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It is starting to get a bit MORE hectic than usual here: the handknitters guild show at the town hall in Coburg, Melbourne on May 13th and 14th is getting closer and closer! Plus there’s the weekly updates of course and the monthly clubs. Every year I am preparing some super special yarns for the upcoming show so I am spinning like mad every day and night plus getting much needed dye time in as well. It is all happening here! Again..lol It is of course Easter weekend, which for lots and lots of people, means it is a holiday and...

Happy Friday everybody ! and a big thank you all for being here and reading my blog.  Another week has flown by and I was lucky this time there were a few days of good frying weather so I can offer you something new ! This time, and I cannot believe I am saying this (bows head in shame) it is a quintessential Australian sheep breed I have never ever offered before in all the time I have been selling my hand dyed tops and yarn since 2004 : Polwarth ! I just love this beautiful sheep breed because it...

  A very lucky and happy St. Patrick’s day to all of you. Irish or not...it’s a good thing to have some luck or, as the Irish say, “Luck is believing you’re lucky” 🍀 Talking about luck, we were very lucky indeed. There was some planned back burning just over the road from us..let me say, VERY close to us this week. See photos here. It was pretty darn close!!! I still get anxious seeing fire start up in the forest just across the road, even if it is supposed to be a “ controlled burn”. Memories of the Black...

Time travelling while spinning yarn ! It is all possible and you do not even need a Tardis !