Tag: Shetland hap

colour skills

Colour Skills at Leicester Guild

Colour skills at Leicester Guild was a happy day yesterday. I did a mini workshop called ‘Tints, Tones and Shades – a module of my Manage-Colour-before-it-Manages-You Workshop which take place in June. Tints Tones and Shades (TTS) is a basic colour skill that is useful when you have fibre or singles that is too Vibrant, too Dull, […]

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HapHazard Knitters take to the garden

The weather was so lovely on Wednesday we sat by the pond…Erica couldn’t resist spinning up some of the new clip Shetland I had washed

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In the Grease

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Another shawl is finished…

Frances has learned to spin and knit in the last three years or so – she was delighted to finish her shawl at Haphazard knitters on Wednesday evening…it will need to be washed and blocked now

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Learn to spin in July – shetland hap in December…

Our little HapHazard group has completed four Shetland Haps so far and four more are ‘work in progress’. the one on the left is in handspun Blue faced Leicester by Val who only learned to spin in July – she works part time, and has a family and horse to look after so it is […]

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another shawl goes to the wall

Here is another shawl in four shades of Blue Faced Leicester plied with silk and mohair that I have just completed. I started it while knitting with my Wednesday group

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