Silkwood

Knitting and Stitching Show 2006

2006-10-11T23:24:00.000-07:00

So here we are all set up and ready to go for the four day show at Alexander Palace. Do drop by and say Hi

Sock Yarn Alert

2006-05-14T03:07:00.000-07:00

Just to let you know the good news that our new sock yarn is now available at Woolly Workshop she also has our special hedgerow sock yarn dyed from all natural ingredients from recipes created by Tess and her Grandmother.

2006-03-16T07:35:00.000-08:00

Pickles inspecting yarn

Updated Show List

2006-03-16T06:37:00.000-08:00

As normal due to organisers and such like we have a revised show list as follows
March
23rd - 26th Stitch & Craft 2006 - Olympia

April
20th - 23rd Stitch and Creative Craft Show - Royal Bath and West Show Ground
29th - 1st of May The Home and Garden Show - Chelthanem

May
27th - 29th Mapledurham

June
2nd - 4th Barley Lands

August
11th - 13th Losely
18th - 20th Paraham Park
26th - 27th Hampton Court Green

September
9th - 10th Barleylands steam
29th - 1st October Sandown Stitch

October
12th - 15th The Knitting and Stitching Show - Alexander Palace

November
17th - 19th Sandown Crafts

Chelthanem

2006-02-16T04:21:00.000-08:00

So we are on the road again, this time at The Cotswold Creative Crafts Show Thurs 16 - Sat 18 February

2006

The Centaur Centre

Cheltenham Racecourse

Open 12 noon - 9pm Thurs

10am - 5pm Fri/Sat

A strange show for us this one as we will be home on Sunday, so do come and say hello if you are coming to the show.

Home Again

2006-01-19T06:32:00.000-08:00

Hello to all of those that visited us at Sandown this last weekend
Sandown

heres the stand with Tess and Yvonne all ready to jump into action.
At the show we introduced our new yarn a supersize roving which seemed to go down well this is it knitted up into a scarf which took 400g of the yarn. We haven't got much in stock as we are waiting for the next run at the mill but we are really excited about it.

scarf

Les' wooden items also seemed to go down well especially the new supersize crochet hooks, in fact they were so popular they all went before I could take a picture.
newbies

And finally on Sunday we have three new arrivals delivered, aren't they cute

Happy New Year

2006-01-03T13:34:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year to you all.
Here is are show dates that have been confirmed to date

January
12-15th Stitch and Creative Crafts at Sandown Park

February
3-5 Stitch And Creative Craft at Manchester G Mex Centre
16-18 The Cotswold Creative Crafts Show at Cheltenham Race Course
25-26 Sandown Crafts

March
23-26 Olympia

April
20 -23 Stitch and Creative Crafts Show at the Royal Bath and West Show Ground

Reminder

2005-10-11T15:19:00.000-07:00

Just a quick note to remind you that we will be at the Knitting and Stiching Show at Alexander Palace this weekend. Do come and say hello.

Update

2005-09-13T13:12:00.000-07:00

Thanks to all of those who came to visit us last weekend, we had a quick trip home on Monday to swap the rabbits over and replenish the stocks in the caravan and we were off again this time to the National Stitch and Creative Needlecrafts Show at the NEC in Birmingham. We will also get the chance to meet up with Gill from Woolly Workshop while we are there as she is coming to give us a hand on the stall.
So until we return from the show with pictures here are a few shots of the rabbits.
Model Rabbit

Shaun

Tucking into Breakfast

Countess Silky ears

Come and join us

2005-09-02T12:52:00.000-07:00

Come and join us for the open day this Saturday at the Yarn House in Caterham on the Hill and see more of our new dye lots

Upcoming show

2005-08-22T00:40:00.000-07:00

Just a quick note to say thank you to those who visited us at Paraham this weekend.
We are also away next weekend at the Hampton Court Green Country Affair which sounds like it could be fun, its a new show for us and its also the first year for them so I guess it will be a steep learning curve on both sides.
Just to wet your appetite here are a couple of photos of yarn from our latest dyeing session.
Some recent 4ply

Most of these are four ply except the beautiful slate grey contessa.

Some more new yarn.

If you want to see some of our new silk please check out Woolly Workshops site as they whisked away before I manage to take photographs.

Sunny Days at Syon

2005-08-12T05:16:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the delay in an update we are having a few computer issues, soon to be resolved.
Here are some Photos of us at Syon Park,

Tess and Pippin enjoying the day out

where we had three wonderful days with the bunnies and some wonderful helpers.

Little Lixie and Les hard at work

Our thanks goes to Jill, Yvonne and Little Lixie who all came down and helped on the stand and demonstrating their knitting skills.

The wool in all its glory

Upcoming Shows

2005-07-27T15:25:00.000-07:00

Come and see us in person at Syon Park at the Art Craft and Design Show Live between the 5th and 7th of August

Sneak Preview

2005-07-26T15:42:00.000-07:00

Heres a sneak preview of our new yarn in our range this is a beautiful 2ply Aran weight 100% silk yarn which has a beautiful lustre.
Here it is dyed in the carnival colour way, see how well the silk takes the colour.

Carnival colourway

And here is a quick knitted sample we couldn't wait to see the result ourselves.

knitted sample

New Baby Bunny photos

2005-07-23T13:14:00.000-07:00

As promised here is an update on the baby bunnies, they are a little older and have had their first haircut.

you looking at me

Aren't I cute

ahhh

Hand Spun

2005-07-20T00:38:00.000-07:00

This week we've been concentrating on getting some of our handspun done and this is some of our results.
basket full

Firstly this is our yarn Starflower

curls waiting to be spun

We start we handdyed wenslydale curls and we end up with a highly textured yarn with occasional drops of curls.

beautiful curls

Also in the basket is some of our handspun angora

angora1

These are two natural colourways

angora2

And of course we know where the fleece comes from for this

one of the baby bunnies getting bigger

A New Completed project

2005-07-12T13:50:00.000-07:00

Les is a self taught crocheter, and now makes all the crocheted hats, scarves and ponchos for Silkwood for sale at the shows.
Front view

This little shoulder wrap is made from Angora and Merino.
Back Veiw

In his other life he is a professional wood turner.

