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I’ve been making doll knitwear for my critter friends from my handspuns! The bobble textured & grey shawls are actually a headscarf pattern – the buttons on the edges allow them to also be worn as a headscarf/neckerchief by a human. The green infinity scarf I just free-handed. 🐐 Rupert 🐰 Freyja 🐴 Idris Dolls…
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This is the finished rectangular shawl I made for the 2024 Royal Easter Show competition. Honestly, the colours are not represented well in photos at all! This is made using my ‘sunburnt country’ handspun spun which is marled 2ply yarn burnt orange/yellow/red plyed with a teal blue/green. I intentionally made the shawl longer so that…
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I noticed that the Royal Easter Show had a category for an item made completely from handspun. So I did something crazy & spent December/Jan crocheting up the shawl my ‘Sunburnt Country’ handspun was destined for to enter the category. Regardless of how successful this piece will be in the competition, this shawl came out…
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I did it! I just put in all my entries for the 2024 Royal Easter Show. I’m entering all but one category under the Spinning Arts & Craft schedule; the dark purple in the handspun category, other yarns are going up against wheel spinners in respective laceweight & regular weight categories, the garment in the…