yarn
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Woolly Wednesday – Socks
Lets talk socks! Now I love sock weight yarns… I certainly dye up enough of them! and I love socks knitted out of them…. but I am finding with more limited knitting time these days with the two kids, a smallholding and a few businesses to sort that sock weight yarn socks just takes an…
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Sheepy Sunday, Wanda’s Story
Once a month I am going to tell you the story of our sheep and how we came to acquire them! First up is our first sheep on the smallholding, Wanda. She is a Beulah Speckled Face sheep, which you can see more in later photographs. Wanda turned up in the lane and on our…
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Wooly Wednesday
One of the most popular yarns in our online shop are our sock weight yarns. We have several bases, Smooshie (the silk, wool blend) Sock (superwash BFL) Stardust (the one with the sparkle) and now we have the Rustic sock! Rustic sock is spun up from our own sheep here on the smallholding at a…
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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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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…
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Ever wondered about our yarns??
I’ve been fiddling about putting together a little about the yarn video!! What do you all think!?! You can find our yarns over on Etsy They truly are a joy to work with!!! Watch this space for some new patterns releases coming soon!!!
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New yarn!!!!!
So tomorrow the Rustic range of yarns launch!! All hand dyed by me here at the smallholding and all the wool for the yarn is either locally sourced or homegrown!! From our own Sheep!!!!! So that’s gorgeous fleece from Wanda, Baabara, Wolfy and the three witches!!!! This time the wool has been blended with a…
