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Journal of Scottish Yarn issue 2

The Journal of Scottish Yarns Issue 2 Autumn/Winter

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Welcome to the second issue of The Journal of Scottish Yarns, Autumn / Winter 2022

Contents include:

  1. Di Gilpin: a retrospective on the career – so far – of knitwear designer and Scottish textile advocate

  2. The Princes Trust Future Textiles programme: with specifics from The Library of Knit, a Knitwise project which Di Gilpin worked on culminating in an installation in the arboreteum of Dumfries House in Ayrshire

  3. The origins of Tartan: commemorating the 200th anniversary of Gorge IV visit to Edinburgh in 1822

  4. The Silly Sheep Fibre Company: story of yarn from a croft on Shetland and their adventures with several sheep breeds

  5. Jennie Howes, SkyBluePink Designs: evolution of a life in crafting from learning as a child through to operating a shop in Berwick-upon-Tweed, teaching crafts and selling handspun yarn

  6. Black Isle Yarns: story of a small yarn producer who gathers fleece from smallholdings on the Black Isle and hand dyes the spun yarn using natural plant dyes

  7. Woven Identities: Tartan meets Koru by Maori artist Mitchell Manuel: an exploration cultural heritage and symbolism inspired by Scottish ancestry, based on the autumn exhibition at the Smith Gallery in Stirling

  8. A view of New Zealand from emigrating Scots via the Diaspora Tapestry

Patterns:

Knitting:

  • Dullieach yoked jumper by Lucy Hague using The Birlinn Yarn Company

  • Aggie the Highland Cow intarsia jumper by Sylvia Watts-Cherry using Di Gilpin Lalland

  • Portmoak Moss beanie hat by Louise Mossom using Jamiesons of Shetland Spindrift

  • Moness large rectangular shawl by Maddie Harvey using The Silly Sheep Fibre Company’s laceweight yarn

  • Bemersyde triangular shawl by Samira Hill using Cookston Crafts/Ripples Craft yarn

  • Harris the Highlan Cow toy by Kirsten Bedigan using Jamieson & Smith Jumperweight

Crochet:

  • Eildon Woods yoked jumper by Samira Hill using Black Isle Yarns Auchen yarn

  • Droman jumper by Merrian Holland using Jamieson’s of Shetland DK

  • Dunkeld slipper socks by Marta Mitchell using New Lanark Spinning Aran weight

Rainbow Ram Embroidery sampler by Susie Finlayson, based on sheep head motif on inside cover, illustration by Mandy Tait/Natty Maid, using Bow Fiddle Yarns embroidery thread

When you purchase a physical copy of the journal details of how to obtain a free digital copy using a unique code are included with the delivery.

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🍂Autumn is officially here. Not sure about wher 🍂Autumn is officially here. Not sure about where you stay but here on Skye there is definitely a chill in the air. 
🍂I find this time of year hugely inspiring to knit, crochet, make. 
So we are delighted to share this release of a new pattern and kit with you. Designed by me (eek!) it is a pair of cosy wrist warmers knitted up in Tuath, our Shetland fingering weight yarn naturally dyed with indigo and madder.
🍂 The inspiration for the wrist warmers comes from my daily walks to Rubha nam Braitheran ( brothers point) which is a 5 minute walk from our door. 
🍂I find great solace in this wild and beautiful coast line and find the hypnotic waves, whether they be crashing or lapping, act as an anchor in my life. 

🍂as with everything I knit these are a simple knit! It’s a 12 stitch repeat using double pointed needles. Rhythmic and calming like the waves these wrist warmers knit up quick (hurray!) and make a good Autumn project. It uses 4 shades of yarn and we have made up kits with a digital pattern which are available in our online shop now ✨🍁🍂😘

#naturallydyed
#colourworkknitting 
#shilasdair 
#isleofskye
✨slow colour magic✨ ✨it’s been a flurry of ✨slow colour magic✨
✨it’s been a flurry of activity here this week and I keep forgetting to take photos!
✨it’s wool shop visiting season I think as we have had so many lovely customers from all over the world coming to visit our wee shop on Skye. It’s incredibly inspiring meeting other makers and hearing what they are going to create with our yarn.
✨we are still managing to keep the dye pots busy and have been dyeing with birch today - final colour we need to create more healing shawl kits so more news on those coming soon 🥰
✨teasing the colour out of the birch bark is a slow process of gentle heating and soaking for days. But with patience we get rewarded with a delicate salmon colour.. magical ✨🌱🥰

#birchdye 
#slowcolour 
#isleofskye 
#plantdyes 
#plantcolour 
#hebrides 
#naturaldyes 
#dyepot 
#naturaldyestudio
✨coara chunky bundles✨ 🧶Amelia has bundled ✨coara chunky bundles✨
🧶Amelia has bundled together beautiful bunches of our naturally dyed yarn and they are in our online shop now
🌱we have all different weights in there and they make a brilliant gift - we have lots of non knitters and crocheters buying them as pressies for friends back home here in our Skye shop.
✨they are also a really good way to add colour to a project without having to buy a 100g ball of each 
🍁I admit I thought this photo would be perfect for the start of the ‘ember’ months’ when the weather starts to chill but we’ve woken up today to a glorious ☀️day! 
😃have a wonderful day no matter what the weather 🙏✨📿

#naturallydyed 
#plantdyed 
#botanicaldyed
✨we are in scent heaven in the shop today…. A ✨we are in scent heaven in the shop today…. A delivery of the most amazing incense ever by the wonderful ladies @templeofincense .
✨we love absolutely everything about this incense… the smells are truly wonderful and the explanation of the scents and their healing properties makes us want to sing 😃✨🪄📿
✨so,so happy to have these in our lives! Have popped them in the online shop too - (link in bio) so you can read up about each scent and it’s history & healing 🙏

#handrolledincense 
#templeofincense 
#skyeshopping 
#isleofskye 
#incense
📿the mala bead cowl📿 ✨such a special proje 📿the mala bead cowl📿
✨such a special project to share with you all
✨a simple knit cowl with 108 mala beads/bobbles to knit and affirm an intention.. whether it is to heal, to be strong, to be enough you can use this affirmation in each bead stitch and create a talisman like cowl to wear for comfort and peace.
✨kits are in our online shop or here in our Skye shop 11-4🙏😘✨📿

#malabeadcowl 
#naturallydyed 
#knittingwithintention 
#mindfulknitting 
#isleofskye 
#heal 
#slowstitching
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