2018 Retreat

This years retreat only saw 14 ladies attending full time , three others were just day people.
Tuesday - Mum taught faux felt book covers

Due to the forecast weather for Thursday it was decided to have the solar dyeing on tuesday afternoon.

Wendnesday was a free day , I had my trading table and sold quite a few bags ect but I forgot to take a photo 😥😥

in the afternoon we took a trip to Spotlight and brought needles and foam to have a play with needle felting on thursday 

The retreat was great this year just the right amount of workshops and free time 

Mum and me having a coffee Break 

Mum , me and Helen 

Yarn Dyeing

 I spent every spare moment dyeing this past week, now I need to sell some to be able to make more lovely coloured yarn and fibre for spinning

Knitting

A fat silk single knitted into a Mobius. Hand dyed merino rovings , then spun into a single . I Chain plied it to keep the lovely colours together, I used a Cat Bordhi's method of casting on from the centre and knitting both sides at the same time  . Not really but it feels like that 😊

Shawl

I Have nearly finished this shawl . I have the hardest part to go , Picking up around 700 stitches for the boarders . I brought the sock yarn used in the shawl from Love Knitting

 my first colour choice 

 second choice 

looks great , I think 

Miss Grace Shawl

Socks

Having hair coloured and then we are going to visit IKEA, I need some of there plastic bags. Finished the yellow/orange pink socks last night while enjoying the lovely Lindt Chocolates that the lovely Hang Chau gave me on Sunday.

More sock knitting, perhaps this pair will go onto the Platform Gallery. I put two pairs of these orange / pink socks into the Gallery and one pair has already sold 

A Sock blank

I gave one of my striped sock blanks to my friend Helen to knit up so I can see how it will work for socks . I think it looks amazing

Diy sock blanks

I have wanted to try dyeing sock blanks but they work out quite expensive if I want to sell them on after dyeing . I brought a 42 needle round knitting machine from Lincraft last time I was in Adelaide.
I used my normal sock undyed merino and polyamide  and used two thread at a time well its a bit of work but well worth it once the blank is knitted , dyed washed and wound

I took a bit of practice to get the machine to not drop a stitch but then I realized for the blank it didn't matter at all. 😺