Woolly Chic

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    • Helen Ingram

    Crochet Classes in 2017

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    Learn to Crochet Workshops

    Crochet at Hitchin Lavender

    Cadwell Farm, Ickleford, Hitchin, SG5 3UA

    Tuesday 29th August, 7pm – 9.30pm – Crochet Mandalas

    Thursday 7th September 1 – 3pm – Learn to Crochet Squares

    Cost – £20 per workshop includes all materials, tuition and refreshments.

    If you would like to learn to crochet or improve your crochet skills, Helen Ingram from Woolly Chic will be teaching the basics and beyond!

    For more information about Hitchin Lavender visit http://www.hitchinlavender.com/

    To book a place on either of these workshops please click below and pay a £3 deposit (multiple bookings may be charged postage, which will also be deducted from the total workshop fee)

    Treble Crochet Workshop and Pop Up Wool Shop

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    Back in September at the Nourish Wholefood Cafe, Letchworth Healthy Living Centre, SG6 3NA. Free Entry. Take part in the Sixty Million Trebles Project and help to make blankets for some of the 60 million refugees and homeless people across the world. Beginners welcome!

    Our team 60 Million Trebles blanket is growing and will soon be the size of a single bed blanket! Thanks to everyone who has made squares!

    The Sixty Million Trebles project

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    I have just finished making a 36 inch square Granny Square blanket for the Sixty Million Trebles Project – whatever is that, I hear you ask?

    The UN at the end of 2015 estimated that there are 60 Million refugees Worldwide. So the aim of the Sixty Million Treble group is to create a yarn blanket. containing 60 million trebles, one treble for every life.  This blanket will then be used to yarn bomb somewhere in London highlighting the cause.  After the event the squares will then be taken apart and half of the blankets will go to UK homeless charities and the rest sent to the charity Hand in Hand For Syria.

    The project requires crocheted squares each measuring 36 inch square.  They can be any pattern and any yarn weight but they must come to that size.  All in all, they need 13, 050 36 inch squares.  My blanket had 41 rounds, which was 10.332 trebles in total!

    If you would like to be part of this project you can join their Facebook group or come along to a special workshop on Thursday 27th April at the Nourish Wholefood Cafe in Letchworth between 10.30 and 12.30

    Visit to the Halifax Spinning Mill

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    Over half term, my husband and I took the kids up to York for what was a fantastic mini-holiday, and I managed to squeeze in a visit to the Halifax Spinning Mill on the way home to see my new wool being spun.  Paul, who owns and runs the mill gave us a tour and we could see the whole process of yarn production from the raw fleece being carded through to spinning and twisting the plies of yarn together. It was so exciting!  This new Woolly Chic yarn is a blend of 50% Wensleydale and 50% Pembrokeshire fleece, which I hope will be an even more luxurious yarn with a slight lustre when knitted.