Month: March 2018

Lancashire Squares, Yorkshireficated.

Post author By PLH
Post date March 28, 2018
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Whilst ‘The Knitter’ 122 is still in the shops, I thought I’d do a quick post on the non -traditional way I constructed the centre square of the ‘Hetty’ hap shawl. Well, I say non traditional – it’s very traditional. Just in Lancashire, not Scotland! Fusion knitting is a thing, right? One thing that inspired […]

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“With His Head All Dyed A Brilliant Magenta Colour”

Post author By PLH
Post date March 23, 2018
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Well, I finally got round to making a tiny Etsy shop, to sell our mudags and some of my naturally dyed fibres: https://hemingwayandhunt.etsy.com So now the mudags will be available to folk who can’t get to wool shows in Yorkshire, this year! And also, talking of dyeing, one of my (possible) Dawson relatives found this […]

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“Boil Jently” – A Nineteenth Century Gentleman’s Lip Salve.

Post author By PLH
Post date March 14, 2018
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'The Knitter' 122. 'Hetty' hap on cover is based on Lancashire squares.

Well that was a surprise. Just opened my complimentary copy of ‘The Knitter’ which has been languishing under a chair for a few days, to see if my history of prison knitting article is in – and my hap shawl is on the cover! I had no clue. I will write some more about it […]

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Nalbinding Crash Course

End of Week 4 - the grey hat in Korgen stitch was the first of these; the second I made. Used handspun and naturally dyed (madder and logwood) as well as some commercial yarn.

Nalbinding It started like this. Every year, I meant to get on the Nalbinding For Beginners workshop, run by the York Archaeological Society at the VikingFest. Every year, it sold out before I could get on it. But, I noticed a few years back, the course for Advanced Nalbinders didn’t sell out. So, a few […]