Collaborations
Its always such a privilege to team up with yarn dyers to create small batch sets of yarn and bags. I choose to work with people who share a similar ethos in their work to mine, using non-superwash, plastic free yarns often locally sourced and always carefully produced.
Birdsong
In the Spring of 2021 Marina Skua and I got together to create this set of yarn and project bag inspired by the birdsong that was bringing us much joy after a long winter. I am sure many of you will already be aware of her work, but if you are not Marina is a yarn dyer and pattern designer based in Bath in the south of England. Marina dyed the most stunning yarn for the set, perfectly picking up the colours in the special tweed which was handwoven by Margaret of the Adabrock Weaving Company.
Highland Winter
This collaboration was to celebrate the winter of 2021. Julie of Black Isle Yarns is a local to me yarn dyer, working with locally sourced fleeces to create beautiful yarns which she then naturally dyes. We wanted to create a box that celebrated the colours that surround us during the winter months here in the Highlands of Scotland. So think of the cool greys and blues of the sky, lochs, sea and mountainsides, with touches of gold, rust and brown of the old foliage peaking through the snow. We also wanted the box to contain items that were made locally by ourselves and other makers, so as well as bags from me and yarn from Julie, they included other beautiful items to evoke feelings of the season.
Hibernate
This was another collaboration between myself and the lovely Marina Skua, from autumn 2021. Marina’s sense of colour and her ethos towards her work are something that I very much admire, and we share a love of autumn and autumnal colours. This time around we wanted to share that love of that season, and also celebrate the sense of wanting to hunker down, wrap up warm and slow down that this time of the year can bring. This set contained a sock size project bag from me, and not only a skein of yarn but also a beautiful hat pattern from Marina, to bring some cosy knitting joy as the evenings darkened.
Highland Meadow
Julie of Black Isle yarns and I worked together again in the early summer of 2022 to put together a bag and sock yarn set, featuring a sock size bag from me and a beautiful sock set from Julie, containing one full skein and two mini skeins of her sock yarn, Killen. The Highland Meadow printed fabric features the thistle, Scotland’s national flower, along with bees busily collecting pollen and is lined with a coordinating fabric. The print pattern is set symmetrically with a central line on both front and back of the bag. Julie’s yarn complimented the colours within the fabric beautifully.