THE AAL OWER TOORIE
What a wonderful name for this years Wool Week hat, from this years Patron - The Guild of Spinners, Knitters, Weavers and Dyers, designed by Guild member, Hunter Rachel. And what a beautiful design, perfect for its name, with pattern in every row.
I had a quantity of my handspun yarn in natural colours so thought I might be able to put a kit together. It would have to be in natural colours. I had 2 light greys and white, and moorit, and, surprisingly I was working on a true black fleece. I started knitting, testing the shades of the colours and the length of yarn needed in each colour. It was good till I came to the moorit - it was too dark and made the toorie look very dull. I did however have a hank of a heather mix yarn, so I tried that - perfect.
I had my colours.
So, on to finish spinning the black yarn.
At the same time I had to decide on the length of yarn needed in each colour and see how many kits I could put together.
I had more than enough of the white and grey yarns, but not so much of the heather mix. Also I didn't exactly know how much of the black yarn I would get from the fleece. I cant exactly go out and buy more yarn, and true black fleece is hard to find!
With the black spinning done, the hank size decided, wound, washed and dried, and labeled. There was only the other 4 colours to wind in the hank sizes needed, and labelled.
Well not quite -
find the packaging
put the kits together
figure the postage
and write the blog and link to IG and FB to tell you all the kits are ready.
Oh and it is a limited number of kits - 18 in total.
...and isn't that crown beautiful.
Well done Rachel.
If you would like a kit in my yarn, send me an email to: shetlandhandspun@btinternet.com
put '2025 Toorie' in the subject line and say which country you live in so that I can tell you the shipping charge.
