The North Pennines Weardale Gansey

Hello Knitters!

We now have copies of the North Pennines Weardale Gansey available to buy, price £3.50.  For those of you hoping to pay through Paypal we hope that this facility will be available within a few days.  In the meantime you can post a cheque made payable to "North Pennines Wool Group" and post c/o Slack House Farm, Ireshopeburn, Weardale DL13 1HL

The North Pennines Weardale Gansey is a very complex pattern, suitable only for very experienced knitters.

The North Pennines Teesdale Gansey, a simpler design, will follow....

Good wishes for 2013

The North Pennines Wool Group wishes you all a very happy 2013.  Let's hope it's a warm and woolly one - and perhaps a little drier than the past few years.

Our news for 2013 is that we hope to launch our two winning North Pennines gansey designs in the spring.  We'll keep you posted!

North Pennines Wool Event

Thank you to everyone who ventured to Upper Weardale for the second North Pennines Wool Event.  We hope you all had a good time.  For those of you who didn't make it, here are a few moments from the weekend.

The fleece auction.

Drop spindling - in the sunshine!

Natural Dyeing demonstrations.

And lots of goodies to buy:

Other attractions involved a fabulous demonstration of fleece quality and grading by Stephen Kitson from the BWMB, peg loom weaving demonstrations, eight shaft weaving demonstrations and spinning demonstrations using a big wheel.  Read more about the Wool Event here.

The Wool Event also saw the prize giving of the North Pennines Gansey competition - follow its journey on this blog.  The local Mule and Hebridean wool is currently being spun into yarn to be knitted into the winning design.  Ultimately the North Pennines Gansey will be available to buy in kit form.  Stay tuned!