From Boing Boing I love these official, licensed lumpy Super Mario cardigans, though at $400+ a pop, I probably won’t be wearing one this winter. Please continue reading HERE.
Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category
I’m waiting for my first kool-aid dyeing experiment to dry, and to be honest I feel a bit guilty about it. The Nude Ewe motto is ‘Pure. British. Wool. Just the way the sheep made it’. And I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen any apple green sheep around Bedfordshire (although if there were any I [ Read More ]
Categories: Uncategorized
Hmmm. This is going to be tougher than I thought! I’ve just been assigned my ‘swapee’, the blogger I’m to send my parcel to. And it turns out we’re very different people. My mum has a policy of not giving a gift that she herself doesn’t like. Which to be honest rarely served me well: the [ Read More ]
Categories: Uncategorized
With a bit of trepidation but lots of excitement The Nude Ewe is heading to the marketplace at UK Knit Camp in Stirling. The event has been fraught with organisational troubles. They’ve all been resolved but there are still quite a few upset knitters. I can only hope that they decide to console themselves by [ Read More ]
Categories: Uncategorized
I’ve just signed up for my first fibre swap. I’ll be paired up with someone else (hopefully somewhere outside the UK!) and we’ll exchange a series of fibre-related gifts. The ‘swappers’ are all bloggers, and are in The Blog Hub group on Ravelry. We’ll each receive (and send) 7 gifts, one to be opened each [ Read More ]
Categories: Uncategorized
A few months ago I was contacted by a gal from Leipzig. She was interested in British sheep breeds, and what the differences were like among the various fleeces. Since then we’ve started a bit of a swap. I sent some Manx Loaghtan and Shetland samples, and in return I got a couple lovely bits [ Read More ]
Categories: Uncategorized
Unfortunately I’m committed. I’ve already started knitting the jumper so I’ve got to persevere. The fleece in question is a Ryeland x Wensleydale. Which in theory sounds lovely: all the softness and crimp of the Wensleydale with the more manageable Ryeland staple length. And it is, when it’s undergone a laborious, tedious and lengthy series [ Read More ]
Categories: Uncategorized
Note to self: never man a Woolfest stall alone. On Friday event volunteer and fellow Guild of Long Draw Spinners member Lea took over for 15 minutes so I could at least have a tea and a pee. The nice ladies next door at Cumbrian Wool kindly changed a tenner when I realised I hadn’t [ Read More ]
Categories: Uncategorized
Not sure I’d want to wear this! A lovely piece that must have been incredibly difficult to make. From O-Space Krysta Olson investigates her attraction to vulnerability, intimacy, and sadness through video, animation, photography and painting. Playing with levels of closeness she creates situations of awkward tension, pushing the viewer as well as herself to [ Read More ]
Categories: Uncategorized
From Natural England The green-winged orchid is one of a group of threatened plants dependent on infertile or nutrient poor grasslands. Once widespread, it has declined steadily over the last 60 years due to agricultural improvement of its grassland habitat. Please continue reading HERE.
Categories: Uncategorized