More Colours

2005-07-09T13:35:00.000-07:00

Here are two more colours in our colour range.

Dreamtime

Pink Fuschia
Also check out the lovely spread that Wooly Workshop has done of our yarns, apparently within 24hrs of them being on the site she had sold the first skeins.

And the winner is

2005-07-06T12:51:00.000-07:00

After much debate we have found a winner in our name the bunny competition, let me introduce you to Shaun

Shaun felt a little camera shy
Congratulations Polly you are are winner, as you can see Shaun has had his first haircut and it is in the process of being spun.
Tess and Les had such a hard time choosing between the entries that we will be having runners up who will be contacted shortly who will have a 10% discount on any order of yarn.

Colour ways

2005-07-01T12:35:00.000-07:00

Whilst putting together our soon to be available colour cards I have taken photos so you will have some guide for ordering but as always the colours are only a guide.
These are the first eight colours.

Garnet

Sea Scape

Sunrise

Pebbles

Plum Wine

Fire Fly

Night Sky

Capricorn New colour

Another wonderful selection of yarns from SIlkwood

2005-06-30T06:00:00.000-07:00

Here are the latest shots from the dye house, Firstly our hand dyed hand spun silk.
Hand Spun Silk It is so light and soft its gorgeous.
Then here is our newest batch of Mohair drying on the line.

New Mohair Dye Batch

Close up of some of the vibrant colours

and another close up
And as the deadline for the name the bunny competition is today hopefully we will post the winner here tomorrow as well as a phot of a couple of our new colourways.

Wonderful day at Yarn House

2005-06-12T02:34:00.000-07:00

We spent a wonderful day at Yarn House,

Yarn house open day

Sheelagh had a wondeful open day to join in with the Caterham Festival and invited us to come and demonstarte spinning and some of our new yarns

wonderful display in the front window

we met a lot of our old friends there (spot the faces in the pictures) and met a few new ones.

Tess in demonstration mode spinning angora

2005-06-09T00:57:00.000-07:00

Close up of those subtle colours

2005-06-09T00:56:00.000-07:00

Some new colours and see our wonderful curly mohair in the middle

2005-05-29T06:34:00.000-07:00

A range of roving

2005-05-29T06:33:00.000-07:00

Some more unique colour ways after a long day in the dye room

2005-05-28T03:22:00.000-07:00

another colour way photos a little dark

2005-05-28T03:21:00.001-07:00

close up of new yarn

2005-05-28T03:21:00.000-07:00

Proud mummy bunny Amber

2005-05-28T03:20:00.000-07:00

I know its early

2005-05-28T03:19:00.001-07:00

squashed between brothers and sisters

2005-05-28T03:19:00.000-07:00

This one stood still long enough so I managed to get a shot without the flash

A new range of Colours

2005-05-25T03:15:00.000-07:00

After much experimentation and many years of experience we have come across a new dying method (for us any way) which produces one off unique hanks colours.

Some of our one off unique hanks

A Successful day in the Dye House

There is enough in each hank to make a small Poncho, or a nice large scarf and hat or maybe a childs sweater its up to you.

And yet more Colour

and another

New Pictures

2005-05-25T03:05:00.000-07:00

Aren't these baby bunnies getting big and so cute and a lot more active.

latest pictures

can you count the number yet

Dinner time

COMPETITION DATE CHANGE!!!

2005-05-18T01:39:00.000-07:00

Due to a reguest from a certain Knitting Group (you know who you are) we have extended the competition, the deadline is now the 30th of June and you can either leave your suggestion as a comment, send it to Silkwood direct with Rabbit name as suggestion or to me at Nickerjac (Thank you to Tracey for pointing out my omission from the instructions :).
We've had some great suggestions so far so keep naming that rabbit

COMPETITION!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2005-05-15T04:04:00.001-07:00

To celebrate the start of our Blog we have decided to have a competition. As you can see we have a new rabbit, unfortunately he has yet to be named so our competition is to name the bunny and the winner will recieve some yarn handspun from his first hair cut. The competion ends on the 31st of May so get those enteries in.

2005-05-15T04:04:00.000-07:00

A new fluffy additin to the silkwood family

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another gorgeous bunny

2005-05-11T16:09:00.000-07:00

another furry friend trying to help

2005-05-11T16:08:00.000-07:00

new beautiful subtle shade on mohair

2005-05-11T16:06:00.000-07:00

close up of a couple of unamed colours - any suggestions?

2005-05-11T16:05:00.000-07:00

Successfil days work

2005-05-11T16:04:00.000-07:00

Lilac-Magic

2005-05-11T16:03:00.000-07:00

New 4ply yet unnamed isn't it gorgeous!!

2005-05-11T16:02:00.000-07:00

Night Sky, New England and Phoenix

11th May 2005

2005-05-11T15:13:00.000-07:00

We tackled our autumnal range of yarns today to see which we were going to keep in our range of colours. Plus an order for contessa in Night Sky and some other experiments meant a successful days work see the results above.

2005-05-11T15:12:00.000-07:00

Mummy waiting to be reunited with her babies

2005-05-11T15:08:00.000-07:00

One of our new additions

Hello

2005-05-11T15:06:00.000-07:00

We thought we would share with you some of our new yarns as we dye them plus the added bonus of the odd picture of our angora bunnies.