We had a great time over the week-end at Proper Woolly an event to promote natural wools and yarns held at the livestock market in Holsworthy, Devon. Very well organised, good footfall and plenty of interesting stalls to see.
I popped over to Blacker Yarns and had a chat with Lara. I had already made a bag using their Classic Aran in Olive using the Magic Butterfly Loom.
I am going to experiment with their Blacker Swan range, a joint venture between Blacker Yarns and Andrez and Ali Short who farm at Swan Inlet Farm on the Falkland Islands. I am going to match 3 colours from the range Buttonweed, Seagreen and Seafoam.
I had a good chat with Sharon Driscoll of Newhall Naturals. Sharon spins and sells her own creations. She went off with a Magic Butterfly Loom to experiment, so it will be interesting to see what she comes up with. I also met Lyn Soutar of Aneed2BeadnCraft, she runs lessons in knitting, crochet, Kumihimo and beading and thought the loom would make a nice addition to her repertoire!
The local WI groups and various Brownie and Guide troupes all expressed an interest in workshops and it was great to be invited by a whole range of groups from Brownies to seasoned spinning & weaving guilds to either give talks or workshops to their members, so a busy time ahead!
I came away with a skein of mohair from Julieann at Noteworthy Mohair, beautiful yarn hand spun from their own goats. She had a whole set of the Looms she was hoping they would keep the kids occupied! I am going to use the mohair on the loom and see what I come up with.
All in all, a great weekend, disappointed I didn’t get time to buy much yarn myself; still, there is Yarndale to look forward to!
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