Somehow I
have managed to miss out the most exciting day of the first week of our holiday
on Unst!! the Friday when I went
spinning with the ladies at Unst Heritage Centre. The morning was spent at
Hagdale Horse Mill a fascinating place to visit , then lunch at one of our
favourite beaches – Norwick. Then I went to the Heritage Centre and found two
delightful ladies with their wheels, lots of knitted lace to look at, newspaper
cuttings, knitting patterns, books of Shetland Knitting etc and they were going to
demonstrate and help with some techniques. I had my fold up Ashford Joy wheel
with me and this was an item of interest. During the afternoon, I tried a
Shetland Wheel ( hard work with a very small wheel) and Minnie tried my Joy. It
was great fun. Several other visitors arrived during the afternoon and we
learnt a great cast on from Ann. I only had kebab sticks with me (from my shoe
box hand spindle lazy kate) but they worked well.
This is
Annie using a knitting belt and showing us the cast on.
I was taken
up with spinning but several of the visitors learnt lace stitches and were
delighted to be started off on scarf knitting.
It was a
wonderful afternoon and it went far too quickly.
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