suppliers without mulesing

After deciding to avoid wool from sources that allowing mulesing , I have been investigating suppliers, and asking around.
The obvious first choice is to buy locally. Mulesing is not allowed in the UK, so if I buy locally produced and grown yarn – such as some available at coldharbour mill, that will be fine. And [...]

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merino and mulesing

I’m trying to clear some of my knitting projects so I can begin in some things for that winter festival thingy.
so one of the recent finishes is this merino scarf for himself.  We bought the rovings, and  he spun it, and I knitted it up using a Moebius pattern.  I’m assured its very snuggly.
I have [...]

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and now for something silly

Some of the people on ravelry who liked my pumpkin and heart wash cloths, have been dropping heavy hints for more patterns, so last night I came up with this.  Well it’s a bit of fun.
so the ravelry page is here, or you can go direct to the pattern.
 
I think i like creating new things [...]

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pink socks

I’ve done very little knitting or crochet lately, finding myself slicing beans for the freezer rather than holding a crochet hook or the like, but I did finish these socks a while back, and as they were a present for my sister-in-law, I went to the effort this time of trying to make them match.  [...]

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horse drawn barge

We were proper grockles today and went on a day trip out, to go on the horse drawn barge on the Grand Western Canal.
As it was fairly close, we also popped into coldharbour mill and ‘accidentally’ bought four more bags of thrums (lengths of scrap yarn). oops
The barge trip itself was really nice; relaxing and interesting,  [...]

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let’s get ready to scrumble

So, having first brandished a crochet hook only a week ago, and since learnt the heady ambitions of chain, slip and treble stitch, I guess it is time to move on to scrumbles.  A scrumble is, (among other things if you look it up!), a freeform combination of knitting and crocheting.  And this is why [...]

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black jumper

I’ve finished the home spun black jumper – how long has that been? more than a year… and of course, I’ve made it just in time for the warmer weather… it is very warm (and himself’s favourite colour is warm). To add a little interest, I put in the couple of stripes of brownish wool.  [...]

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avenue socks

The avenue socks are finished.. finally. I got bored with them – yarn that does interesting patterns, or stripes or mixing colours are much more fun, this was just like doing plain knitting.. on and on.
Actually I quite like some non-thinking knitting, I can chat, or watch TV or just mull things over, very soothing [...]

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