yarn
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The Benefits of Wool – Wearing
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the benefits of wearing and using wool! so I thought it might be a good idea to get some of these thoughts out into a blog post! Benefits of Wool: Natural, renewable fibre – Wool comes from sheep and is a renewable source of material! Using wool in…
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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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Sheep Sunday, and then we got a Ram!
How we got our Ram Lamb. He might not manage it this year, but hopefully we might get some lambs the following year!!
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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 we have done Wanda’s Story and Baarbara’s Story…. Here is the story of the three witches!! Basically we swapped three sheep for some large bales of haylage the summer after we had Wanda and Babs! Not a hugely exciting story, but we ended up with Garlick, Og and Weatherwax, which for the literary savvy…
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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…