A companion mini skein to accompany Milky Way, reflecting the recipient’s star sign.
Bull. Solid muscle.
Power and raw emotion,
But made of starlight.
Information:
Title: Taurus
Composition: 70% merino 30% silk
Weight: 11g / 13 WPI / DK
Length: 28m / 31yd approx.
Care: Hand wash only. Dry flat.
Date: June 2015
Skein code: 0046
Fibre: 70/30 merino/silk blend.
Source: World of Wool – “Taurus” from the Constellation range.
I made this skein for a competition winner. I wanted to do something really special for her, and was inspired by the “Constellstion” range of fibres. What Sarah did with this yarn made it even more special, and is one of my very favourite memories from the first year of Story Skeins.
Trace the constellations telling stories in the sky: the distant, fiery hearts of other worlds.
Would our stories make sense to them?
Would they recognise the warrior, the queen, the beasts of myth?
Does our sun play a part in their stories?
What do we look like to them; all those thousands of light years between us?
Such are the questions the heavens can inspire.
Sarah did beatiful things with her yarn, and even continued the story:
As the atmosphere shifted the stars aligned and the stories as old as time were drawn into the skies.
Pictures were shining out to the eyes wide with wonder.
In those bright eyes history and amazement fought to shine through and she knew then that the night sky was her truth.
She wondered if the stars knew she was there, what they thought as they watched over her.
As her eyes began to close with the sleepiness of a fulfilled 3 year old, the night sky became a wrap that enveloped her in all its warmth and kept the terrors at bay.
The girl could finally sleep, ready to wake when the sun made its appearence the very next day.
Milky Way as a Road Trip Scarf, expertly modelled.
Information:
Title: Milky Way
Composition: 70% Merino, 30% Silk plus nylon thread and star beads.
Weight: 130g fibre weight. 237g total. 13 WPI / DK
Length: 231m / 253yd approx.
Care: Hand wash only. Dry flat. Hand wind.
Date: June 2015
Skein code: 0045
Fibre: 70/30 merino/silk blend.
Source: World of Wool – Constellation range.
I was gifted these beautiful fabric poppies. November came around and it was clear what had to be done.
They shall grow not old, as we who are left grow old.
Such haunting words, whose undeniable truth brings forth tears.
We remember a hundred and more years since the ‘great’ war.
Not the first and not the last.
Year in and year out.
Respects paid, tributes laid.
“Lest we forget” written and spoken over and over.
And yet what do we really learn?
‘Lest we forget’ seems so easily forgotten.
Information:
Title: Remembrance
Composition: 100% Merino with fabric flowers.
Weight: 100g fibre weight / 11WPI / Worsted weight.
Length: 205m / 225yd approx.
Care: Hand wash only. Dry flat.
Date: Novembwr 2015
Skein code: 0075
Fibre: 23 micron merino.
Source: Wingham Wool Work
These mini skeins were spun as part of January’s rolag club. January’s rolags were inspired by the seasonal skies, and the “Midnight Clear” minis complemented the theme, inspired by the clear starry night skies that we are treated to on those cold winter nights.
Watch the universe:
Star scenes play ancient dramas.
A winter night’s gift.
Information:
Title: Midnight Clear
Composition: 70% Merino, 30% Trilobal
Weight: 15 WPI / Sports weight
Length: 40m per mini skein
Care: Hand wash only. Dry flat.
Date: January 2016
Skein code: 0084
Fibre: 23 micron merino and rainbow-dyed trilobal nylon
Source: World of Wool – “Glitzy Ocean”
These minis were spun to accompany December’s rolag club, and are seen in action here:
Wake to frosted land,
A world of washed-out colour.
It cracks under foot.
Information:
Title: Jack Frost
Composition: Falkland plied with glitter thread.
Weight: Sports weight to heavy laceweight
Length: 40m per mini skein.
Care: Hand wash only. Dry flat.
