We still haven’t found a proper name for him…

Anyway here is a video of him bouncing round the yard. He’s looking a bit pink today – he’s be rolling in the johnby mud.

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.

I thought I would bake some mini spiced apple cakes to hand out at woolfest

The only problem is people keep quality testing them, so who knows how many I’ll have left by woolfest! Haven’t they heard of non destructive testing???