Knitting and Crochet
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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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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 – 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…