knitting
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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, even more yarn dyeing
Even more dyeing and more yarns coming with me to Sweater Weather in Farnham later this week! Have you got your tickets?
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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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Sheep Sunday – four more!!
How the next sheep were acquired. Meet the four sheep we got back in December 2020. More of the girls and boys that produce our fabulous yarns!
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Sheepy Sunday
So after the 3 witches we acquired Wolfie! She is a welsh white type sheep and was a bottle lamb that one of my neighbour’s wives acquired to raise. We acquired her when she had transitioned into the neighbour’s garden and was spending more time munching flower beds and pooping on the front doorstep than…
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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…
