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October 11, 2010
It is British Wool Week 11-17 October 2010
See the Campaign for Wool website.
There is a special week long retailer promotion which as been publicised by the British Wool Marketing Board.
Rowan has released a series of free patterns to celebrate wool week, using its British Breeds yarns, entitled British Sheep Breeds Homeware, all using 100% British Wool. The collection comprises of 10 designs of cushions, throws, mats and hot water bottle covers. See pages 1-4 here.
The FT did an article here.
BBC Countryfile had the first in a series of reports on taking wool from Adam's Farm and turning it into a Saville Row suit last night. You have seven days to view on iPlayer (UK only). It is worth watching as the whole show centred on local places in the Durham Dales, which is beautiful, historic, wild and on my doorstep :)
Locally: there is a Wool Week at Shipley Art Gallery in Gateshead, which has a number of activities including felting during the week, to promote British wool and raise awareness with schools. The gallery will be partnering up with a local community farm at Bill Quay which has Hebridean and Jacob sheep and may possibly be bringing some sheep to the gallery.
During wool week the gallery will be hosting an afternoon event to encourage visitors to knit with British wool and increase their awareness and familiarity of it and its possibilities.
Check out your local suppliers and galleries for further events and promotions - and this week, it you are thinking about buying yarn, buy wool, and buy British!
The best place round me for buying British yarn (a lot of it from rare breeds) is The Knit Studio, in Newcastle upon Tyne. British sheep breeds stocked include Shetland, Blue-Faced Leicester, Manx, Black Welsh, Grey Suffolk, Jacob and Hebridean, and UK brand knitting yarns including Rowan, Colinette, J.C. Rennie, Natural Dye Studio, Ba T'at Yarns from Ilkley, Flying Flock from Shetland and Nude Ewe.
Posted by glittrgirl at October 11, 2010 8:45 AM
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Hi,
I have been a longterm admirer of your knitting and have also made the delicious scotch bonnet chilli soup, thank you.
I hope you don't mind but I have posted a link on our shop blog to your blog as you have lots of links for British Wool week. Lazy I know but I think my readers will appreciate your work too.
Hope this is ok,
Catriona.
Posted by: Catriona Williams 
at October 13, 2010 6:58 PM
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