A touch of the ganseys ( knitting update)

 I'm sorry that I can't show you my Scottish trip knitting as the two hats and the headband stayed on the island when we came back. Don't worry, I didn't lose them, 

Whilst I was up there, I started a project, for a while now I've been interested in ganseys, the history and the patterns. I know that I will not have the patience to knit one but I found a pattern or Ravelry repentantly and thought that it would be a good choice to also practise doing cables as they scare me haha.

So here is the Gansey Girl at Bridlington knitting a Gansey hat by  Janet Stimson The yarn is hand spun Portland dyed by myself.

winter knitting and spinning round up

 Hi, I've been washing and blocking most of my winter knits and labelling up the spinning. Most of this is heading for pastures new and my project this year is to spin and clear the fleece backlog,

Hats ranging from aran to fine spun saxon merino.

Mitts with a bit of texture. I particularly like the ones top left.

Headbands to use up the oddments.

And, of course, the yarn now weighed, measured and labelled. This has cleared the decks a bit ready for my attempt to spin down the stash.

I may have dyed a rainbow, sort of :-)

 Two days dyeing resulted in this.

Thank goodness for a couple of sunny days. This is mainly texel x bfl, border leics cross unknown and an odd skein of lleyn. I still have plenty more to spin but this has made a small dent in the pile. Each skein is just over 100gm.