Bluefaced Leicester: all your woolly and sheep questions answered with Hill Top Farm!
Bluefaced Leicester is one of our favourite wools here at ECY which is why our signature Milburn 4ply and DK yarns just had to be made using it. These noble sheep are fascinating and so we felt like now was a good time to share this love with you and give you a bit of insight into animals behind this highly sought-after fibre. I could think of noone better to help me with this than my friend Leigh, the voice of Hill Top Farm in Malham, also known as @hilltopfarmgirl”. Leigh farms with her partner Neil Heseltine, whose family have farmed in Malham...
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Interview with Lori Versaci
A few months back an order came in for Bowland DK. I thought nothing of it at the time, packaged the order and shipped it off. A little while later Lori Versaci, of VersaciKnits made contact to let me know that she had used it in a new pattern that would be released early in 2017. The launch coincided with Stitches West this past weekend and in honour of that, Lori very kindly agreed to an interview with me about the vest and her background amongst other things. The pattern for Summer Fog is available to purchase on Ravelry and...
Baby Cocktails
aka Thea Colman - I'm sure you knew that already though! We love Thea's work, and have collborated on a number of projects now, so I thought it'd be really nice to celebrate this with a gallery of Thea/ECY projects and a chat to her about her work. It comes at a time when she's just released Pimms Cup on Ravelry as a single pattern - this was part of the Drift Collection which we released in September 2015. On top of that I've got print copies of Dubonnet and Cardamom Rose which I'm putting together into kits. "V: How...
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Meraki Boutique.. an interview
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Interview: Wool On The Exe
Today we're having a chat with Debbie and Mary Ann from Wool On The Exe. The shop is new this year, and is Exeter (as you might imagine), Devon. We've supplied them with yarn and I thought it would be interesting to ask them a few questions about the shop and how it's going so far. Can you tell us a little about yourself and your background? I (Debbie) am an American who's lived in Devon for the past 9 years. Married to an Aussie - 2 grown sons, 2 step-sons. Read more about us on this page http://www.neighbourworks.co.uk/page_3165326.html How/why did...
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