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Crack Willow (Salix fragilis) From left to right:

Crack Willow (Salix fragilis)

From left to right: alum mordant, no mordant, alum mordant + iron modifier, no mordant + iron modifier. On Norfolk Horn ...of course... Have had this dye bath on the stove for past couple of weeks. The willow came from hedge pruning that i collected and stuffed in a bucket of rainwater in August. I meant to cook this up weeks ago - October - but life takes over. Finally got round to it. Bucket had gone really red and a weird goopy life form was growing nicely in it. Once I had strained itit cooked up ok. Had a strange smell that was new to me. I like the way each plant has its own smell. Even the evil smelling ones that need to kept outdoors. Plant dyes feed the senses.

So good to be pottering about with the pots again. Hope to get my act together and have all the new colours in the shop soon.

#naturaldye
#plantdyed
#botanicaldye
#naturaldyersofinstagram
#madeinnorfolk
#norfolkhorn
#norfolkwool
#placebasedwool
#crackwillow
#salixfragilis

Buttons make it better! It's the final attention

Buttons make it better!

It's the final attention to details that make or break a project. So I took a fun trip to my favourite purveyor of the best buttons @buttonqueenshop to find these perfect buttons to finish something I actually found time to knit just for me.

Buttons are a bit heavy so I sewed in some tape. I think tape came as stupid excess packaging frou frou on some towels. I don't throw anything useful away. There is no such thing as waste just a lack of imagination. And, what do you know, it's perfect😀

Details on the cardigan... It's #aileascardigan by @lilalu72 knitted in #lettlopi. It's warm and 'big n boyfreindy'. I feel quite stylish mincing around the woods.

#buttons
#knitters
#knittersofinstagram
#cantstopknitting
#buttonqueen
#knittersoftheworld
#cardigan
#nosuchthingaswaste

Sunrise had to run across to the other side of the

Sunrise
had to run across to the other side of the wood in my pyjamas before I missed it. Rather startling for Tim who lives down the road as he walked their new puppy😱

#fibreworkshop
#sunrise
#grabthemoment
#bigskies

A birthday gift for Wendy. #mysteryoflightcowl by

A birthday gift for Wendy.
#mysteryoflightcowl by @kammebornia

It's knitted in Limited Edition Norfolk Horn. Wendy and Oliver have a flock of Norfolk's and have supported my yarn project from the very beginning. It's really good to be able to give her a gift knitted in yarn produced from her sheep and dyed with plants from their fields.
The green is dyed with Dock leaves and the purple is Sappanwood.
Looking forward to the party😀🍺 just hopes she likes it

#fibreworkshop
#norfolkhorn
#plantdyed
#madeinnorfolk
#localwool
#britishwool
#knitters
#knittersofinstagram
#cowl
#placebasedwool
#norfolk

I am overwhelmed! The Big Little Women Fundraiser

I am overwhelmed!

The Big Little Women Fundraiser has so far raised £1848.62 for the Barefoot College Solar Mamas.

I think that's 💲2415 USD

Thank you everyone for purchasing Beths Shawl Pattern on #ravelry. In case you weren't aware all profits from the pattern are being donated.

And thank you for helping me help the Solar Mamas bring light into the world and empowering women 😗😗😗 You can still donate ☝link up top. Give a little so these awesome ladies can do alot😀

#littlewomen2019
#littlewomenmovie
#biglittlewomen
#bethsshawl
#knitters
#knittersofinstagram
#knitforgood
#fundraising
#dogood
#givealittle
#shawlknittersofinstagram
#climatejustice
#socialgood
#solarmamas
#bringlight
#barefootcollege
#empoweringwomen

Jo's shawl pattern now available. wow, I'm feelin

Jo's shawl pattern now available.

wow, I'm feeling a little overwhelmed by the great response from you all in regards to the secret knitting and Beth's Shawl.

I've now made available a pattern for Jo's Shawl as featured in Little Women 2019 on ravelry.

