Thank you for this great overview video of Shetland Wool week. I had the opportunity to go on a knitting tour of Scotland several years ago and visited Shetland and fell in love. Went to Uradale Farms and brought back their lovely wool and made several projects. Visiting Scotland is a must for every knitter.
Thanks for showing your time in Shetland, an amazing place for many reasons. Are you sure that you didnt take a sheep or two home with you 😃 🐑 🐑 🐑 Here in Australia at Bendigo we have the largest Sheep and Wool show in the Southern Hemisphere. Accommodation is booked out a year in advance for miles around. It is 3 days of woolly wonderfullness 😊
Wow! Any chance you might be interested in a Canadian dyer and tablet weaver coming to teach? Also for the record I wanted to take all the sheep home and all the miniature ponies… they were all so glorious!!!
I had not seen a warp-weighted tablet weaving loom before (full sized fabric ones aside). Amazing to see and a little funny to be teaching on them on the fly.
Thanks for this overview of going to Shetland Wool Week. As a fellow Canadian who's ancestry is 75% Scottish, I plan to go one day! And I have enjoyed the Shetland TV series also. 👍🏻👍🏻
Sweet! Ok so they announce the dates at the very end of Sept each year - pretty much as soon as that happens you want to book. Most folks booked rooms in Lerwick to make it easier to get to most of the classes but the organizers do a decent job of organizing classes around Shetland so in the end I am glad we booked a little cabin about 20 mins outside and had lovely peace and quiet each night. If you get the chance, definitely take any class offered by Elizabeth Jonestone. She’s a wonderful Elder Shetlanders and master spinner, lace and Faire Isle knitter. A real local character. I hope you have better luck getting a sheep or miniature pony home than I did! :)
@@WildcraftDyeing It likely won't be next year, as one of my daughters is planning to get married in early October, but maybe 2026. And I had a Shetland pony when I was a kid, so I can't complain too much. If you want some Shetland sheep, there are quite a few in Manitoba. Some farmers brought in some new genetics from the UK last year, as most of the Shetland sheep in Canada were descended from one herd that was brought to Canada earlier in the 20th century. 😊
@katherinedelorme5009 nice! Every kid wants a Shetland pony growing up! I am also considering heading back for 2026 to teach dyeing with some of their natural dyers (which odd coincidence are invasive out here in BC). I married a flatlander but he’s from Saskatoon. I just have to accept the watermelon Roughrider helmet thing a few times a year.
What a wonderful place to have a Wool week. I don't do spinning or dyeing for my weaving projects but appreciate how they've kept their traditions alive. Also how they have strict conservation laws and rules in place. Thanks for taking us along. 😊👍👍👍
I even slowed the video down but all those pieces still whizzed past and I felt seasick. I understand that you wanted to show as much as you could, but I ended up seeing almost nothing.
Sorry - that’s totally fair. I end up feeling quite nervous to record videos in public but really I need to take a breath and record more slowly. I agree - it’s too fast.
@ These things are so difficult to judge. The way our eyes move and perceive things is quite different from how the camera ‘sees’. Plus I’m sure you were excited to see that huge collection of knits, and you just want to see everything.
I was super excited but I can see that it’s too fast. I’m sorry! Now you’ll just need to go there and see for yourself. They also have roadside cake fridges which really deserves their own video.
No, there was the one breeder of Shelties, but I mainly saw Rough Collies on the crofts and farms and a couple of mixed border collies (all working dogs). No Scotties, no hounds… not much else really.
Ahh ok, that makes sense. I dug into it a little and came across this “• a Gaelic name, once regularly used by the Highlanders and Islanders, but now forgotten and only found in dictionaries. They used crottle as a general term for lichens” from www.scotlandguides.org/lichens-in-scotland.html#google_vignette . I will endeavour to use crottle again. I’d like to learn more Gaelic.
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Thank you for this great overview video of Shetland Wool week. I had the opportunity to go on a knitting tour of Scotland several years ago and visited Shetland and fell in love. Went to Uradale Farms and brought back their lovely wool and made several projects. Visiting Scotland is a must for every knitter.
Could not agree more! It’s a treasure. I just wish I could have brought some of the miniature ponies home. 🐎 🏡
Thanks for showing your time in Shetland, an amazing place for many reasons. Are you sure that you didnt take a sheep or two home with you 😃 🐑 🐑 🐑
Here in Australia at Bendigo we have the largest Sheep and Wool show in the Southern Hemisphere.
Accommodation is booked out a year in advance for miles around. It is 3 days of woolly wonderfullness 😊
Wow! Any chance you might be interested in a Canadian dyer and tablet weaver coming to teach? Also for the record I wanted to take all the sheep home and all the miniature ponies… they were all so glorious!!!
