I think we bought the Cumbrian weather with us!

We had a few days away last weekend ( more about that later), on the way we stopped off a Beachy Head

We had a great day at the show, best weather for months. Plus the Woolclip won best stall at the show.

Cecilia Demonstrating spinning at the show

I put my new found weaving skills to good use and made my mother-in-law a scarf for her birthday. Cecilia spun the weft from some of Daniela’s fibre. It came out with a rather subtle shine due to the angelina.

I love my knitters loom: delivered by Richard to Ursula, who let me have it on Thursday. I managed to read the instructions and warp it up that night, ready for the spin-in at woolfest. It goes really fast and got over half way through my scarf at the spin-in. The next day I was showing it to everyone who stopped long enough for me to get it out of its bag, even Elizabeth Ashford got a look. I finished it off the next day and Cecilia showed by how to wash and dry it.

I think I was a little tense right after woolfest – you can see the very dark blue stripes where I was overzealously beating the weft. The wool is a lichen dyed warp from Cecilia, and the weft is BFL from The Natural Dye Studio

I’m already onto my next project, using some left over Noro that Cecilia had lying about. The only problem is its very clingy and I keep making little errors where the warp doesn’t move up or down properly.

We still haven’t thought of a suitable name for him, so if you have any goaty suggestions let us know.

Rachael and Felix dropped by for an afternoon of knitting, and they took away a couple of UFOs ( Unfinished Objects )

edited 16/4 to correct spelling of Rachael

It feels like its going to be very cold tonight, after a very warm day ( it got to 27 C in the poly tunnel), so I’m worried about the 2 remaining sweetcorn that survived the last frost.

Sweetcorn Insultated with Thermafleece

Cecilia has been busy knitting for our new nephew ( born last week).

Here are Cecilia, and two grandparents with Nicholas

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