It's a versatile heart shaped Shawl (or Sontag if we're being period correct) worked in garter stitch with a two colour stripe and a Latvian braid edge.

Knitted in #hillesvagullvarefabrikk
Solje and #onionnettlesockyarn.

And tassels! Did I mention the tassels😀 forgotten how much I like tassels.... This is one of my favourite pieces and looks so thoroughly modern.

Hope you like it too.

#littlewomen2019
#sontag
#shawlknittersofinstagram
#ravelry
#knitters
#knittersofinstagram
#jomarch
#knitalltheshawls
#costume

Wassail! Here stands a good apple tree. Stand fas

Wassail!

Here stands a good apple tree.
Stand fast, root.
Bear well, top.
Every twig, apples big,
Every bough, apples enow.
Bloom well and bear well and merry let us be.
Let every one take if their hat and shout to the apple tree
"Apple tree we wassail thee and hope that you will bare hats full, caps full, three bushel bags full, and a little heap under the stairs". Three cheers for the apple tree man
Hip hip huzzah!

One of my favourite days, popping open the cider from this year's apples and toasting the trees to thank them and giving toast to the birds that protect them. And hopefully bringing forth a good harvest.
Cheers everyone😀🍺🍎🍏🍎 #wassail
#cider
#makeyourown
#selfreliance
#tradition
#twelfthnight

So very excited... The random number generator res

So very excited... The random number generator result was..... 18🙌🙌 The lucky winner is Anonymous so I will be contacting them shortly to arrange posting.

Thank you so very very much for all your donations and pattern purchases to the Big Little Women Funraiser.

You have so far raised £901.35.
the just giving page -☝link in bio -will remain open until the end of January where you can make donations. #bethsshawl will be on #ravelry for all time. All proceeds to the barefoot college 🙌😘😘😘🙌👏👏😀😀😀 I really do not have the words to say how much I appreciate this. But you have made me very happy. It's been a wonderful way to start the year😀

#fibreworkshop
#justgiving
#knitters
#knittersofinstagram
#knitforgood
#knitting
#fundraising
#dogood
#givealittle
#shawlknittersofinstagram
#shawlknitting
#climatejustice
#socialgood
#raffle

The Big Little Women Fundraiser update You are am

The Big Little Women Fundraiser update

You are amazing! So far donations £210!and pattern sales have raised £518!!!! Today's the last day if you want to enter the raffle to win this copy of #bethsshawl as featured in #littlewomen2019 and knitted by me😀. To enter or donate go to my just giving page link in bio☝️and donate just £1. Raffle closes at midnight tonight. And I will be announcing the lucky winner tomorrow at midday GMT.

It all goes to the barefoot college solar mamas. Help me empower women to bring light to the world!

The pattern is on #ravelry in the fibreworkshops pattern store Beth's Shawl. All profits going to the barefoot college. I'm utterly ridiculously overwhelmed as the pattern has so far raised £518.

Thank you😘😘😘 #fibreworkshop
#knittersofravelry
#knittersofinstagram
#knitters
#knitting
#fundraising
#justgiving
#dogood
#socialgood
#climatejustice
#givealittle
#knitforgood
#knitalltheshawls
#shawlknitting
#bethsshawl

Happy new year! Sending you all the most heartfel

Happy new year!

Sending you all the most heartfelt woolliest of all the very best wishes for the coming year.

I plan on doing my best in my small tiny way to keep smiling and spreading the joy😀

#fibreworkshop
#happynewyear
#heartfelt

The Big Little Women Fundraiser update #bethsshaw

The Big Little Women Fundraiser update

#bethsshawl

Thank you so much for your donations and buying the pattern. so far we have raised £202.

If you want to help me raise more for the barefoot college to support their awesome Solar Mamas go to my justgiving page link in bio. A minimum £1 donation for entry into the raffle for this copy of Beth's Shawl as featured in Little Women 2019 and hand knitted by moi😀

The raffle closes at midnight on the 3rd of January.

