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Tag Archives: design
Of clumsiness, Sock Club, VAT, yarn festival and stash management
This blog post should have been written and posted last night. However, my clumsiness and myself have spilled a full cup of coffee over the keyboard of my (up and running) laptop yesterday evening. Intense cleaning, drying of said laptop … Continue reading
Is it really 2015?
Happy New Year! How nice to see so many of you joining The Auld Woolly Alliance for another year. The last 12 months brought a few new friends to our pages. Welcome on board everyone and thank you, from both … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Knitting, Ravelry, Review, Uncategorized, Workshop
Tagged brioche, design, knitting, photography, Ravelry, workshops
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Allow us to introduce….. Maylin, of Tri’Coterie Designs
The Woolly Alliance has been full of Christmas spirit recently, mainly due to our involvement in the Indie Designers Gift-a-long 2014. Aurelie has been very busy behind the scenes too………and I have been hiding. (such is my nature!) Today I … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Crochet, Design, Festive, France, General, Gift, Irish traditions, Knit-Along, Knitting, Ravelry, Review, Spinning, Toy, Uncategorized, Yarn
Tagged Christmas, design, fantasy, Gift-a-Long, halloween project, handspun, indie dyer, knitting, Ravelry, sheep, spinning, Wee Black Faced Sheep, yarn club, yurt
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Indie Design Gift-Along: Chevrons everywhere
(Following up on last “Indie Design Gift-Along”-focused post… here is another post with lots of pretty pictures…) Chevrons, I Love Chevrons! The other day, as I was browsing patterns from participating designers, I kept on day-dreaming of knitting all these … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Gift, Knit-Along, Knitting
Tagged Chevrons, colourwork, design, Gift-a-Long, knitting
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The Woodcarving
In my last post, I teased you a little with a “moody” picture of a lonely mitten. Now, I am delighted to share with you a few photos full of sunshine of a colourful pair of mittens. And I must … Continue reading
Posted in British Yarn, Design, Knitting
Tagged Castle Fraser, colourwork, design, knitting, mittens, Scottish yarn, stranded, Woodcarving
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Deck your pins with skeins of yarn…..
….And join us in the 2014 Indie Designers Gift-a-Long! Disclaimer: some of the links in this blog post will bring you to the right page only if you’re already logged in to your Ravelry account. Regular readers may remember Aurelie’s … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Community, Crochet, Design, Festive, Gift, Knit-Along, Knitting, Ravelry, Sale, The Auld Woolly Alliance Group, Toy
Tagged Christmas, Christmas Stocking, Crochet-a-Long, design, gift, Gift-a-Long, knitting, love, Ravelry, toy
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Great British Sock Yarn, Inventors and Scientists
In my previous post, I teased you gently about a few exciting things coming up shortly… Well, one of them has just gone public, so I can unveil it! But first, I would like to tell you about someone … Continue reading
Posted in British Yarn, Design, Knitting, Socks
Tagged design, Great British Inventors and Scientists, knitting, sock club, sock yarn, socks, The Knitting Goddess, yarn club
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Back from Ballater
It has been such a long time since my last post that I feel my head drooping in shame, life has been very busy lately but thankfully Aurelie has been kept the blog interesting and up to date in my … Continue reading
Playing with colours
Today, I would like to share a little of my design process with you. I am currently finalizing the third pattern in the collection inspired by Castle Fraser, and I thought you might want a sneak peek… Remember the gorgeous … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Knitting
Tagged Castle Fraser, colourwork, design, Edinburgh Yarn Festival, knitting, Scottish yarn
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Chicken Wire and (French?) Onion Soup
I had plans for an interesting post about spinning for sock yarn, or so I thought. But this past week has been rather busy, and my “me-time”, which is supposed to be just a few hours for (almost) myself on … Continue reading
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