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Jamieson & Smith 2 Ply Jumper Weight shades: 26, FC41, 142, 132, 1, 75, 125, 27, 203, 47, 141, 29, 65, FC62, 5. x
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seaweed
Shetland Sheep spend their days ambling around the coastline eating heather and seaweed. This diet, along with the weather conditions, is what gives the wool it's lustre, fineness and bounce. We've said this all before but we thought it was about time we paid homage to the humble seaweed (not so much the weather, that can wait for some other time... or maybe never).x
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CLAIRE-ANNE O'BRIEN
1. We've been in love with Claire-Anne O'Brien's work since we first saw her British Wool chair. 2. And look what we found on her blog! x
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Trailing
We're a part of the lovely shiny new, first-ever, Shetland Arts and Crafts Craft Trail.The trail is a brilliant guide to around forty craftspeople, artists and their related shops and outlets and their workshops or studios – sometimes purpose built and professional; sometimes just a corner of a house. Some J&S friends include: Shetland Handspun (Elizabeth spends a lot of time downstairs, carefully choosing her fleeces before she does her magic making); Aamos Designs (the newest addition to the J&S Cooperative - online soon); Phatsheep Textiles (we have the crofthouse and ganzie prints as curtains in the store and love the shop); Journey Man Leather (for trusty knitting belts); Ninian/Joanna (who stock J&S rugs and put our Supreme to good use), and Paparwark Furniture (remember the trophy?). xx
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Wedding fever
A very patriotic taatit rug in the Shetland Museum and Archives textile collection. Image courtesy of the Shetland Museum and Archives Photo library.edit: this was meant to go up last Friday, but we thought we'd share it anyway. Better late than never, and all that!
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Old time
Fisherman's hat from Yell.Image from the Shetland Museum and Archives Photo Library.
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Woolsack
So you've probably heard of Woolsack by now, a project to knit and gift a cushion of British Wool to every athlete taking part in the Olympics and Paralympics in London, 2012.Well, we figured that it was only right, in a project spanning the whole country, that the most Northerly sheep were involved. So, in line with the whole loving giving feeling, we're giving a 15% discount on special Lucky Dip cushion packs and Woolsack Cushion Kits made from our lovely Shetland Sheep.We each designed our own cushion, even the boys (hilarious watching them charting and hithering and dithering over shades in their boiler suits!). Oliver's design, inspired by the iconic image of the London Eye and the meeting of different cultures during the games, is definitely the best one so far. Derek and June's designs are still to come.x
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The Final Felt
The felting from our the last of our classes for the summer.Thankyou to everyone who joined us. Clare A, Debbie, Rachel, Claire H, Margaret, Marina, Lois.
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Wool Holiday
Fancy coming to visit us in October during Shetland Wool Week for knitting Fair Isle and Fine Lace, weaving, meandering on the beach, visiting a croft and swooning over heirloom artefacts?If so, have a peep here. The Centre for Creative Industries are also doing Textile Tours in July and September. They'll be using Jamieson & Smith yarns and visiting us to have a chat with Oliver.Yay!x
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