Black Sheep http://barbaratate.com - the new home of barbaratate.com and douglastate.com Sat, 19 May 2012 00:38:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 18/10/2012 http://barbaratate.com/?p=2016 http://barbaratate.com/?p=2016#comments Sat, 19 May 2012 00:23:54 +0000 Barbara http://barbaratate.com/?p=2016 Ishbel is growing fast – the yarn is silk and cashmere, hence the shine.

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A new knit – Ishbel by Ysolda Teague in Posh Yarn Audrey Lace.  I love Posh Yarn’s dyelot names – this one is called “What a woman” – reminds me of the spaceship names in Iain M Banks’s sci fi Culture novels.

Ishbel is here

Posh Yarn is here

 

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(It doesn’t have  a subsidence problem, the photos are slightly wonky!)

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