New Edition (not the eighties band)

Well I’m home and look what I fond waiting for me in the hall when I got home……FANG Ok for those of you who don’t know I don’t have a kitten so I was a little confused I found a note in the kitchen from my brother saying don’t let the kitten out its locked in [...]

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Packed and ready to go

Thanks to Indie Knits for my latest addition to my side bar its good fun.
I’m all packed and ready to go home and although I feel at home here at silkwood there is nothing like sleeping in your own bed. Also back to my computer so maybe I can sort out this button problem I’m [...]

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Having a button problem

I don’t know if I am just to tired but am having problems up loading I heart wool button so in the mean time hit the link above until I feel a little less like throwing the computer across the floor and I will retry. ONly nine of us listed from the UK so far.

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Just a bit of fun

Something I found via Blog of a different colour.
You are Mohair.You are a warm and fuzzy type who works well withothers, doing your share without being tooweighty. You can be stubborn and absolutelyrefuse to change your position once it is set,but that’s okay since you are good at coveringup your mistakes.
What kind of [...]

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Shopping!!!!

Just a quick note to say I found this site that takes paypal and has some exciting yarn, I definitely got too much time on my hands but am so fed up with finding all these american sites with wonderful yarn only to find they only take credit cards.I admit to ordering a couple of [...]

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Socks etc

I had a good time in the Dye house yesterday and managed to dye just over 3 kilos of roving as you can see they are just waiting to be labelled and weighed.
some new experiments I am tempted to buy my favourite one to knit that moss stich bag from the first Simply Knitting but must [...]

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Secret Pal 5 Questionaire

Ok here it is my questionaire all filled in and I am so excited as this is my first Secret Pal:)1. Are you a yarn snob (do you prefer higher quality and/or natural fibers)? Do you avoid Red Heart and Lion Brand? Or is it all the same to you?I love anything new to play [...]

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Rabbits and Bunnies everywhere

So here I am back at Silkwood and including the baby bunnies I have twenty nine bunnies to take care of plus eight cats, thankfully because of the weather they have let the Raeburn go out for the summer yeh!!!!!
so cute 
The baby bunnies are so cute they are all out of the nest and do [...]

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Tangle Free Zone

Just a quick entry just got back from Liberty where the wonderful girls helped me untangle the mess of my newly dyed self patterning yarn, especially Angeli who definitely has greater patience than me but with a mug of tea at borders I managed to finish the job and have now got three balls of [...]

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Self Patterning Woman

Well yesterday after a luch out with my friend Di I got back to the studio to find Jac waiting for me and we worked out a website for a key stage two class (shes doing a teaching degree) on recycling I knew all that work with kids would come in useful apparently I tell [...]

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