Pages

Tuesday, 17 May 2016

KNITTERS' VISIT TO WILDERNESS

On Mother's Day we enjoyed the visit of 12 knitting friends from Pretoria.







The weather was beautiful and everybody enjoyed peaceful knitting time .


and yarn shopping:

My shelves before ...



and after....





FAIR ISLE BOXY finished in time for winter

My Yarn - hand-dyed






Friday, 1 April 2016

WILD WEAVING

Two new projects done on  my Knitters' Loom:

a waistcoat




                                                      



and a tunic:


 

                                        

FIBRE FUN WEEK

The Fibre Week in Van Reenen really was great fun. So much that we already agreed on the dates for next year:



For pictures please, go to our facebook page "Thread-Handed".


Friday, 12 February 2016

Fibre Fun Week

Glynis Brooke and I are organizing a FIBRE FUN WEEK in Van Reenen in the Drakensberg from
4th to 11th March.























These are the teachers:



When Doodler and Wingspan meet Noro

My Knitting Group "Knitters Unlimited" started a challenge - everybody is to knit their own version of Stephen West's "Doodler"



 I used several left overs of Noro sock yarns. The pink and turquoise are my own hand-dyed sock weight Merino/Linen mix.