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Giant Pins

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Some amazingly big knitting needles welcoming us to the woollen mill of Melin Tregwynt, Pembrokeshire. A drizzly day outside saw us making for the lovely cafe, and then a tour of the mill.

Their designs are in Welsh Doublecloth which results in a cloth that is reversible.

I fell in love with this lambswool green knot garden design! It’s attractive as a bedspread as was a wall hanging :).

Patchwork metaphor

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My patchwork squares are coming on nicely :). And I read something this morning that linked the idea of patchwork with getting things done in the world. Sometimes we can feel overwhelmed by the enormity of a project or an idea. How to help guard against climate change? How to give hope to people with stress and anxiety? How to bring more joy and abundance into the world? Well, Sharon Blackie’s excellent book says it is done by ‘Each of us sewing just one of the squares which contributes to the vast, growing patchwork quilt of the world’s renewal’.

However seemingly small our efforts, they all add up to something big. Let’s transform the world one act of kindness at a time 🙂

The book is called ‘If Women Rose Rooted :The Journey to Authenticity and Belonging’

Graduated colour

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I found a lovely knitting shop in Winchester – a knitters delight! I really liked this graduated colour ball of wool in light to dark greys. I chose to do the simplest stitch – knit on both sides, partly just to show the wool colour off as it changes grades of colour, and partly because I didn’t want to concentrate too much!