The Bendigo Sheep Show was on last weekend. Wool growers, knitters and strange men with coffee vans all congregate at the Bendigo Showgrounds for three days of sheep and wool. Now it’s all over I can recouperate. I mean this literally because I managed to get very sick for the whole three days. Actually, Friday was…
hand dyed yarn
Granny Power
I’ve being doing all my colourfast testing on the hand dyed yarns this week. It all looks good and the colours aren’t running at all. One of the yarns I dyed was a wool, soy and cashmere blend. The colours came up beautifully but unfortunately each skein had at least one knot…
Hazel
I finished my lovely orange shawl and have been racking my brain about what to call it. I still have to type up the pattern, but it should have a name. I decided on “Hazel” because the fall of the lace pattern reminds me of catkins. It’s probably a bit hard to…