Shetland wool blog

Name this scarf-Winner will receive the yarns, printed pattern & a lovely Silver shawl pin !  Here is another picture update. You can see the silver tone shawl pin with a big black bead ! A combination of stitches & natural organic Shetland wool ♥ Something I'm working on, nowhere near finished as i want it to be at least 60'' inches long so please check back to see the finished scarf as it will help in naming the pattern design. (Read on for more info) I just love working with Natural wool. There is just something about it that makes me feel content, i would even say happy !  The nameless scarf/shawl consists of a stepped edge along the bottom in moss stitch, the top edge is straight with moss stitch, garter stitch, eyelets, cables, tubes, box stitch, stocking stitch....a mash up of textures that show up brilliantly in real wool. The earthy colours i'm using are white, fawn & Musket & all 100% Natural to the awesome coloured Shet...

                              The Fetlar Cabled Hat Happy New Year, a Happy Knitty New Year for 2016 REAL WOOL is So soft & squishy & has a massive amount of stretch to it.  I like to wear the cable design to the side. knit this sample hat from 100% Organic Shetland wool but the giveaway for this month with be a similar grey to this one but in our Shetland Tundra blend with 15% musk ox/qiviut-no pictures of the yarn as yet because its not even spun.....it's waiting for its turn on the machines. but i will update with picture's once I get the yarns plied. The pattern is circular knit on 4.5mm's. Knit with 2 strands of wool held together to make a sort of Aran weight knitting that i love. Not only is Aran knitting faster but it's so much warmer than a dk weight & so much more squishier when your knitting with REAL WOOL ! When i say REAL wool I am referring to the fact that Real wool ha...

Cables & Wool......with Qiviut. Today is a cheeky day off work day, a 'last of the summer wine day.. ...watching summer wine DVD's all day while knitting cables. This show really relaxes me & I find i knit much faster with the old guy's playing away in the back ground getting up to their tricks. The Yorkshire Dales is a beautiful setting too & that has a lot to do with me watching the show, rolling hills, sheep grazing...lambs bleating. I know November is cable month but to me they can be knit any month of the year. 2016 I plan on knitting only Yummy Cables with my Shetland wool; big & Chunky cabled hats, cabled neck warmers, cabled sweaters, cabled leg warmers & possibly a shawl or two. And here's a random picture of my cat Napoleon......he's huge, weights in at 19LB's   The ''Bressay'' headband above is knit wider than most cabled head bands. Measures 6.5'' inches wide so its a good size & will...

Hat, Hats, Hats....of the Month The winner of the red shawl from July giveaway Name drawn was ''InJuneau'' With Autumn just around the corner I'm knitting lots of hats & building musk ox knitwear stock for my Christmas sales that are approaching so fast ! I have a new Website www.absoluteshetland.websiteanimal.com  for all my Shetland yarns & knitwear so please check that out soon ! While browsing around the web I found a wonderful Youtuber who has really great Tutorial video's for all her hat patterns & her patterns so far have worked Beautifully with my light Worsted weight Shetland yarns ! Her name is Pleasesant seas- (will add links at the end of this post) Her instructions are very clear & so easy to understand, a very talented lady ! Patterns are included as a knit-along to the vid & in text form when you click on her links. One of my favourites is this one: Hat of the month for July 2014/the Little mermaid-Arie...

I am still waiting for Jody to contact me with her details....Jody won the Shetland Tundra yarn for the texting mitts.....still waiting jody, hope you are ok ! Been so busy have not had much time for blogging lately. The sheep are getting ready to lamb so I'm running between the mill & barn almost hourly ! Got to get the lambing pens ready for those cute little Bundles arriving.....any day now, all my girls have got bags(their making an udder) & before you know it they will be out on the pasture with lambs....if the snow EVER LEAVES !             This year we are increasing the turn out pasture & i can't wait to see them out on that Lush Grass, healthy & gaining weight. It really warms my heart to see animals having a great life ! This is the Shetland yarns we have made in the past week: Will be making more for the Frolic show in April, hope to see you there. No Give away this month for the shetland blog but i have a giv...

Name That Yarn This is it....our newest shetland yarn blend. A lovely soft squishy 3ply, sold in 50 gram skeins. Contains 85% shetland lambs wool-15% qiviut-Musk ox, at $9.95 a skein its not too pricey. the natural colour is a greyish brown looks quite similar to qiviut yarn in its natural state so would make a gorgeous looking, soft feeling, warm shawl, i blended long 4'' inch qiviut into this batch so we should have a lovely Halo with age....yum.....we can also dye the yarns to any of these shades below if greys not your thing ! if you dont know about qiviut this is where it comes from this hairy bugger ...... its soft warm down from the musk oxen who live close to the Arctic circle. Their fibre is 8 times warmer than sheep wool and extremely soft and lofty....its a  knitting Luxury that is well worth the investment ! to visit my musk ox blog go here: www.theqiviutblog.blogspot.com  every month we have a giveaway so do check it out ! .....and he...

Ah..... Soft wool socks.....Thank you little Shetlands ! My 1st giveaway. 100% shetalnd wool sock yarn in natural oatmeal-ish grey. its a 4ply 100 grams with about 440 yards so plenty to knit a pair of ladies adult socks...guy type work socks will require 2 skeins. The yarn retails at $22.00 each. Here's a pair of socks i knit with this yarn.... The socks are ribbed and very comfortable to wear all day long ! Pattern can be found here, designed by Kate Atherley and its free....  www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/basic-ribbed-socks so you can knit your own pair of socks just like mine....  the pattern is super easy and works really well with this yarn ! I just dyed a small batch of the natural sock yarn in this colour It's raven black and Purple ......love it. defo making a pair of socks with this colour ! I have more so if you enter and win you can have the choice of natural or handpainted ! To enter: In comments section tell us if you have ...