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 these up. I LOVE how fast they trip off the needles!!
Hop on over to Facebook and share the finished socks on our group!!
So last week I gave the first half of the story! This week here is even more of the colourways I have been dyeing up ready for the yarn show!
There maybe more but I am at the point I can’t tell which I’ve uploaded and which I haven’t! 🤯
Sooooo these are getting released at Sweater Weather
Have you got your tickets!!!???!! I am super excited about meeting all sorts of knitting people!! Plus there are a few patterns going to be released for the show!!
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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 super slouchy beanie hat in it!
More recently I have been knitting up hats for a few people around here and using double knit yarn!
This one is knitted in our hilltop blend and it is rarely off the farmers head at the moment!
I have also been finding the boy’s hat strewn about the place…. this one was found out by the stream in the last cold snap frozen solid!!
It has now been thawed and washed!!
I have a number of hat designs out and up for sale in the Etsy shop, on Ravelry and on Lovecrafts including this Queen Bee hat
And…. I am working on a heap more designs!! All inspired by the natural world around here in Wales!
Here are some sneaky peeks!!
What are your favourite or go to hat patterns??
I still have a Baable on my to knit list!! Knit my mum one but never got round to mine!! 🤦♀️
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 made mitts and socks to go with!!
These have all been knitted using the Tyddyn Bryn Rustic with Alpaca range of DK wool and they are sooo wearable and WARM!!
I have also finally sorted the pattern out for the Jewels shawl (thank you my fabulous tech editor for reminding me!!)
This is knitted in a sock weight yarn with a silk content to give it maximum drape! The Tyddyn Bryn Smooshie bade is perfect for this!
All these patterns are available on Etsy, Ravelry and Loveknitting!!
Still on the go we have the Hazels shawl…. which I seem to be taking forever to write up let alone chart….
And the Hive shawl, which is nearly written (honest mum!! 😂😘) which need blocking final photos and a trip to the tech editor!!
I am also now working on a range of foraging and smallholding inspired patterns!! Mushrooms, more leaves, animals and even a hedgehog set of patterns which will be released to raise money for our local hoggie hogspital who nursed our beautiful Holly so well!!
I have knitted up some fabulous sweaters for the boys using our beautiful rustic with alpaca yarns!!
You can see which one is more impressed at the photo shoot for his new jumper!!
The yarn is a gorgeous blend of next to skin soft yarn!! And the colourways lend themselves beautifully to colour work patterns and these yoked sweaters, the Diplodocus sweater by Kate Oates is perfect for my two dinosaur enthusiasts!!
We have all sorts of colours sure to please your dino lovers too!!
He really does love it! Just didn’t want to take photos 😂🥴 Here are the colours we have available in the Etsy shop!
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!!!
So the crafting podcast is becoming weekly!! And on a Monday!!
This will be a weekly round up of the crafting activities I get up to!
This week’s round up can be found here
A little photo tour of the local (I love that it’s so close!!) Wool Museum!! 
Well a fortnight has vanished since my last post!!! Well more than a fortnight!!! That’s what new babies manage to do…. and toddlers… they eat time!!!
So…. now I’m a captive on the sofa with a post immunisation snuggler….
Where was I….
Wonderwool Purchases!!! Those of you that follow me over on Instagram will have seen these beauties posted there!! But look!!!
A good mix of mainly sock yarn and some spinning fluff for my breeds log cabin blanket!! Hurrah now I just need the time to knit them!!
In other news I was lucky enough to test knit the fabulous Peeky Cat socks, a colourwork double knit socks pattern by An Caitín Beag!! Wow these knit up quick!!! I used some deep stash Sweet Georgia merino DK yarn that I bought an age ago with plans for a top for me…. two children later….. and seriously limited knit time…. and it’s now becoming snuggly gorgeous cat socks!!!!
This pattern is amazing!! And she has set it up on Ravelry ready for release on the 25th!!
Other than that I’m plugging in with James’ socks….
And I’ve finally finished the reknit of my hazels shawl in RiverKnits in Indian Giant Squirrel!!
Now I need to block it and finish writing the pattern and get it off to the wonderful tech editor!! Any interested parties for the test knit?!
So that’s the crafty catch up… for the mo!!!
I’ll post again with some farm happenings!!
Apologies I was due to podcast this weekend….. but I haven’t a the energy and b with all the visitors I haven’t had a chance to do as much…..
However…..
Some sneaky peeks…… at an A J Aviator hat (pattern from Made by Jacks Mum) made for Young Sir for next winter me thinks…….. or a over hat as he seems to want to wear hats over his hoods at the moment!
Some spinning of Icelandic wool is still happening despite me not enjoying this fibre as much….. I have to go slow and really concentrate and even then I think it’s going to be horribly over spun and squirly…
Some BEAUTIFUL RiverKnits Splendiferous yarn for swatching and knitting up a new design!!!
Some skeined up pomegranate….
And some more sewing in the form of a commission for a very special young lady I used to teach!! (For those not in the know I spent 11-12 years as a full time special needs teacher where we used to live!) and this work is making some pretty but useable bibs for everyday use and for when she is eating!! I drafted up the pattern and made a couple of prototypes!! I’m quite pleased and am now cutting out and making the rest!!
Tyddyn Bryn 