Published August 11, 2023

Shopcast 202: Fair Isle, The Fair, and Fairly Fun Knitting

By Caitlin Johnson

On this episode, Corinne and Maggie have quite a few knitting projects to show! Corinne also shares some of her favorite sweater designs and they share what they love about woolly wool. What else is new?? Caitlin joins us with some knitting and spinning updates, plus a visit to the knitting entries at her state fair. Rachel on Fair Isle also shares an update from her croft. New in the shop are Harris Tweed Project Bags, West Yorkshire Spinners Country Birds colors, Woolly Mammoth limited edition Zwartbles/Blue Texel yarn, and more!

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00:00 Intro

00:47 Welcome, Weather, Wool & Winner #1

10:04 Crochet Blanket and an FO

20:34 So Many WIPs

34:51 Historical Knits- Sweaters & a Cowl

41:33 Caitlin- Tanks, T’s & the FAIR

58:13 Harris Tweed & WYS NEW colors

1:07:46 More from the Shop

1:15:13 Fair Isle Postcard

Connect with us

If you were one of the TWO giveaway winner in this episode, please send us an email to info@thewoollythistle.com with “WINNER” in the subject line.

What We're Wearing

New TWT Fair Isle Joy T-shirts

Maggie’s WIPs

Crochet Granny Blanket from Lucy of Attic24

Paul Klee Sweater by Midori Hirose in J & S and some Jamieson of Shetland Spindrift

Pattern

Project

Swatches in WoolDreamers Mota for her sweater KAL project

Lindal Tørkle by Wöldten in Making Tracks colorway Winter Berries and Savage Heart Farm

DRK Everyday Cowl in handspun

Pattern-

Corinne’s FO

Halligarth by Gudrun Johnston in Rambler, Trillium

Pattern-

Yarn

Corinne’s WIPs

Latvian Mittens

Historical Knits

Vanilla Sweater by Corinne

Kit-

Vanilla Fluff Kit-

Victory Cardigan by Corinne

Kit-

Dunrobin Kits

Sweater KAL

Sign up for the Sweater KAL starting August 25th

Caitlin’s Segment

Argil by Clare Lakewood (from Pom-Pom Quarterly) in WoolDreamers Saona

Pattern-

Yarn-

Wool & Berries by Joji Locatelli

Air Tee by Ozetta

Lakes Tee by Ozetta

Three Waters Farm spinning fiber

Spark Cardigan by Andrea Mowry

Shop News

Harris Tweed Project Bags

West Yorkshire Spinners

Scandinavian Sweaters by Kristin Wiola Ødegård

Fishermen’s Knits

Norwegian Sweaters and Jackets

-Coming Soon- The Woolly Mammoth Limited Edition

Daughter of a Shepherd Drover Sock Yarn

12 Days of Christmas boxes pre-order starts August 15th!

Rachel’s Fair Isle Postcard

Find her at-

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/barkland_croft/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Bee-Croft-Fair-Isle-101722075395295/

Website: https://www.bee-croft.co.uk/ Includes “Adopt a Sheep” page!

Support her at: www.ko-fi.com/barklandcroft or

www.patreon.com/barklandcroft

Elgin Sock in Croft by West Yorkshire Spinners

Fontainebleau from the Knitter Magazine. Unavailable on Ravelry.

We’d love to see any of your FO’s from our yarn or patterns as well! Use #thewoollythistle to have your FO included in a future shopcast!

Thank you for watching! If you go out, take your knitting!

Video editing: Intelligent Octopus www.intelligentoctopus.com

1 Comment

Thank you for another great shopcast! Time spent with you all brightens my day and inspires me so much! I rematch many episodes and love every single one. The Scandinavian sweater book is calling my name! I look forward to trying Finullgarn and perhaps the Annajakke sweater kit! Thank you again, your work doing these shop sets is so appreciated!

Jayna • August 14, 2023