PRICK YOUR FINGER'S ELECTRIC KOOL AID ACID TEST.

Allow me to introduce our new limited edition yarn. The Swaledale, Electric Kool Aid Acid Test. It's a DK yarn which we had spun at the mill and dyed in our Kitchen.
With over tones of Kool Aid's lime, cherry, grape, orange, and pink lemonade, the creamy hill top fibres of the Viking Herdwick's first cousin Swaledale, will give you luminating warmth on any trip to enlightenment.
The full story about the Merry Pranksters and America's cult fruit drink with added vitamin C, can be read in my column next month, in Simply Knitting Magazine.
( I write it every month, and keep forgetting to remind anyone. It's a brilliant publication because Alan Dart writes regular patterns)

SUSAN'S PIFCO ELECTRIC DARNER.

Susan Crawford, co author of Stitch In Time, and editor of Knitting- on- the- Net, made our day yesterday, by showing us her Pifco Electric Darner. I have a battery powered glowing darner designed for fixing holes in blackouts, which I love, but I had never seen a contraption as wonderful as this. It plugs into a normal bayonet lamp base.

UFO HANGERS.

The question of how to display saved Unfinished Objects in a presentable manner, to entice people to take them home, form relationships with them, solve the problems that arrested the project in the first place, and make new discoveries and masterpieces in the process, has been taxing me for some time.
My best solution so far is the 'Space ship shaped coat hanger' shown here. I cut them out of hardboard, found in a skip and painted them silver and gold. It wasn't the easiest job I've ever done.
The UFO Project Administration will be landing in Farnham Maltings this Saturday 28th February, for 'Unravel' with lots more spooky shaped pieces of knitting to seduce you into making things you never considered possible, so do please, come and visit us.

AI'S LOCKS.

Ai misses her boyfriend.
She left him behind, in Japan.
She cut her hair and he doesn't know.
We spun her locks, so she can knit a bow.
Which she will post, and he will wear.

Ai's hair was mixed with 25% Black Welsh Mountain for a fuller yarn.
Hair hand spun is £2.50 / 10g.

ROSEMARY'S LOW CALORIE CURLY WURLY.

How does one stop one's boyfriend eating too much chocolate?
Rosemary is conducting an experiment, by embroidering Richard's favourite vice, ensuring his sweetie jar is always full.
Almost as smooth, curly and chocolaty as the original - beautiful.

LUCY'S NEW MAT.

Lucy has been a good dog for Zarah, but as she heads into her golden years, she has developed some problems with bladder control. Zarah wanted to make Lucy a mat which could repeatedly go through the washing machine, and be tough enough to protect her wooden floors.
Crocheted carpet yarn is the answer. It is a rough pure wool, and any shrinkage in the wash, will make it even more resilliant to doggy dribbles.
We think Lucy looks grand on her mat, which matches her beard perfectly.
Carpet yarn 40p/10g.

CECILIA'S HANDSPUN EMBROIDERY THREAD.

We are delighted to present a new range of hand spun, hand dyed embroidery threads made by our friend Cecilia. Inspired by wild flowers of the countryside, they are spun in 2 ply 100% kid mohair, which gives a fluffy sheen.

These threads are almost too good to use. The spinning is out of this world. Anything made with this thread, will look beautiful.

I therefore thought it right to try and make an 'out of this world', hand spun embroidery thread display system, from model spinning wheels, stuck together and sprayed gold. The display will soon spin round, as I've just bought a Lazy Kate mechanism.

Each skein is approx 12m long and they cost £4.50, and come wrapped up in a bit of tissue paper.