Alternatively you might like to knit your own. Pattern in fibreworkshop ravelry store Beth's Shawl -3. All proceeds donated.

You can find out just why the solar mamas is so important by watching the film fliptheswitch.film a documentary that will tell you exactly how far the impacts of training one women to be a solar engineer can be.

Please repost this post. 💚 the power of wool and 💚 that I can use knitting as a force for good 😀

#knitters
#knittersofinstagram
#knittersofravelry
#barefootcollege
#littlewomen2019
#solar
#ravelry
#bethsshawl
#donate
#dogood
#fundraising
#socialgood
#sustainability
#biglittlewomen
#climatejustice
#givealittle

This is Beth's Shawl, as seen in Little Women2019.

This is Beth's Shawl, as seen in Little Women2019. So I now want to use the opportunity to do more. To enable more women and girls to be empowered globally. Because, without exception, investing in women has impacts that far outweigh that initial investment. I need you to help me.
I am raffling this copy of Beth's Shawl minimum donation is just £ 1 on justgiving (fibreworkshops big little women fundraiser) and I have posted the pattern on the fibreworkshop ravelry pattern page. All proceeds from the raffle and pattern sales will be donated to the barefoot college @barefootcollege #Solar Mamas. An international charity that trains women from remote rural communities to become solar engineers bringing light and power to their communities.

Today, the barefoot college operates in 1300 villages in 90 countries worldwide. The impact of the college is so much more than the direct training of these women, who do not read or write, to provide solar power and reduced carbon emissions. These solar mamas train others, bring light, clean energy, create employment and self-reliant solutions for their communities.

There isn't enough space for me to tell you just how far the impacts of a tiny £ or dollar investment in a solar mama goes. So help me to help them combat ultra poverty, gender inequality and climate change. Go watch www.fliptheswitch.film

And if you don't want the raffle or the Shawl pattern just go to the barefoot college online and donate direct!

I'm so stoked by this, it's not often my super power (Knit Force if you will) can help light up the darkness😀

Please repost this, forward this on, tell your friends. Thank you😘😘😘 justgiving.com/fundraising/jenn-monahan

#littlewomen2019
#knitters
#knittersofinstagram
#ravelry
#solarmamas
#barefootcollege
#knitforcepower
#biglittlewomen
#gretagerwig
#empoweringwomen
#dontgetmadgetequal
#raffle
#fundraising
#climatejustice

#littlewomen2019 Check out the knitting... This i

#littlewomen2019
Check out the knitting... This is what I do in my secret knitting life. Very lucky to have been one of the knitters. So very chuffed that some of these peices made the cut. Have been having giddy secret smiles every time I see the posters😊

Going to be using my knitpower as a force for good.
Will be posting how tomorrow.
I aim to keep the empowering women ripples rolling...watch this space😀

#littlewomenmovie
#knitters
#knittersofinstagram
#costume
#mysecretknittinglife
#emmawatson
#florencepugh
#saoirseronan
#elizascanlen
#gretagerwig
#empoweringwomen

Solstice! Light a fire, beat back the darkness.

Solstice!

Light a fire, beat back the darkness. The year has turned. Yay! The days can only get lighter.

So good health, much happiness and contentment to you and yours for the coming year xxx

#fibreworkshop
#solstice
#wintersolstice
#fire
#beatbackthedarkness

Ive been playing with madder! Red, orange, pink,

Ive been playing with madder!

Red, orange, pink, purply, and corals.
Normally the dying happens outside when there's sunshine to power the boiler or I light a fire on cloudy days. I can make potions and vats to my hearts content. But its winter, its cold and the days are short so no solar. But the fires are on and it seems a shame not to use the heat. Particularly good for madder dye bath which needs a long n slow soaking at a low temperature. This bunch of lovelies has taken four weeks or so of patient slow slow slow dyeing

So perfect for these long slow drab and short winter days as we hurtle through the years cycle to the imminent winter solstice. I have grown to love the slow pace of winter. I used to hate it but something changed when I embraced winter and the chance to slow down, to knit, think, read, sleep and put the year to rest and think about the coming one.

