May 15
Hello everyone, happy weekend! Its still pretty cold here in Shetland but we are hoping better weather will be coming soon, this week we are back with our coverage of our Wirsit Inspo (wool inspiration) posts from our Facebook and Instagram posts through March, April and May:
So that takes up to our most recent post, we will post another round up again in a few weeks, we hope these posts give you some inspiration! Happy Knitting!
May 8
Hello everyone, happy weekend – today we are sharing here more of our weekly Wirsit Inspo (wool inspiration) pictures that we post on Facebook and Instagram, these cover what we posted in February and March so next week we’ll be back with rest of March til now:
We hope you like seeing these posts as much as we like putting them together, they are to give you ideas for Fair Isle, colourwork, stripes, lace – anything. It shows how much our colour palette is inspired by our surroundings here in Shetland. Happy knitting!
Feb 12
Hello everyone,
As promised on our last Wirsit Inspo blog here are all the inspiration pictures we have posted on our Instagram and Facebook. Every week I (Ella) scour my photo archives for pictures from all seasons and match them up with 2ply Jumper Weight (mainly due to the shade range but I am always looking to use other ranges too!)
So here they are and as long as you keep enjoying them we will keep posting them:
Puffin in Fair Isle: FC21, 54, 91, 125, 1, 77 and FC12.
Wintery Walks, Lerwick. Shades 1, 75, FC34, FC38 and FC44.
Laburnum and Aliums, Lerwick Flower Park, Summer 2020. Shades 23, 123, FC24, FC11 and FC12.
2020 Lerwick Up Helly Aa Galley, shades 1, 121, 1403, 132 and FC41.
Stenness Haaf Station, Eshaness. Shades 1A, 90, 142, 78 and 54.
Sandy banks of a Shetland Beach, Yell. Shades FC15, FC12, 121, FC43 and 202.
Wild and Windy Seas, Lerwick. Shades 1280, FC61, FC35, FC41 and 81.
Sea Pinks on the Rocks, Fair Isle. Shades 1, 54, 81, FC11, 52 and 1284.
Ronas Hill on Boxing Day, shades 1A, 14, 121, FC55 and FC44.
Kegord Trees in the Summer, shades 1, FC11, FC12, 82 and 4.
A wintery day on the Westside, shades 14, FC61, 1281, 122 and FC44.
Wintery Shetland Pony Foal, shades 122, FC44, 5, FC24, 14 and 1.
I hope you enjoyed that, happy knitting!
Nov 20
Hello everyone, If you follow our Instagram or Facebook page you will have seen over the past few months we have started doing weekly ‘Wirsit Inspo’ posts. basically, its where we take an image of something in Shetland and put a palette together inspired by the picture. I have mainly done them in 2ply Jumper Weight but have done one in 2ply Lace and I’m going to try and use more ranges too. When we post them they always get really good feedback so I thought we would share them here too:
Seaweed at the Shetland Museum Slipway. 2ply Jumper Weight top to bottom: 2. 1281, FC38, FC44, FC11
Seapinks and Sea, Northmavine. 2ply Jumper Weight top to bottom: FC61, 203, 121, 1283, FC12, 4
Wool Bales. 2ply Jumper Weight top to bottom: 81, 54, 1281, 2, 202
Peerie Boat, Shetland Museum. 2ply Jumper Weight top to bottom: 202, 66, 125, 16, 122, FC14
Scalloway Haa. 2ply Jumper Weight top to bottom: 3, 27, 1, 16, 101
Stratsraad Lehmkuhkl, Lerwick Harbour. 2ply Jumper Weight top to bottom: 36, 21, FC47, 91, 66, 1
Fading Heather, Nesting. 2ply Jumper Weight top to bottom: FC12, 80, FC38, 1284, FC21, 16
Sunset. 2ply Lace Weight top to bottom: L63, L15, L53, L96, L95
Wintery Beach. 2ply Jumper Weight top to bottom: 203, FC39, FC47, FC21, 2
The Lodberrie and Bains Beach. 2ply Jumper Weight top to bottom: 77, 54, FC61, 1281, 32
Seapinks, Sumburgh Head. 2ply Jumper Weight top to bottom: 81, FC41, FC11, FC6 and 1A
As we head into winter here (the sun set at 3.22pm yesterday..) it’s great to look back at pictures from seasons past, I will post them here every couple of months but you can follow the #wirsitinspo hashtag on Instagram to keep up with them as we post them, hope this has given you some inspiration,
happy knitting!
Ella
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