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In The Loop conference September 2010

nobody@vox.com(mcknitty) — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:22:25 +0000

"In the Loop 2 is being planned and jointly organised with the Shetland Museum & Archives and will take place in Shetland 1st - 4th September 2010. We are hoping to capture the atmosphere and creativity of In the Loop 1 in this new location and h...

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Penny's pattern

nobody@vox.com(mcknitty) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:53:18 +0100

Student Penny has a gansey pattern and article in Yarn Forward (issue 18), it's in the shops now - rush out & buy it! Well done Penny! I really enjoyed the article too, it's well written & very interesting. I think you can be confident that they...

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Vauxhall City Farm spinners & dyers

nobody@vox.com(mcknitty) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:36:14 +0100

I met this lovely group of ladies just before I left. They run spinning & dyeing classes, and use fibre from the farm sheep (and llamas I think) and natural dyestuffs grown on the farm. This is a brilliant charity project and I hope to get over...

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My I Knit weekender favourite suppliers

nobody@vox.com(mcknitty) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:26:12 +0100

The Fibre Factory, lovely yarns handspun and dyed by Julie Draper. The (green) tencel was so gorgeous. She was really nice & just loves spinning & dyeing. Her prices were reasonable for such a work intensive product. The Tencel handspun was pa...

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Indigo dyeing

nobody@vox.com(mcknitty) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:22:42 +0100

Had a great time indigo dyeing at Sandra's on Thursday. It's so exciting to watch the unpromising greeny-yellow colour turn magically to a glorious blue as it hits the air & oxygen floods in. If you want to have a go Fibrecrafts sell kits. R...

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Alix spinning on the 'Gormley plinth' in Trafalgar Square

nobody@vox.com(mcknitty) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:08:36 +0100

From 10pm - 11pm GMT Alix will be spinning, high up on the plinth in Trafalgar Square. Below is a link to watch this live and another tells you why she wanted to do it. For those of you who haven’t heard about it, it is a work of public perform...

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Sue on Coriandr

nobody@vox.com(mcknitty) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:52:32 +0100

"We got to be featured seller for this week on Coriandr, the British equivalent of Etsy - front page and everything...!" Well done Sue & Emily! See it here http://blog.coriandr.com/2009/06/22/featured-seller-%E2%80%93-22062009/

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Garbled advert in Slip Knot

nobody@vox.com(mcknitty) — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:06:37 +0100

Thank you to those of you who brought to my attention that the current edition of Slip Knot magazine (the Knit & Crochet Guild) has a large advertisment for my courses containing many typos and spelling mistakes.... I had cancelled my advertismen...

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Paper making

nobody@vox.com(mcknitty) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:21:31 +0100

I thought I'd show you a few of the paper samples I made on Saturday. I didn't want to just make sheets of plain paper (can buy those!) but some embossed sheets exploring the ideas of random textured marks in sand that I can put in my sand marks ...

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On the beach

nobody@vox.com(mcknitty) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:58:36 +0100

Decided it was such a lovely morning that I must go for a beach walk before sitting at the computer all day. So pleased I did, the earth movers (lots of work building groynes this winter) were putting the sand back where it belongs and the tracks...

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