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Stories, updates and general woolgatherings……
Wool and Wolves: A Woodland Collection
One sunny Autumn day three girls took a trip to the woods on Mousehold Heath. One was very young and beautiful with long golden hair. One carried a tall standard lamp, an original 1960’s Parker Knoll chair and six bags…
October is Orange
This gorgeous knitted bobble hat is made in The Mercerie's cinnamon coloured British aran wool and is available as a downloadable pattern, or knitting kit, in our on-line shop. I adore the colour orange; the colour of autumn - pumpkins, golden…
Colour Stories: A Live Performance
The Mercerie’s new ‘Mystery Crochet’ course started last week and it began with a rather intense two hour colour workshop....... A 7pm the stage was set. The participants sat around a large round table and a collection of magazine cuttings…
Traces of History at Wolterton Hall
Last weekend I spent two days in the faded glory of Wolterton Hall in North Norfolk which was hosting the 13th Costume and Textiles Fair. Wolterton Hall is a fabulous Georgian Country House built in the 1720’s for Horatio Walpole,…
Knitted Apple Pullovers
On Sunday, as we drove away from Top Farm and our last camp of the summer, we stopped to help ourselves to some windfall Bramley apples and looked forward to Autumns first apple crumble. On Monday I retrieved the apples…
Lavender Bags and Honest Aromas
Our lavender was planted 5 summers ago, and each year I have planned to harvest some for lavender bags. Every year I have watched it bloom and die back, finally hacking back the dead stems in October. That’s nearly half…