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| earthyvirgo |
uhh-ohh, beginnings of a wool stash?On Friday, Mochyn took me to the factory shop of Colinette yarns in Llanfair Caereinion
I was extremely restrained and only came away with a small purchase but WOW, this is wool heaven. An aladdin's cave of colours, textures, patterns, and the choice is astonishing. All weekend I have been peeping at, and touching my new wool. I'm not sure what it will become yet but it's beautiful just in its raw state, so I may just adore it for a while. EV |
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| gardening-girl |
You lucky person, I love colinnette wool.
Lovely colours! All my family have hats knitted in the chunky, think its called point 5 . I can only buy on line down here, local supplier has shut down. |
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| colour it green |
Re: uhh-ohh, beginnings of a wool stash?
ah yes.. the addtion begins. buying yarn for no purpose.. then enjoying just *having* it... |
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| Mutton |
Don't knit - but I'm the same with bolts of cloth. Especially end of roll at a good price. | ||||||
| Frewen Feltmaker |
Welcome to the club EV 
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| lottie |
I'm just off to look at the map to see where llanfair is 
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| wellington womble |
Fortunately, a very, very long way from here! | ||||||
| Frewen Feltmaker |
Not necessarily - I live in Suffolk bit have a fibre stash in Buckinghamshire - you may find that you have an unbought stash in Llanfair 
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| Badger |
sadly/fortunately there is very little decent yarn available here, so my stash is limited
however, I have been given a wonderful stash of Herdwick and Jacob yarns, still trying to work out what to use them for |
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| Frewen Feltmaker |
The last Herdwick I had was very kempy (hairy) so was really best used for texture - the Jacob felted well in the washing machine 
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| gil |
By coincidence, I'm sitting here knitting swatches with Herdwick wool to see what needles to use.
@ Badger or Frewen : Is your herdwick yarn the kind with two strands twisted together that looks as though it might knit on 5.5mm needles ? |
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| earthyvirgo |
It's worth the drive wherever you are
And if you're into garden centres, the amazing 'pair' Dingle and Derwen are within spitting distance at Guilesfield. Wool and plants, ahhhhh .... EV |
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| Frewen Feltmaker |
@ Gil - mine was raw unspun
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| wellington womble |
That's what the internet's for! |
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| gil |
The internet seems to be for fruitlessly searching for a decent, do-able knitting pattern to go with yarn and needles. I've wasted hours looking for an Aran jumper pattern that I like and could knit, and that is free. 
Unfortunately my knitting skills are not up to working out how to knit a nice pattern but on different size needles, or how to work out what the pattern is from a photo. Grrrrr ! I found one I liked, but it's not free, and it doesn't match my yarn's needle size reqiurements |
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| earthyvirgo |
Gil, are you in a desperate rush for a pattern?. I'm pretty sure my Mum has one/some Aran jumper ones. EV |
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| gil |
Thank you for the offer, EV !
The yarn's been in my cupboard for about eight years so no huge rush, really !
However, I think I'm getting there This was the one I particularly liked. ETA : linky doesn't work directly, it's pattern 209 in mens sweaters section I'm now trying a swatch in the needle sizes suggested for that yarn, and I have a handknit sweater here that looks as though it may have been knitted on the same size needles too. Now if I can reverse enginner the sweater I have in the light of the pattern, there may be some hope yet..... |
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| sally_in_wales |
gil, post a pic of the sweater you like and we can help reverse engineer it I'm sure
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| mochyn |
Sorry. All my fault.
It's about 7 miles south of me: west of Welshpool. So anyone coming should contact me first! It's open Monday to Friday, I think, NOT Saturdays or Sundays... |
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| Frewen Feltmaker |
you don't sound very contrite 
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| Midland Spinner |
What size needles are you using & what tension are you getting?
If you tell us that we might be able to find you something suitable among our collective Pattern stashes. |
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| mochyn |
I'm not very good at contrition. And EV seems to be blaming me for an awful lot today. |
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| earthyvirgo |
No, no, please don't see it like that Mochyn. I was in wool heaven on Friday. EV |
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| mochyn |
I noticed!
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| gil |
This was the link to a pic of the pattern I saw and liked. |
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| judith |
Love those '80s hair-dos.
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| mochyn |
So is it just a matter of tension that's stopping you from using that patterm Gil? | ||||||
| alison |
I get the home page, not the actual sweater. |
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| gil |
Alison, it's in home page - patterns section - mens - No. 209
Mochyn - one reason, yes. Pattern says needles 3.25 and 4.5, but the wool I was wanting to knit it in uses needles 3 and 4. How much difference would it make ? Obviously the jumper would turn out smaller on smaller needles. So would I need to knit the next size up, or would that end up far too big ? What I could do is use the handknit [not by me !!] I've got as a basis for counting rows/stitches, which I think used the same size needles as the wool I've got, and has a similar style of an aran centre panel with plainer sides, and work out the Aran section for the centre of the pattern on the web, and fit that into the plain bits. If that makes any sense. Now i'm confused. |
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| mochyn |
Try making it in the next size up. That should do it! | ||||||
| gil |
Thanks, mochyn !
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| toggle |
That isn't much of a difference, sometimes small differences in gauge/needle size can be a matter of personal preference in the fabric. see what you can do, swatch to get the gauge that is in the pattern and see how you likie the fabric. |
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| Dogwalker |
Mochyn, you'd better keep that place secret from me for a bit longer else I won't be so disciplined about not unpacking my craft stuff.
I could do with curtain fabric soon though, where's good locally for that. Are you coming to any of the Real Colour Show talks/workshops next week. |
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| judith |
There's a really nice fabric shop in Machynlleth. And we haven't had a day out in Mach for a while..... |
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| Dogwalker |
Sometime the beginning of November then.
Must stop reading this forum NOW and do what I'm supposed to be doing on this computer!! |
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| mochyn |
DW: I can't make any of the workshops. Complete bummer: I'd love to, but the next few weeks are horrendously busy.
BUT: an outing to Mach - hmmm... |