Ahhhh, what beautiful items!
Those were some amazing colours you got in the dye class.
I'd not seen the Shetland looms before with their warp weighting.
I had not seen a warp-weighted tablet weaving loom before (full sized fabric ones aside). Amazing to see and a little funny to be teaching on them on the fly.
Oh I loved the lichen as well. I took lots of pictures of it and the rocks and ruins. Thank you . Shetland is a treat! And Wool Week gift.
Agreed! I want to go back again.
@ me too. I went last year-2023. Magical.
Thanks for this overview of going to Shetland Wool Week. As a fellow Canadian who's ancestry is 75% Scottish, I plan to go one day! And I have enjoyed the Shetland TV series also. 👍🏻👍🏻
Sweet! Ok so they announce the dates at the very end of Sept each year - pretty much as soon as that happens you want to book. Most folks booked rooms in Lerwick to make it easier to get to most of the classes but the organizers do a decent job of organizing classes around Shetland so in the end I am glad we booked a little cabin about 20 mins outside and had lovely peace and quiet each night. If you get the chance, definitely take any class offered by Elizabeth Jonestone. She’s a wonderful Elder Shetlanders and master spinner, lace and Faire Isle knitter. A real local character. I hope you have better luck getting a sheep or miniature pony home than I did! :)
@@WildcraftDyeing It likely won't be next year, as one of my daughters is planning to get married in early October, but maybe 2026. And I had a Shetland pony when I was a kid, so I can't complain too much. If you want some Shetland sheep, there are quite a few in Manitoba. Some farmers brought in some new genetics from the UK last year, as most of the Shetland sheep in Canada were descended from one herd that was brought to Canada earlier in the 20th century. 😊
@katherinedelorme5009 nice! Every kid wants a Shetland pony growing up! I am also considering heading back for 2026 to teach dyeing with some of their natural dyers (which odd coincidence are invasive out here in BC). I married a flatlander but he’s from Saskatoon. I just have to accept the watermelon Roughrider helmet thing a few times a year.
What a wonderful place to have a Wool week. I don't do spinning or dyeing for my weaving projects but appreciate how they've kept their traditions alive. Also how they have strict conservation laws and rules in place. Thanks for taking us along. 😊👍👍👍
Any time! What kind of weaving do you do?
@WildcraftDyeing I'm still somewhat a beginner, taking classes for about 6 years. Table runners, dish towels, and experiments.
@marinamartinez6886 that’s awesome! 😎
Amazing, thank you for sharing. I'd love to visit, it is on my bucket list
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How did you resist harvesting just a few of those lichens? You have a lot of integrity!
Awesome! I have Highland and Orkney roots myself (as far as I am aware!). Will you be going/teaching again next year?
I’m considering going back for 2026. It’s pure magic!
I even slowed the video down but all those pieces still whizzed past and I felt seasick. I understand that you wanted to show as much as you could, but I ended up seeing almost nothing.
Sorry - that’s totally fair. I end up feeling quite nervous to record videos in public but really I need to take a breath and record more slowly. I agree - it’s too fast.
@ These things are so difficult to judge. The way our eyes move and perceive things is quite different from how the camera ‘sees’. Plus I’m sure you were excited to see that huge collection of knits, and you just want to see everything.
I was super excited but I can see that it’s too fast. I’m sorry! Now you’ll just need to go there and see for yourself. They also have roadside cake fridges which really deserves their own video.
Did you see any scottie dogs there?
No, there was the one breeder of Shelties, but I mainly saw Rough Collies on the crofts and farms and a couple of mixed border collies (all working dogs). No Scotties, no hounds… not much else really.
I agree - video images panned by so quickly it actually made me dizzy. So I couldn’t watch it.
Yeah… fair enough. Sounds like I should head back and try again. Thinking for 2026. :)
We don’t have lakes, we have lochs.
Fair point - my apologies. Yes you do and they are very nice lochs.
Do you happen to know the Gaelic word for lichens? I tried to look it up.
@@WildcraftDyeing it might be “crotal”
Ahh ok, that makes sense. I dug into it a little and came across this “• a Gaelic name, once regularly used by the Highlanders and Islanders, but now forgotten and only found in dictionaries. They used crottle as a general term for lichens” from www.scotlandguides.org/lichens-in-scotland.html#google_vignette . I will endeavour to use crottle again. I’d like to learn more Gaelic.
Very interesting but the camera moved to fast and made me feel dizzy so had to give up watching.
Me to . I even tried it in lower speed.