Trixie

Amazing aren't they! It's from a small company called Dystopic Fibre. He's up in Scotland and this was an advent yarn from a couple of years back 🥰

A ball of wool and a half finished sock with a star stitch marker in a yarn bowl.

Bit of sock knitting for a bank holiday before venturing out! ##SockKnitting 🧶

A folded pearl grey hand knitted jumper on a beige carpet with 2 crocheted sunflowers to the top left and 2 skeins of handspun wool to the top right.

A pearl grey hand knitted jumper on a beige carpet with 2 crocheted sunflowers laid on the front of it and 2 skeins of handspun wool to the top right.

A close up on a pearl grey hand knitted jumper on a beige carpet with 2 crocheted sunflowers to the top left and 2 skeins of handspun wool to the top right.

Only took 3 months to make this soft and snuggly wardrobe staple for my eldest! 🤣 Honestly just a little done with no colour now but very happy with the result!

Pattern is by Drops Design and is free on their website.
Wool is Drops Air in pearl grey.

#KnitSky 🧶

Thank you 🤣

Thank you 😊 they really aren't that even close up 🤣

I hope so! So long as she remembers it needs hand washing and doesn't throw it in the washing machine 🤣

A grey coloured knitted jumper which needs a neck and it's ends sewn in. Hand knitted by me in colours chosen by my daughter.

Making my eldest a cosy winter jumper. It's safe to say I'm bored with stocking stitch with no colour lol 🧶 #KnitSky

I shall do :)

Oh that's a shame. Sorry to hear about your mum. Maybe you'll be able to find another machine one day.

This one was made in the late 1800s, from what we found online :) do you still have yours?

It's a lovely machine, we managed to find it online and it was built up in Scotland in the summer of 1892, which is insane that it's still going! All it needed was a bit of oil! Thank you for the link:)

*Hand

Thank you! 😀

Lovely isn't she! This one is a hank crank 😀

Hand crank 😀

An antique singer sewing machine with some stripy fabric that's been sewn together. Background is a crap wood effect because the kitchen is a mess!

Excuse the crap background but the kitchen is a mess of fabric and washing 🤣 I've got her working though! Brand new shuttle and a little oil and she runs! She sews! She's now going to help me do some first attempts at quilting! #AntiqueSingerSewingMachine

Thank you x

Thank you, it's horrendous.

2 skeins of handspun blue faced leiscester wool in shades of brown.

2 skeins of handspun blue faced leiscester wool in shades of brown.

My gorgeous ginger and white Brian man enjoying the garden. Made it to just over 16 years old. Rest easy xx

I had the worst day yesterday having to have our gorgeous Brian put to sleep. Breaks my heart that cats' lifespans are so much shorter than ours. Cheered myself up with photos of my recent spin. Won't make the house less empty but at least it's squishy 🧶

Fingers crossed my spins are even enough lol

I think I'll take this and then another skein we've dyed using oak leaves and make some gloves!

A shetland sheep fleece with black and brown colours laid out ready for washing.

This is the fleece i bought from the guild yesterday 🥰 it came from a shetland sheep named Martha! The colours are gorgeous! It's now taking a bath and the water has already gone a truly disgusting colour 🤣 🧶 #SheepFleece #ShetlandSheep

Super soft 🥰

A finished single of blue faced leiscester in brown tones still on the spinning wheel.

Guild Saturday means a full day of spinning with wool lovers like me 🥰

#HandSpinning #HandSpunYarn 🧶

2 skeins of Alpaca fleece all skeined up.

Last of the alpaca all dried and skeined up! It's gorgeous and so soft!

#HandSpunYarn #HandSpinning 🧶

I've got more fleece so fingers crossed for a jumper, but we'll see 🥰

Thank you! The colour is amazing isn't it! 🥰

2 skeins of dark chocolate coloured wool from the Harting Black sheep.

A closer look at 2 skeins of dark chocolate coloured wool from the Harting Black sheep.

I was given some gorgeous chocolate coloured floof for my birthday and this is it all spun up! Wool from the Harting Black sheep, because I'm not obsessed 🤣 🧶

Glad it's not just me 🤣

Yeah I have to make such an effort in the first couple of rows to try and knit even looser than I do normally, which is a pain. Give me a project a few rows in and I'm all over it!