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September 2008

Autumn 2008

If you’re reading this as a family “blog”, rather than as a knitter then I send you best wishes for a cosy winter.

I’m writing this in the park at Waldemarsudde, the splendid art museum overlooking the city of Stockholm.

I’m here for a week to visit friends, revisit Handarbetetsvänner where I learned to weave, and travel out to the island of Fjärdlång, where I once spent an idyllic summer.

My friends Kerstin and Eivor are enthusiastic knitters and especially recommend Marias Garn which we visited on the south side of the city and Garn Studio for exciting Nordic patterns.

Simon is well into his Peruvian experience with visits to Machu Picchu and Arequipa.

His biggest problem is that he is so much taller than anyone who was meant to travel by bus in Peru!!

You can read about his travels and his digestive adjustments on Simon’s Blog

Jill continues to advise on Marketing for the website from her home in Galway where her own website My Kids Time takes her out and about with my granddaughters Blythe and Fern.

Chris, our webmeister, has just received a promotion at his work in Alabama, a catalyst for challenge and change.

I so appreciate the communication we have via the website.

I hope this finds you happily knitting and thinking up projects for your stash to brighten the winter months.

Our new Arran pattern is a response to requests for a waistcoat version of our famous Arran Sweater.

We hope you’ll add it to your collection of our Knitting Patterns and enjoy the warmth it provides, once while you sit by the fire and knit and twice when you wear it.

Lynn Gray Ross

July 2008

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30 years ago I was fascinated by all things Latin American.

This began with a road trip from Chicago down through Mexico to the Guatemalan border. My fascination with weaving began when I took an art course at the Instituto Allende in Guanajuato province

However, with 2 young children and a weaving studio to run on Arran, it wasn’t feasible to think of going back there any time soon.

I did, however, design the Scottish Inca Hat for handspun wool, which was much appreciated by local mountaineers and mothers of small children for the warm earflaps and the ties which held the hat on in windy conditions.

Simon, my youngest son who wasn’t yet born when the hat pattern was created graduated from Aberdeen University two weeks ago with an honours degree and has gone to work for Peru for Less in Lima on a graduate apprenticeship.

Full circle and small world.

To celebrate, the Scottish Inca Hat and the Child’s Scottish Inca Hat are our patterns on offer this month, with the instructions for a version you can knit with your handspun yarns.

They are available for you to download at a cost of £2.99 from our pattern page.

Which smoothly introduces our other new page on the website: Knitting with Handspun

the first part of a collection of hints, thoughts and experience from my archives to show you how to get the most from your handspun yarns.

You may want to bookmark this page to keep up-to-date as we gradually make information available to you from our early experiments with the additional wisdom of hindsight.

We’d like to offer you the opportunity to take part in our

KNITTING SURVEY

As a thank you we will send you a free pattern of your choice from our collection if you give us your email address. Our privacy policy will apply to any replies to the survey and we will not use the information for any other purpose.

THIS OFFER IS AVAILABLE UNTIL AUGUST 31, 2008

All our web pages have been updated since the last Newsletter so have fun browsing and downloading the free hints & techniques and reading more about our beautiful island.

Best wishes

Lynn Gray Ross

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