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Food & crafts => Crafts => Topic started by: Lesley Silvester on April 24, 2018, 10:36:02 pm

Title: Wonderwool 2018
Post by: Lesley Silvester on April 24, 2018, 10:36:02 pm
Anyone going this year? I'm hoping to go on Sunday and would love to meet up.
Title: Re: Wonderwool 2018
Post by: Dogwalker on April 25, 2018, 05:49:55 am
Come and say hello on the Crafty Goat Club stand :wave: ,  I'm taking Aneira and her twins, one has a top-up bottle so is probably going to be a real noisy pest all day.

We've just been told we have to move to stand R10 because Cinderhill have had to cancel.  Just opposite where we were before.
Title: Re: Wonderwool 2018
Post by: Backinwellies on April 25, 2018, 03:35:07 pm
Just decided to go on Saturday so sadly wont see you Lesley
Title: Re: Wonderwool 2018
Post by: Lesley Silvester on April 25, 2018, 10:39:55 pm
Debbie, you were already on my list.  :D :D


Linda, that's a shame. It would have been good to catch up. I was going on the Saturday but realised that the doctor's appointment have had to wait five weeks for was on that day.
Title: Re: Wonderwool 2018
Post by: Louise Gaunt on April 26, 2018, 08:36:22 am
I am not going this year so shall miss meeting up. I may try next year, as a little treat after my oldest daughters wedding. We are meeting up this weekend to discuss wedding things - she has asked me to knit her a veil!
Title: Re: Wonderwool 2018
Post by: Backinwellies on April 26, 2018, 09:21:48 am
I am not going this year so shall miss meeting up. I may try next year, as a little treat after my oldest daughters wedding. We are meeting up this weekend to discuss wedding things - she has asked me to knit her a veil!

Llanwenog might be a bit thick for a veil  :thinking:
Title: Re: Wonderwool 2018
Post by: Louise Gaunt on April 26, 2018, 01:44:52 pm
I have already said I won't be spinning the yarn! Knitting with cobweb yarn is going to take me long enough - the wedding is just under a year away!
Title: Re: Wonderwool 2018
Post by: Buttermilk on April 27, 2018, 06:48:14 am
Jamieson's of Shetland do a nice cobweb yarn.
Title: Re: Wonderwool 2018
Post by: Louise Gaunt on April 27, 2018, 08:16:19 am
Thank you, I have some on order to practice with, so good to know it is a nice yarn to work with. I shall let you all know how things are going! I hope everyone who goes to Wonderwool this weekend has a wonderful time!
Title: Re: Wonderwool 2018
Post by: Lesley Silvester on April 27, 2018, 04:30:39 pm
I am not going this year so shall miss meeting up. I may try next year, as a little treat after my oldest daughters wedding. We are meeting up this weekend to discuss wedding things - she has asked me to knit her a veil!


Shame you can't make it but you have a mammoth task on there. How long a veil does she want?
Title: Re: Wonderwool 2018
Post by: Louise Gaunt on April 27, 2018, 06:13:56 pm
Luckily not very long! I'm not sure she wants it over her face, as it isn't a church wedding, so we are thinking pi construction, relatively short but with the facility to add further rounds to make it bigger as a shawl for any future off spring to wear at their naming ceremony. A serious labour of love, but she is worth it!
Title: Re: Wonderwool 2018
Post by: Lesley Silvester on April 27, 2018, 11:38:36 pm
Don't forget to show us the photos.
Title: Re: Wonderwool 2018
Post by: Lesley Silvester on April 28, 2018, 11:26:34 pm
It's tomorrow.  :excited: :excited: :excited:
Title: Re: Wonderwool 2018
Post by: Lesley Silvester on April 29, 2018, 11:23:43 pm
Had a wonderful day and managed to come home without a single fleece or even part of one. I'm very impressed with myself. I did buy a circular loom for making cushions and a butterfly loom for squares. Oh and lip balm make from the lanolin from Romney sheep. And a yummy gluten free scotch egg and an even yummier GF chocolate brownie.


Wish I had made a note of the name of Debbie's stall and where it was but I did manage to have a look at loads while trying to find it. Hope you got everything home ok, Debbie and are not too tired.


Roll on next year's Wonderwool.
Title: Re: Wonderwool 2018
Post by: Dogwalker on April 30, 2018, 07:15:18 am
I should have taken a photo of you and your slipped 'halo' :roflanim:

Had a really good weekend, only brought home 1kg bag of raw fleece.  Still to do the stock take of plant dyed and washed mohair.  A good total takings.

Trying to wake up enough to go and milk the goats and do the basics then it's a day off weaving before I start sorting the show fleeces and tidying up the goats for the smallholder's show in three weeks.
Title: Re: Wonderwool 2018
Post by: Louise Gaunt on April 30, 2018, 08:26:21 am
Remarkable restraint Lesley! I'm glad you had a good time, and that selling was good Debbie.
Title: Re: Wonderwool 2018
Post by: Lesley Silvester on April 30, 2018, 09:34:23 pm
Not really. I didn't have much cash as I didn't think to get it and most stall don't take cards.  :roflanim: