Milo ~ bigger sizes
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4y ago
When the Milo pattern was first published in 2009, my wee boy modelling it was just six months old and my daughter was four. I envisaged it very much as a baby and toddler garment and never really foresaw that knitters would want to knit it for older children. But they did. Over the years I've received numerous requests for larger sizes. Last year, I graded those larger sizes, had them tech-edited and had a number of knitters carry out a preview knit of those sizes. They've sat there since then but today will be added to the pattern finally. There's been one design element that's played ..read more
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Vicariously
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4y ago
Long time, no blog. A whole year in fact. yikes. It's a fresh new year, however, and with a fresh new year comes a renewed effort to blog. While I was writing my newsletter today, I struggled with words. I struggled to find the flow of language. For me, someone who has grown up writing, who loves to write; this was a really disconcerting experience.  It was like trying to swim after a month out of the pool; your stroke is off, you can't find your rhythm and it feels laborious. It's no longer enjoyable. When we don't swim we loose the rhythm because we're out of practise, but for some re ..read more
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Is this year any different?
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4y ago
At the start of every new year I write up my goals for the year, breaking them down into different categories and writing an action plan (generally just a couple of steps) for how I aim to achieve these goals.  Invariably, somewhere in that list is the goal 'Blog more'. Like most goals, I start the year with good intentions but it hasn't lasted. I don't blog more. Im not quite sure why it doesn't happen. I enjoy writing, I love to share ideas and techniques and I often bemoan that the limited interface of platforms like Instagram and Facebook doesn't allow for in-depth learning or real d ..read more
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SpinNING a YARN ~                         GREAT OCEAN ROAD WOOLLEN mill
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4y ago
Do you know what the best type of friends a yarnie nerd can have? Friends that let you join them in a spinning mill when they're creating a yarn!   When my good friend Briony from byBriony told me she had some top that she wanted to get spun into yarn at a local mill I begged her to let me tag along; after all, this is the stuff I geek out over. I gave her my best puppy dog face and luckily, she didn't take a lot of convincing and a couple of weeks ago we found ourselves stepping into the daily life of Nick and Isabel Renters from Great Ocean Road Woollen Mill. Nick and Isabel run a Western ..read more
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Australian Yarn: ALive & Kicking
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4y ago
Today I thought I would write about the story of Australian yarn in the 21st century. It's a story I've been wanting to write about for a while because it's a really good story; a story of really good people and good wool and good community. Unfortunately, it's a story that we don't often hear. The doomsayers seem to have a louder voice; and unfortunately their voice, which seems to project straight from the 1990s, is full of misinformation.  Much of the stories of doom and gloom that plague the yarn industry hark back to last century. They are the stories of the last generation of the ..read more
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The curse of the garter hem flip
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4y ago
This afternoon when I opened my emails there was a query about an issue that is probably quite familiar to many knitters, and because it is something so familiar I thought, "Ha, that's probably something I should share with blog readers or add to my list of Frequently Asked Questions." The email read like this: "Hi, I just finished my 2nd Gidday. It seems I always have a problem with the bottom laying flat and mine curls up between the stockinette and the garter rows. Do you have any suggestion besides making the garter section longer? It is fine on the sleeves, just does it around the ..read more
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Oolong
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4y ago
Late last year I received a really exciting wee package from the lovely Nan Bray of White Gum Wool. It was a sample of her soon-to-be released new yarn that she had concocted with Rebecca from Augustbird and there was so much about this yarn that excited me and ticked all the boxes. It was a 5ply/sport weight constructed with 3 plies and a blend of her beautiful merino and silk. I swatched my precious little ball of yarn and all stereotypes aside, honestly did squeal a little with pure delight.  Since that precious parcel, Nan has released her 5ply Silk/Merino to the wild in two colours ..read more
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MILO MAY MAJOR SPONSOR: Interview with Briony from
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4y ago
I'm really excited to have a new major sponsor on board this year for Milo May. I've known Briony online for quite a few years and have watched her dyeing journey with great interest. Last year I had the pleasure of meeting Briony in real life at Knit August Nights, a fabulous bespoke Knitters Retreat in Napier, New Zealand. As two of the only Aussies there, we had a glorious time chuckling about the Kiwis' ridiculous names for some items and their funny pronunciations (as they did about Australians and our strange lexicon) Northern ..read more
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WARM: - exploring why the earth is warming
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4y ago
Last month I spent a morning at the Art Gallery of Ballarat at a launch for a project that I've been working on for quite some time with a wonderful bunch of people. The project is WARM and it explores a topic close to my heart; climate change. Created by SEAM Inc. (Sustainable Environment Arts Movement), the idea for WARM was inspired by a sheep farmer, Frank, who had just sold the farm that had been in his family for five generations. Like many farmers, Frank had personally witnessed the effects of climate change on the land. He spoke of drier soil, less predictable weather, changing seaso ..read more
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Small circumference knitting
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4y ago
From top: teeny circulars, two circulars, magic loop and double pointed needles ​For devotees of seamless and circular knitting, it is inevitable that at some stage you're going to come across the term small circumference knitting. Small circumference knitting is all about how you knit those narrower pieces of circular knitting, like sleeves, socks or even mitts and gloves without having to worry about seaming at the end, because we all like to avoid seams as much as possible, right? So what I thought I'd do in this post is look at the different options for small circumference knitting ..read more
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