This is a very quick update to a very old post. Jamiesons of Shetland Mill, Sandness, is not open to the public. You can find that information very clearly on all their online places. Visit their website or shop in Lerwick for all their wonderful woolly wares. My original blog post – from 9 years ago – seemed to be causing some people confusion who took trips to the mill without doing any other research. This resulted in them giving Mill staff a lot of bother. I cannot take responsibility for the faulty reading of these people, or their dreadful behaviour, but I am truly sorry to Jamiesons for ..read more

Tabular Pattern:   Tabular Sweater by Maja Möller From Pom Pom Quarterly 23, Vivid Winter 2017 Wool:   Jamieson & Smith Jumper-weight MC 203 (light grey); CC1: 134 (aubergine); CC2: FC7 (salmon/orange marl) CC3: FC50 (light pink Purple mix   Needle: 3mm Size made: 4 / 45″ (2 inches postive ease at chest)     Okay, friends, buckle in. This is a tale of a knit that took a long time, that I’m unsure if I like, but I have a lot of things to say about it! I have wanted to knit this since Pom Pom 23 dropped on my mat back in winte ..read more

Peerie Leaves Pattern:  (No Rav links) Peerie Leaves Sweater, by Donna Smith From Shetland Wool Week Annual 2020, not yet available as a single pattern:  Donna Smith website link Wool:   Tuath DK from Uist Wool, a blend of North Atlantic sheep breed wools   Needle: 4.5mm Size made:  3 = finished chest size 46.75 “     Notes: Well, there are late posts and there are late posts! I finished this sweater on the 3rd of April (today is 5th of November!). As soon as I got the Shetland Wool Week Annual last year, I knew that I would be making th ..read more

Peerie Leaves Pattern:  (No Rav links) Peerie Leaves Sweater, by Donna Smith From Shetland Wool Week Annual 2020, not yet available as a single pattern:  Donna Smith website link Wool:   Tuath DK from Uist Wool, a blend of North Atlantic sheep breed wools   Needle: 4.5mm Size made:  3 = finished chest size 46.75 “     Notes: Well, there are late posts and there are late posts! I finished this sweater on the 3rd of April (today is 5th of November!). As soon as I got the Shetland Wool Week Annual last year, I knew that I would be making th ..read more

Crofter's Smock Pattern:  (No Rav links) Crofter’s Smock by Gudrun Johnston Wool:  Jacob in Rainforest by Bluebell Yarns Needle: 5mm Size made: 44.5 “   Price: $8 Notes: This is a very belated My Makes post to tell you about the divine Crofter’s Smock Sweater, by Gudrun Johnston! When I saw Gudrun post on Instagram that she was looking for test knitters, I swithered – did I have yarn in stash (I am trying so hard!); did I have enough? What size should I go for? When I went back to apply – The test was full!!!  Oh, well – tra la la – you win some ..read more

https://woolwork.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ep-130.mp3 This is not going to be a usual kind of podcast, I guess. At the end of this month, I will have to stop using R@velry due to the changes they have made and the issues I – and many others – suffer as a result. After 12 years; 163 projects (which were logged on there, there were more!) ; 708 faves; 549 library patterns; 512 friends and 3776 posts and countless, insurmountable-to-encapsulate good encounters; delightful times; pattern searches, yarn searches etc within that community, I am having to say cheerio to R@velry this month. Those ..read more

(Photo taken in 2019 – PreCovid!) Hello and welcome, its’s March and it is spring…ish! Listen to the podcast  https://woolwork.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ep-129.mp3 Also available on Spotify, iTunes and wherever you find your podcasts! | Making! I finished the Crofter’s Smock by Gudrun Johnson! More details will soon be added to the My Makes section of the website. This was a really fantastic make. I thoroughly recommend it!  You can find the pattern on Gudrun’s payhip . The yarn is from Bluebell Yarns and is jacob! I have also been sewing and I have really b ..read more

Feature image shows the bare branches of trees, stretching up to a pale winter sky. Welcome in to WoolWork’s first episode of 2021! Listen to the podcast  https://woolwork.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Ep-128.mp3 Also available on Spotify, iTunes and wherever you find your podcasts!  Hi there and hello! Thanks for joining me for another episode, the first of 2021. Thanks to everyone who tuned in last month and got in touch to say lovely things about the Scotland Outdoors podcast and special thanks to those of you who got in touch when I talked about anxiety and impost ..read more

Hello friends, Welcome to episode— what is it now?  I think it’s episode one hundred and twenty-burble-burble-burble (checked later – its 127!) I knew when I sat down that this would be a long one! Today I’m talking about all the ‘I haven’t done that for a while’ things I did in November, which caused me some anxieties and some soul-searching.  I tell you about the awesome new book Perspectives, from Julie Rutter and Emily K Williams. I’m discussing all the things I want to cast on this festive break (or the endless days  as we reach the end of the year, depending on how y ..read more

I was listening to Out of Doors, on Radio Scotland, the other day and I heard a claim that drew the breath from me. Someone wrote in to say that it was important to wear wool in winter (Correct! This was not the alarming point) and they followed it up by saying they had recently brought back a suitcase of wool from a trip to Norway for… “You can’t buy 100% wool in Scotland” Kurt the Ram, in Uist, poses with a skein of yarn made from his own fleece (I’ll wait whilst you pick yourself up off the floor.) …Now, I know most of us herein know fine well of the purveyors of fine wool yarns in ..read more