Now that's slow living😀
#fibreworkshop
#madder
#naturaldyersofinstagram
#plantdyedwool
#naturaldyes
#localprovenance
#slowliving
#slowfashion
#embracewinter

Last gig of the year. I'm at Designer Makers 21 i

Last gig of the year. I'm at Designer Makers 21 in Diss for the St Nicolas Fayre.
A chance to take the Norfolk Horn south of the county to educate and generally bang on about how brilliant british wool is and why they need to know about the Norfolk Horn. No ones got that slightly scared or glazed look yet. Which is good, as I've had quite a lot of coffee so could be coming across like a coked up stockbroker circa 1985.

Enjoying hanging out with some very talented company. Meeting new friends and catching up with old ones. Fay #thewoodlandhaberdasher
And her amazing carved spoons and plant dyed yarns and Kim @saorished weaving her beautiful things.
Plus I'm right next to the cakes.😁 Come and say hi.

#designermakers21
#diss
#craftfair
#norfolkhorn
#localwool
#madeinnorfolk

Thought we could use some cheering up today... Lau

Thought we could use some cheering up today... Launching the next limited edition Norfolk Horn. Its a DK weight. And features the 2018 clip.

Vital statistics: 50g /1.8ozs, 105m / 115yds £8 50g skein link to shop in bio☝ or DM me.

And if you want to know what Norfolk Horn is like to spin/knit/crochet you need to head over to @_woolwork (nee knitbritish) podcast episode 120. The Norfolk Horn is the subject of a wool exploration and is given a thorough work out by lots of fantastic reviewers. I'm so happy as it seems to have resulted in some more members of the Norfolk horn fan club. Yay!
Feeling better already😀

#fibreworkshop
#norfolkhorn
#knitters
#lovelocalwool
#Madeinnorfolk
#rarebreedyarn
#yarnswithprovenance
#norfolkwool
#knittstagram
#crochetersofinstagram
#knitlocal
#sustainablefibre

I'm taking the workshop to Hingham for the Fayre o

I'm taking the workshop to Hingham for the Fayre on the Fairland on Sunday. One of my rare winter appearances... Hopefully the weather will behave as I will be shivering outside

Come along and say hello😀

#fibreworkshop
#winterfayre
#hingham
#norfolklife

Out on the Great Eastern Pingo trail at Thompson c

Out on the Great Eastern Pingo trail at Thompson common yesterday. Very hard frost turned the watery wonderland white.

The Pingo's are small circular water filled hollows left by melted rubbly ice lenses at the end of the last glacial period. Its an otherworldly wooded watery place pock marked with small ponds surrounded by the open heathy Brecks. The Pingo's here are largely intact with a rich biodiversity. Home to many rare species like the king diving beetle (Dytiscus dimidiatus) and the fringed heartwort (Ricciocarpus natans). Sadly places like this are few and far between. Drained and ploughed and grazed away till only fragments and traces remain.
If you are ever around these parts its well worth taking the time have a ramble through them. Magical😀

#fibreworkshop
#pingo
#greateasternpingotrail
#brecks
#beautyinnature
#norfolklife
#dytiscusdimidiatus
#ricciocarpusnatans

Look what has arrived! Yay! The next edition of t

Look what has arrived!
Yay! The next edition of the Norfolk Horn. Produced from the 2018 clip.
Its subtly different in character from 2017 edition. Softer spun, but still has that great Norfolk fleck and rustling taffeta feel. Can't wait to get it skeined up and ready for release.

Very happy, as it now means I can get the dye pots going with all that dried and preserved plant stuffs I squirrelled away over the summer and autumn. happy slow days ahead over the fire😀

#fibreworkshop
#norfolkhornwool
#norfolkhorn
#madeinnorfolk
#woolwithprovenance
#rarebreedyarn
#knitbritishyarn
#localyarn
#norfolklife

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