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Wool Week 2014
After a lot of organising, the full programme is now online, you can find it here! We have a full diary at Jamieson & Smith with classes every weekday and a few trunk shows at night.. as well as Oliver's daily sorting and grading demonstration. It looks set to be a brilliant week again! Shetland Box Office Bookings will open on Monday 28th April at 10.00am (BST) To look back at some of our previous Wool Week Posts, click here Jamie Smith waiting patiently for the visitors last year!
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Wool Week 2013 at J&S in pictures
Monday The calm before the storm... ...and we're off! Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
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Wool Week Day 3 - Wednesday
I cant believe we are half way through the week already! Today we had another brilliant Fair Isle Class with Hazel Tindall As the rain poured outside the ladies chose two colours and got started with their knitting. Hazel gave them a chart and they could choose to knit a wristwarmer or a skinny scarf. She also brought in some examples of her Fair Isle knitting for us to see And the quiet set in as they all began to concentrate.. At the end of the class there was a great start to the knitting for the class members to take away and add to. In the afternoon we had a visit from the Whalsay Bairns Knitting Club, we first met the girls when they came to visit us a few months ago to be filmed for the BBC. The group consists of about 10 or so young girls who have a knitting club at their school in Whalsay at lunchtimes and after school. There have been various photographers and camera crews in this week and today was no different. Some of the girls even had a go! A lot of the girls were working on Fair Isle Yoke jumpers and cardigans or hats. You could see how good their skills were and it was inspiring to see. As we said in the previous blog post about them, they are Shetland's future knitters! This is the lasses with their teacher Amanda who organises their knitting club. Her passion and skills are all being past onto the girls and long may it continue! Tomorrow we have a bit of Needle felting in the morning and a free afternoon to catch up on our orders and hopefully see more visitors, til then.. happy knitting! x
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Wool Week is here
We've been very quiet in the run up to Shetland Wool Week, but now that it's here we're hoping to get lots of posts in.Last night there was a felting class here at Jamieson & Smith with Norwegian artist Karin Flatoy Svarstad. Place the Shetland Combed Tops ever so carefully, then add some spelsau for the sea, then destroy it all with water and roll roll roll until VOILA, a beautiful 'wool watercolour', as Karin calls it. And here's my (rather flustered) attempt - with the dark Shetland winter in mind. xPS. Have you seen Sheep Heid. It's possibly the most brilliant piece of genius I've seen in a little while. Kate triumphs again!
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