Saturday, February 3 2018
Saturday, February 3 2018. Lochinver Post Office
My last blog entry led to a few more questions in my Ravelry group, so I thought I'd do a wee follow up here too.One of the points I made in my last entry raised a lot of interest on Ravelry, and that was the point that the dye bath exhausts when dyeing, and all the colour goes into the yarn, […]
Wednesday, March 15 2017
Wednesday, March 15 2017. Mungo
What an absolutely wonderful weekend! I cannot begin to explain how much fun it was at Edinburgh Yarn Festival this year. I can hardly believe it is all over. I spent most of winter dyeing yarn for the event, and despite taking nearly 1/4 more stock than I took with me last year I was still […]
Thursday, January 19 2017
Thursday, January 19 2017. Archeology
One of the pleasures of self employment is that you're not tied to regimented hours of 9 to 5 Monday to Friday, which means you have to face the shops on a Saturday or Sunday when most of the rest of the working population are doing their shopping. So on Tuesday I declared we were risking scurvy […]
Monday, November 21 2016
Monday, November 21 2016. Dogs
I doubt anyone could deny that 2016 has thrown some real stinkers at the world. It has been quite a year. Sometimes we just need to step back, take a deep breath, and decide what we want to focus on. Do we want to constantly seek out the negative or do we want to try and find something, albeit […]
Wednesday, September 21 2016
Wednesday, September 21 2016. Archeology
[caption id="attachment_8764" align="aligncenter" width="800"] © 2016 Woolly Wormhead[/caption]I have always been a huge admirer of Woolly Wormhead's work. She is a true architect when it comes to hat design. I was thrilled when she told me she'd included one of my […]
Monday, February 29 2016
Monday, February 29 2016. Knitting
Introducing ...........[caption id="attachment_8602" align="aligncenter" width="669"] Dunedin, designed by Lucy Hague Photography by Katie Blair […]
Thursday, February 25 2016
Thursday, February 25 2016. Knitting
Back in August last year I attended In the Loop, a conference in Glasgow. Besides enjoying the conference itself, it was also lovely to catch up with some friends of mine from the knitting world, including Karie Westermann, a Danish born designer now living in Glasgow.We had, for a while, been […]
Sunday, December 13 2015
Sunday, December 13 2015. Scotland
Canisp - a visiting yarn in the Ripples Crafts fold.[caption id="attachment_8544" align="aligncenter" width="772"] Fresh Grass[/caption]Canisp is a 4ply yarn, and the fibre content is 70% Merino, 20% Silk and 10% Cashmere and comes in a 100g hank. Each hank contains […]
Sunday, April 19 2015
Sunday, April 19 2015. Archeology
[caption id="attachment_8197" align="aligncenter" width="532"] Ripe Rowan Berry[/caption]I'm very happy to introduce you to a new yarn that is joining the Ripples Crafts portfolio of yarns. I have called this yarn Suilven (pronounced "Sool-vin") after the […]
