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my jumperrrrrr #myjumper
i have finally made it up to putting the sleeves on hold and starting the ridiculously complicated body colourwork! this is the 7th or 8th time i've ripped back and restarted from scratch...... most recent rip back i'd made it all the way up to counting stitches before i put the sleeves on hold😭😭😭
pattern: the melville sweater by sarahbeth hall (ravelry)
yarn: 100g (~384m) hand-dyed 4ply polwarth wool, dye lot #406 from tarndie. i bought the wool from their farm shop, so it may not be listed online.
rambling about tarndie under the cut:
THEEEE ORIGINAL BREEDERS OF THE POLWARTH SHEEP, which was the first sheep bred to adapt to the australian climate!!! they've been my favourite wool shop for about five years now, and i was lucky enough to get to visit (and bankrupt myself) the homestead and in-person shop in rural victoria, about 120 km from Naarm melbourne. and you guys. cannot overstate how awesome it was. it's a family-run business, so you have book a 30 minute visit to the shop in advance, but i got to stay for two hourd and yap about the history and the wool and have hot chocolate and feed the poddy lamb. as of august year, it is and has been the ONLY yarn company in australia to harvest and manufacture their wool within the country (although i think they now have to manufacture it in Aotearoa as well now). for context, there is One industrial wool mill left in australia, because at some point during the 20th century, Big Australian Wool decided it would be much more profitable to move manufacturing to overseas factories and exploit the labour of impoverished south-east aisan people. this is why wool marked as australian almost always has 'Made In [S.E.A. country]', because it's cheaper to ship wool overseas for manufacturing and then shipping it back to australia to sell than it is to do so at home. hashtag yikes. anyway!!!! tarndie has BEAUTIFUL wool it's a delight to knit and crochet with and BEAUTIFUL people involved in it. this isnt sponsored im just super super hyped about them so if you want to buy fantastic wool you'll be supporting a small rural australian business run by a queer man in doing so
