Category: Blog Posts

  • Cornish Summer Skies Scarf Weave-along

    Cornish Summer Skies Scarf Weave-along

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    Welcome to our first free weaving pattern blog post at Weft Blown! As a weaving teacher I’ve been wanting to create a series of patterns for people to weave in the comfort of their own home. So this will be the first pattern in this new series. One of the…

  • A Summer’s Day at John Arbon Textiles Mill

    A Summer’s Day at John Arbon Textiles Mill

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    Back in July this year we had a great morning learning about how John Arbon Textiles create their fantastic range of yarns and fibre. We’ve known John, Juliet and the team for a couple of years know after chatting to them at shows and using their yarn for our handwoven collection…

  • A Meteorological Weaving Journey

    A Meteorological Weaving Journey

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    Hello everyone and welcome back to the Weft Blown Blog and hello to all of you who have discovered Weft Blown over the past few months. This blog has been in hibernation over the past few months as we’ve been so busy keeping up with day-to-day running of Weft Blown that…

  • Weft Blown Rebooted

    Weft Blown Rebooted

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    To say it’s been busy at Weft Blown over the past year would be a bit of an understatement. So, as there are a lot more people out there who have found us I thought it’d be good to get back to basics and reintroduce ourselves and explain what we’re…

  • The Good, The Not So Great, and The Rather Exciting

    The Good, The Not So Great, and The Rather Exciting

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    As usual it’s been a while since the blog post and as always lots has been going on. At the end of June I had a stand at the 3D/2D Craft Tent at the Royal Highland Show in Edinburgh. This was a great event and it was great to meet…

  • From the Tay Bridge to a Wool BnB (via Skipton)

    From the Tay Bridge to a Wool BnB (via Skipton)

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    So I know I always start a blog by apologising for not writing sooner as I’ve been really busy. Well this time it has been the busiest couple of months I’ve had for a very long time and I’ve finally got a chance to tell you all about it. Tay…

  • Time to Play

    Time to Play

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    As usual its been busy at Weft Blown HQ as I have been working away on orders for lots of new stockists. I’m happy to say that all orders are complete for now and it’s been great fun to work with such a lovely range of galleries and shops. The orders…

  • Post-Edinburgh Yarn Fest……and Go Louet!

    Post-Edinburgh Yarn Fest……and Go Louet!

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    Well then, Edinburgh Yarn Festival has been and gone and was indeed a lot of fun. There was also a declaration at the very end of the last blog post that promised a follow up blog post on how it all went.  Well Ange is far too busy weaving like…

  • Getting excited about Edinburgh Yarn Festival

    Getting excited about Edinburgh Yarn Festival

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    For those of you that have read my last blog post you my remember that I said that I was heading off to Scotlands Trade Fair at the end of January. After a lot of hard work and stress I got there and it went fantastically well.  I am now…

  • That light bulb moment

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    I’m shattered after a busy week of being here, there and everywhere. The good news is that I have been able to get some things made, including a cowl that will be for sale in the very near future once it’s had it’s photo taken. I have been keeping up…