. I was unsure if I should post it, worried I would offend someone, but I’ve decided to go ahead and share, because it is something I strongly…
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Kitchener Stitch – How to in written form
An instructional post on how to do Kitchener stitch to graft the toes of socks.
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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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Wooly Wednesday and LOTS of dyeing
A sneaky peek at some of the yarns heading to the Farnham Maltings’ Sweater Weather show with me!
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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…