It is Wool Show time again. The Australian Sheep and Wool Show is a big shebang in these parts and runs over three days. It has been run annually since 1877! The Wool Show is a place were you can see all kinds of sheep including Merino, Polwarth, Corridale, Poll Dorset, Dorper, White Suffolk, Dorset Downs, […]
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And here are my treasures from the Australian Sheep and Wool Show 2014…already knitted and spun in my mind’s eye! Two skeins of Mosley Park English Leicester and Merino blend in double knitting weight. Grown and dyed by Mosely Park in South Australia and the last of batch of Australian spun. There is about 200 […]
Last Saturday, our family made the annual pilgrimage to Bendigo for the Australian Sheep and Wool Show. It was a fine winter day, chill but sunny. Bendigo was looking majestic and festively woolly. The Wool Show was here. It looks a little bleak doesn’t it but rest assured, there were lots more folks inside! The […]
And now for some pics of the Australian Sheep and Wool Show 2013. If you are viewing this post in an email and cannot see the pictures, please click through blog post title to view the post in your browser.
Meet the third item I submitted for the Wool Show this year…the Pineapple Stacks Hat. It may look familiar to you in this form. It is the hat I made in Somerset, UK last year that got left on a tram in Vienna I think. I made this one bigger, no roll up and decreased […]
This is the second garment I entered at the Wool Show. I’ve called it Baby Lottie because, well, I am a desert of ideas right now. It does kind of capture the scandawegian look I was going for though. There is a lot of geekery that follows so if you don’t knit or spin, just […]
This is the first of my show entries I would like to share with you. This one is especially dear to me. The streaks of paint and toothpaste already adorning it, tell me my Dear Girl loves it too. The idea for this little red dress formed all the way back in March. I was […]
I was just happy to have slayed that dragon, I did not know it was sitting on treasure! But I guess dragons just love a good hoard. Here is mine. Two firsts and a second! I had to check the name card four times just to be sure, but then they gave me these to […]
You know I like quests. I’ve been on the British Yarn Quest and the Trouser Quest, but I didn’t even know I was on this particular quest till I finished it. I have submitted something to the Australian Sheep and Wool Show! Yay, oh yah, oh yodel, yodel yay! When my dear boy was about […]
