September and a Wool Show

 My monthly marker this month…

My slow stitched bag tag from The Summer of Stitching by the Bakery Bears, which took an afternoon to put together.

On Sunday (31 August) I visited the Southern Wool Show in Newbury, David drove and while I was there he drove on to Oxfordshire to visit Pendon Museum and he returned to collect me later in the afternoon. 

The Wool Show was held in two grandstands of Newbury Racecourse, and there was plenty of space to move around. As well as vendors (mainly online) selling yarn, there were also feltmakers, weavers, spinners, so a lot of shopping opportunities.

This was my shopping

Some patterns, yarn (of course) fleece, a small weaving loom, French knitting kit, Tunisian crochet hook and beads.

So I’m having a go at the loom, which is big enough to make a bookmark, this kit is produced by 

Tabby and Tweed, who I’ve been following on Instagram for some time. There were 3 colours of yarn, but I’ve started to add in some of my own. Nice easy size to pick up and put down.

There were some ladies from The Kennet Valley Guild of Weavers and Spinners and one demonstrated a cardboard disc with yarn, to make a braid, which was also quite easy to pick up. Where the spare slot is pick up the third yarn on the right to put in the slot, turn the disc to the right until the spare slot is facing you and repeat.

Which eventually makes a basic woven braid. A lot simpler than following the numbers on a Kumihimo disc, genius! (And a lot of fun if you enjoy fiddling!).

The patterns I bought were for fingerless gloves, a jumper using assorted yarns, and ruffled socks (with beads, hence the bead purchase, scarf and cowl patterns.

The French knitting kit I saw right at the end and just leaving seeing a lady working on this and I could not resist this purchase. Usual this is associated with four nails of a cotton reel, so this was different. I had a go but need a lot more practice. Here’s my sample.

You can make out loose loopy knitting underneath.

It’s certainly unusual and I don’t know what use this is, but it’s intriguing, nonetheless.