Welcome to the Wildcraft Blog!

The big news this week is that our online shop is open at last! If you didn’t arrive here via the shop’s web site, you can find it here: www.wildcraft.co.uk. On the site you will find rovings for handspinning, handmade stitch markers for knitting, and some nifty turned wood yarn gauges for measuring your handspun yarns.

This weekend I’ve been facing down the huge pile of fleece I’ve recently liberated (i.e. shorn!) from the Wildcraft flock of sheep.

The ewes grew huge fleeces last year, so there’ll be plenty to make up into the drumcarded batts I’m planning to make for the shop. First off is Buffy’s, which I’m washing at the moment, it’s a fabulously clean fleece (they all are, hurrah for shearing outdoors!), and should be easy to card and spin.

I’m planning to produce an ‘elemental’ series of batts for this first batch. So we’ll have Fire (Buffy), Water (Willow), Air (Cordelia) and Earth (Giles) themed batts coming up soon. They’ll include elemental themed colours and a sprinkling of exotic fibres as well as the wool fleece from each sheep. I’m really looking forward to making them.

In the meantime, enjoy browsing the shop. I’ll be adding further rovings and stitch markers as they sell, and more yarn gauges just as soon as my mum’s turned another batch!

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