Busy Bees

Well, we had a great time in Dublin 2 weeks ago and met some more lovely knitters.

I mislaid my card from my camera so wasn't able to take any photos.

Then last Saturday we had the Wool Festival in St Abbs, which was a great success, We are planning a Wool Festival for next year, also by popular demand some knitting weekends and knitting days.
The Wool Festival would not have worked without the Woolfish Knitters and Stitches namely Dianne-who was working on her Proggy Rug and was helping out wherever she was needed, Linda - who had her own table filled with amazing things that I wanted to buy, Grace - who was serving coffee and scones in aid of the Vine Trust and knitting every spare minute she could, Romana - who has just moved house and just to get to St Abbs was great but did that stop her knitting -no- it was great to see her, Lucy - well, she had a table full of stash wool which apparently was just the tip of the iceberg, she did very well, will she set up in competition with me? we will have to wait and see, Irene- who was able to come even though she had visitors, and Maria who sat at the door and made everyone welcome, I tried to take her place but didn't do nearly as well, she is trying to get out of it next year but to replace her will be impossible.

Just before the Wool Festival we started renting the Old Smiddy for the winter and opened it that weekend with lots of help from Helen, Ryan my sister Alison who helped out at the last minute, and last but not least my right hand girl, my lovely daughter Trudi who was running about like a headless chicken during the time of the Wool Festival, how would I manage without her.

Now we/ Trudi are trying to get things together for the Knitting and Stitching Show in Harrogate, we have got wonderful cashmere and other wonderful wool.

I will try and get my camera put right and then I can take lots of photos of not only the show but also all the wonderful yarn.

Wonderful New Yarns

We have had a few boxes of wonderful yarns. here are a few photos:

Self Patterning Sock Yarn.

Felted Wool

We have had some of this felted yarn in before but these colours are just amazing, This yarn is Pure Merino Wool and is NOT spun, it is felted and is an amazing texture.

Fun Wool
This yarn is made up of 90% Wool 10% Acrylic and is such fun to knit with and can also be felted after you have knitted it,
Just a few new yarns we have just got in and I want to knit with them all.

Dorothy's Waistcoat

Well, at last I have finished Dorothy's Waistcoat and before I send it off thought I would take one or two (or three) photos with Trudi wearing it.

Dorothy I hope you like it.

Noro Blossom waistcoat

Wool free yarn

For those of you looking for a yarn without wool I have picked out these following 3 pictures

The above is Debbie Bliss Stella and is 60%silk 20%rayon 20%cotton and I think the colours are just lovely.The suggested needle size for this yarn is 5mm so to be treated as Aran, we do have pattern books for this yarn and the Araucania but why splash out on more books when you might have the perfect one in your own pattern collection.

If you would like to see one or two pictures of things knitted up in these lovely yarns i could post them here.

These 2 pictures show the hand dyed Araucania, it is 100%pima cotton and calls for 6mm needles so look out patterns that are a good Aran weight or slightly chunky.

Now this Da Masi does have wool in it, it is great for knitting scarves but you do need two or three balls. I have used it for knitting my dropped stitch scarf pattern, If anyone would like the pattern, please just ask.

It is just the best yarn to use though with an embellisher, you can see that it is like flat cut felt which, as you can imagine is ideal.

Hope this is of some help to those who were wanting to see colours and types of these particular yarns.

If I can be of any help in any way just ask. Thanks

Woolfish Festival

St ABBS WOOL FESTIVAL

remember remember the 8th of November
Put it in your diaries, 'wool festival' at St Abbs on the 8th of November.

If you would like to buy the finished product weather its socks or throws or cashmere shawls or wonderful hand woven silk or felt hand bags or corsages or knitted jewelry or.. or.. or.....

Or are interested in
workshops, demonstrations
or stocking up on luxurious yarns ie hand spun local wool, cashmere,other peoples stash, and other surprises.

Or why not take a stand yourself contact louise@woolfish.co.uk or phone 01890 771133

Dianne's Cardi

On Thursday, Dianne came to the knitting group wearing her wonderful cardi,What do you think?

Isn't it fantastic?