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  <description><![CDATA[That green is lovely. Plus you already have the other colors in your sweater collection!
I'm no knitter but I love listening to you talk about your projects - I look forward to every Friday and it's my break-time at work! Thanks!]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:40:25 +0100</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[I love swatching for its own sake and not necessarily for a pattern. I learn so much about different yarns that way. Last winter I must have knit over 100 tiny swatches mostly from handspun yarns, and I ended up making a breed display for my local fiber guild (picture attached). As for what yarn to use; use your hand-dyed cotton! You can always use the lambswool another time.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:38:36 +0100</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Most impressive and a great example to us all! I am not a knitter - I crochet, and usually Scrumble (see the books by Sylvia Cosh and James Walters from the 1980s) - and, as you describe yourself, I too have never been in the habit of  planning things out in advance - serendipity often provides a not necessarily expected but interesting outcome. But not always. And there is a certain reluctance to undo once done, so any original vague intention at the outset often evolves with the 'work in progress'.  I very much admire your reformed approach but I'm not convinced this particular leopard is about to change her spots, at least not any time soon; my approach to most things is too chaotic and random, so it's an excellent example I ought to follow...

As for your choice of yarn for the cardigan it's lovely to use own-dyed because you've been involved in the entire process. But I can't get away from wool as top favourite, it's just so lovely to work with and wear. So I'd go for the tweedy lambswool. That said I've finally just begun to spin some of the undercoat from our Welsh Springer Spaniel (now coming up to his eleventh birthday, so I've been collecting for a while). And as a mindful activity, as well as being more easily portable than a spinning wheel, (currently inaccessible but that's another story) I'm using a drop spindle. The fibre is unbelievably fine and the yarn is so soft, but nothing has the 'bounce' and elasticity of wool. What it will eventually become, assuming I spin it all, is another matter, a story for the future.

Thank you for your inspirational website and videos. They've got me back out of a crafting desert and into making things again.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:06:30 +0100</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[<div class="commentreply">In reply to <span class="commentlink" data-id="1482">Alison Grave</span></div>? Should have been a star!]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:58:45 +0100</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Oh my goodness! You are transformed!! I am not a swatcher, so many things do not get past my imagination as I don’t want to waste wool and I know without swatching and hashing on (i.e just doing it, a good Fife saying) it probably will end badly. Perhaps a combination of Impatience and perfectionism?
I’m now going to have the first of my Friday treats and will watch your YouTube video and look forward to our studio chat at 5, many thanks for everything?]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:56:34 +0100</pubDate>
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