J&S Blog

So we began Wednesday with another class on Fair Isle by Hazel Tindall, again it went down a treat!

In the afternoon we had the first of our lace classes with Elizabeth Johnson of Shetland Handspun, as usual once things got going this was one of the quietest classes.. lots of concentrating going on!

We stayed open after five last night to host the Shetland launch of Gudrun Johnstons newest book, The Shetland Trader Book 2!

Gudruns new book has 10 patterns, a number using J&S yarns, 3 of which you see here! We sold out of the book after a couple of hours and it was great to see how many people came to support Gudrun

Today we began the day with something a bit different for us, a fleece preparation class with Deborah Gray.

This involved Deborah showing the group how to prepare raw fleece for spinning, really interesting!

And this afternoon another class from Mary Henderson, this time of steeking! aka cutting your knitting! (not as scary as it sounds!!)

Mary had the group knit a ‘Mug Hug’ mug warmer, a nice small project perfect for steeking!

Another great few days, I headed to the Museum tonight to listen to Hazel Tindall and Stella Ruhe’s talk on Knitting in the 1960s and Dutch Ganseys, really interesting! Ill be back on Saturday with a round up of the last few days of Shetland Wool Week at J&S.

Happy Knitting!