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Shetland Wool Week 2014 - Part one
Oct. 17th, 2014 12:12 pmSaturday – we arrived and got into our cottage, bought food. Stopped in at the wool hub and put our names on the maps, walked round Lerwick in the dark
Sunday – sat about, walked round Lerwick when it was closed, stopped in at the art gallery on the high street that was run by the owner of Shetland Organic Wool and had taken down all the art, and put up all things natural wool. Then went home for a roast dinner.
I didn't go to the opening ceremony, mainly cause I had ended up with a cottage of four people, where I was the only knitter and was still trying to decide how to approach this holiday and as none of them were knitters, I mainly forgot/wasn't bothered.
Monday – QUOTIDIAN COLOURWORK WITH FELICITY FORD
Learn how to create your own colourwork knitting charts, based on the things and places you love! You're warmly invited to bring along treasured photos and/or objects.
Review: I loved this class, Felicity was an excellent teacher, and the class was exactly what I needed. She had great big swatches in which she worked through ideas for representing things she had in her everyday life. Free from fair isle shapes and any form of rules, just colours and an idea. She provided us with 5 balls of wool, a set of dpns and note book. She also bought stamps we could stamp the notebooks with.
Blog: Knitsonik
Book: Soon to be published, Stranded Colourwork Sourcebook. Someone in the Jamieson And Smith shop showed me an advance copy, its gorgeous and I’m totally getting a copy.
At this class I also learnt that there are two Jamieson wool outfits in Shetland
Jamieson and Smith, known locally as the Brokers
Jamieson of Shetland, known locally as the millshop.
Of course this was also the day when I discovered, that Jamieson and Smiths shop was literally 2 mins walk from the cottage I rented. I bought some wool, husband bought some wool and he doesn't knit!
Monday afternoon – in literally the middle of a howling gale we went to see the SHETLAND KNITWEAR IN THE OIL BOOM in the textile museum. A Victorian house overwhelmed by the industrial estate that has sprung up since the oil boom. Shetland knitwear suffered in the oil boom, when the extra income knitting yokes bought in was overwhelmed by better paying jobs for women (even if it was just cleaning).
Tuesday - FAIR ISLE JEWELLERY MAKING
Held at the artist studio, at the far reaches of the island, and of course we missed the bus. Possibly it wasn’t running, due to gales, but turns out the cab firm between cottage and the bus stop, runs 24 hours (not expected in the wilds of Scotland!). We had considered the bike, but it was still quite windy.
Review: The sheets of silver were already acid etched with the fair isle pattern, and I made some buttons, which required me to stamp out the shapes and drill some holes. Boyfriend decided to make a necklace so he got to play with the solder and blow torch. We also got morning tea and lift back to Lerwick.
I love my buttons, the silversmith had been considering making them himself, I hope that this encourages him. I would certainly go back again and make something else.
Tuesday afternoon – we walked out to the headland by Sound of Ness, and watched the waves leftover from the storms. We found a collapsed WW2 gun emplacement in a notch on the rocks, and it made a great viewing platform.
Walking home, we found a sheep breed I hadn’t seen before, and I really like. Whilst I like wool, I’ve always found sheep a bit meh! This was the first sheep (not a Shetland native, they are small and dainty) that made it to the lifestyle block list, along with a miniature highland coo and a Shetland pony. If I got the right coo, they could all be about the same size. In the photo, I think the yellow colour is from a sheep dip.
Sunday – sat about, walked round Lerwick when it was closed, stopped in at the art gallery on the high street that was run by the owner of Shetland Organic Wool and had taken down all the art, and put up all things natural wool. Then went home for a roast dinner.
I didn't go to the opening ceremony, mainly cause I had ended up with a cottage of four people, where I was the only knitter and was still trying to decide how to approach this holiday and as none of them were knitters, I mainly forgot/wasn't bothered.
Monday – QUOTIDIAN COLOURWORK WITH FELICITY FORD
Learn how to create your own colourwork knitting charts, based on the things and places you love! You're warmly invited to bring along treasured photos and/or objects.
Review: I loved this class, Felicity was an excellent teacher, and the class was exactly what I needed. She had great big swatches in which she worked through ideas for representing things she had in her everyday life. Free from fair isle shapes and any form of rules, just colours and an idea. She provided us with 5 balls of wool, a set of dpns and note book. She also bought stamps we could stamp the notebooks with.
Blog: Knitsonik
Book: Soon to be published, Stranded Colourwork Sourcebook. Someone in the Jamieson And Smith shop showed me an advance copy, its gorgeous and I’m totally getting a copy.
At this class I also learnt that there are two Jamieson wool outfits in Shetland
Jamieson and Smith, known locally as the Brokers
Jamieson of Shetland, known locally as the millshop.
Of course this was also the day when I discovered, that Jamieson and Smiths shop was literally 2 mins walk from the cottage I rented. I bought some wool, husband bought some wool and he doesn't knit!
Monday afternoon – in literally the middle of a howling gale we went to see the SHETLAND KNITWEAR IN THE OIL BOOM in the textile museum. A Victorian house overwhelmed by the industrial estate that has sprung up since the oil boom. Shetland knitwear suffered in the oil boom, when the extra income knitting yokes bought in was overwhelmed by better paying jobs for women (even if it was just cleaning).
Tuesday - FAIR ISLE JEWELLERY MAKING
Held at the artist studio, at the far reaches of the island, and of course we missed the bus. Possibly it wasn’t running, due to gales, but turns out the cab firm between cottage and the bus stop, runs 24 hours (not expected in the wilds of Scotland!). We had considered the bike, but it was still quite windy.
Review: The sheets of silver were already acid etched with the fair isle pattern, and I made some buttons, which required me to stamp out the shapes and drill some holes. Boyfriend decided to make a necklace so he got to play with the solder and blow torch. We also got morning tea and lift back to Lerwick.
I love my buttons, the silversmith had been considering making them himself, I hope that this encourages him. I would certainly go back again and make something else.
Tuesday afternoon – we walked out to the headland by Sound of Ness, and watched the waves leftover from the storms. We found a collapsed WW2 gun emplacement in a notch on the rocks, and it made a great viewing platform.
Walking home, we found a sheep breed I hadn’t seen before, and I really like. Whilst I like wool, I’ve always found sheep a bit meh! This was the first sheep (not a Shetland native, they are small and dainty) that made it to the lifestyle block list, along with a miniature highland coo and a Shetland pony. If I got the right coo, they could all be about the same size. In the photo, I think the yellow colour is from a sheep dip.
