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I over-dyed this wool from T. The greens are so brilliant, I almost don't want to use them. I just want to keep looking at them stacked up with their edges all whispy...
Wool Packs, Kinder Scout, Peak District, UK
© 2022 Paul Newcombe. Don't use without permission
As often happens, there was some light on the way up Crowden Clough that disappeared just before I got to the top. But there were some interesting conditions as the hill fog rolled in.
From about 7am there were about 30 Jackdaws making such a noise flying over & around my house. According to my neighbour he could see them trying to chase off a Sparrowhawk that had taken one of the "family". The noise eventually stopped & nearly 2 hours later my husband noticed the Sparrowhawk in our garden devouring the bird.
We could only take photos through the window as we did not wish to scare it away & as we clicked it kept turning its head towards the house looking for the source of the noise. It stayed about 30 mins & then flew off with the remains of breakfast in its claws.
Statistics
Length: 33cm
Wingspan: 62cm
Weight: 150-260g
Average lifespan: 4 years
Sorry for all of you who may have already viewed several photos taken by Richard, he's just faster at editing or could it be more spare time.😉
72 yards of thick & thin brown baby alpaca goodness with puffy blobs of border leciester locks. Made from Loop batts!!!
One of the few corners of Warwick that escaped the Great Fire of Warwick of 1694.
Thomas Oken's House.
Thomas Oken (d.1573) came from a humble family, but became the richest man in Warwick, making his fortune dealing in wool and woven fabrics. He lived during the reigns of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I, during a period of great religious change and social upheaval.
Oken was married but died childless, and left his personal fortune to the town. His will arranged – amongst other things – for the payment of the salary of the schoolmaster, annual payments to ‘the poor’, the paving of certain streets, the repairing of the bridge, the wages of the herdsmen and the beadle, the repairing of the wells and the provision of a number of almshouses. The Thomas Oken Charity is still in existence today – and still owns this building, the rent for which goes towards good causes for the benefit of Warwick people.
In his will, Thomas Oken also provided for the spending of £1 annually on a feast, preceded by a service at St. Mary’s. The annual feast still goes on to this day, during which a toast is always given to Thomas Oken’s memory!
a hot pink core with raspberry colored mohair locks spun around. plied with a cotton thread - 85 yards
Her tutorials are super packed with useful tips and instruction on this week's topic
Dying wool with flowers.
this week. Dying wool yellow using Dandelion, Gorse & Daffodil.
My contribution? the photo.
such wooly goodness, in patterns and textures I can rarely find here, where it never gets quite so cold. I can't wait to work with this wool and see what it can become. Thanks T
Pics of the ordinary.
We are doing a phone camera session at our Photography Club next week, so I thought it time to see what it would do whilst sitting on the sofa.
Think Tracey Emin
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...a ball of wool, and is now another beanie. I do so love them.
Still playing with the camera. Ordered a book on how to get the most out of it yadyada. What I really lack is ideas!
I purchased this wool felt from One of the Flock on Etsy. It's so yummy and I love the colours and texture so much that I purchased more right after I received it in the mail!
The Wool Packs, Kinder Scout, Peak District, UK
© 2014 Paul Newcombe. Don't use without permission
Taking a break from sunlight on snow, here's photo taken the day after the recent heavy snowfall. It felt really special to visit the Wool Pack on Kinder Scout in these conditions. And no footprints. Lucky me.
A three image stitch.
(43/365) A wool runner from Navajo country (northern Arizona and New Mexico). This one is an inexpensive machine woven rug, but hand woven ones can go for many hundreds (or thousands for larger ones) of dollars. For 119 pictures in 2019 #100, "Stripes".
I don't know if the kittens will ever let me knit in the house again, so who knows if these ever get finished. This is a pretty sad amount of knitting for almost a whole month...
This yarn is part of a series of new experiments I'm performing with color in spinning. This yarn was spun from merino roving that was handpainted in a series of colors that never repeat. I split the roving down the center and spun two nearly identical skeins - they both will self-stripe in the same color sequence, with no repeats. Perfect if you want to make a pair of something - like fingerless gloves/armwarmers or legwarmers - or if you want to make one large piece, like a scarf, you can knit/crochet in different ways to produce different color effects. You could alternate one row from each skein, or you could knit from one end of the first skein and then the opposite end of the second skein, for a mirror effect.
The colors in this yarn are (in the order they occur): pale blue, teal/green, yellow, peach, purple, pink, brown, and mustard/olive.
(I'm so lazy. I cut & pasted this from my etsy shop description. Which is why it sounds like I'm trying to sell it!)
Another image from my afternoon at the Watkin's Mill. It's amazing to think about what went into the entire process of weaving wool and how many laborers it took. As always a big thank you for taking the time to view my pictures and commenting when you deem it so.
I've been knitting up my stash of leftover or single skein wooly wools into 9" squares for a blanket for my living room couch.
I'm about half way through, and am getting near the end of my yarn. I have another square's worth of orange, 2 or 3 more brown squares, and 4 or 5 squares worth of natural yarn that I'll probably dye before using.
So far, this pile includes:
Peace Fleece
Barlett Yarn
Harrisville Highland
Zeilinger's
Sweet Grass Wool 2-ply (targhee)
Mystery tweed
Does anyone have any wooly wool leftovers that they wouldn't mind sharing? 25-35 grams makes a square, depending on weight. (Harrisville only took 25 grams, heaviest aran weight Z-wool was 35 grams).