Date: December 2015
Skein code: 0081
Fibre: 100% Organic Falkland
Source: Wingham Wool Work
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Originally posted on sewsarahcrochet:
So this week I, like all crafters, have many things on the go. I love being able to chose a project for every mood I’m in. So to the people not fluent in the lingo, all these part finished projects are known as WIPS (Works In Progress). These are the items…
Welcome to Forgotten Festivals Rolag Club!
I hope you’ve all had a good break over the festive season. Now it’s a new month, a new year and time to get back to work.
This month we are celebrating Plough Monday on January 11th.
Plough Monday falls on the first Monday after Twelfth Night. The traditional Christmas celebration was a full twelve days of feasting, culminating in a huge and rowdy party on twelfth night, the 5th of January. So what better way to mark the return to work, when ploughing would begin for the next crop … than with a feast?
In villages around the country there were a variety of traditions. Leaping dances were held, with the young and fit encouraged to leap as high as possible because it was though the height they achieved marked the height of the forthcoming corn crop. In some places, a “fool plough” was decorated and dragged around the streets to encourage villagers to donate money, sometimes under threat of having their garden ploughed if they were less than generous!
Inspired by the theme of ‘back to work’, this month’s rolags reflect January skies, and the box contains a mixture of extras to help you get going at the start of the working day, and help you relax at the end of it. I’m particularly thrilled to introduce our guest maker, Leanne from Solocro who has made one of your treats. I hope you enjoy all of it.
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In this box you will find:
“Shifting skies” gradient rolags, inspired by the January weather.
“Midnight Clear” mini skeins, inspired by the starry winter sky and spun as my favourite style of gently thick and thin singles.
Bath salts from the old apothecary in Haworth.
Handmade handcream from Solocro
I went to Fibre East for the first time in 2015, and picked up some beautiful grey Gotland fibre and this amazing rainbow trilobal from Adelaide Walker. The combination reminded me of interferometric patterns in a diesel spill, of light playfully interacting with a dystopian industrial world. They had to go together.
Industrial landscape, grimy and gritty. Smoke belches. Factories consume the population. Is there any beauty to be had here?
Beauty and cruelty, hand in hand. The stark landscape has its own elegance. Monochrome scene, all shades of grey.
A splash of oil or diesel here and there – and suddenly – a break from the monochrome!
Rainbow patterns swirl in the industrial spill. A glimpse of a more colourful, maybe a kinder, world.
Information:
Title: Unicorn Smog
Composition: 67% Gotland 33% Trilobal
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Weight: 81g / 13 WPI / DK
Length: 167m / 183yd approx.
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Weight: 69g / 13 WPI / DK
Length: 147m / 161yd approx.
Care: Hand wash only. Dry flat.
Date: July 2015
Skein code: 0063
Fibre: Grey Gotland, Rainbow dyed trilobal nylon.
Source: Adelaide Walker
I’ve always loved autumn, and long associated the season with fresh starts, new beginnings and exciting adventures ahead. It’s the beginning of the academic year, so dominated my life for almost three decades. I still have fond memories of making my way to school at the tender ages of 4, 5 and 6, with the grey weather dominating and the september foliage defining the paths along the journey. The combination of these two fibres seemed to capture that memory perfectly.
Walk out into the swirling mists of a Northumbrian autumn morning. Grey precipitation dances around you, jumping like jack frost to avoid the sun’s clarifying rays.
Catch glimpses as the grey voile shimmers: a blackberry here, a rosehip there. Leaves! Some bold and ever green, some autumnal, curling and crunching underfoot.
Breathe in the crisp air and feast your senses upon the delights of the season. As summer is put to bed, so the foundation is laid for new life. New beginnings. Autumn: the season of hope, of awakening. The time to embrace all the delights that nature offers, then return refreshed to the cosy fireside.
Information:
Title: Michaelmas Mist
Composition: 50% Bluefaced Leicester 50% Merino
Weight: 114g / 20 WPI / sock weight or “4 ply”
Length: 455m / 498yd approx.
Care: Hand wash only. Dry flat.
Date: August 2015
Skein code: 0006
Fibre: Grey Bluefaced Leicester, 21 micron merino (in “Giggleswick”).
Source: Wingham Wool Work
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