The Granny Square Workshop

While snooping in my knitting corner, I discovered my stash of advent calendar mini skeins I spun a couple of years ago and was suddenly taken by an urge to make something mini. 

I had so much fun during the last knitting workshop, that I was immediately inspired to prepare for the crochet workshop my student expressed the wish to attend.

The Skudde sheep wool was very sticky to spin, and I remember hoping not all the bundles will be so horrible, otherwise my pre-Christmas time would pretty much suck. Spinning and plying 20 grams of wool a day on top of a fulltime job can be pretty demanding - but I did it in the name of fibre! When I stick my nose in the stash bag and inhale that wonderful smell, it takes me back to the lukewarm December days of 2022.

It’s a very rustic wool, and the granny square would look wonderful with a candle sitting on top. I put it under the hazelnuts bowl sitting on my coffee table and it looks pretty cozy, despite having finished it with a bit of Herdwick wool, the 6th Advent bundle - the coarsest wool I ever touched.

At the same time as finding out how a granny square looks like in this rough hand spun, I want to show what can be done using the new Moomin yarn I added to my shop a few days ago - excellent merino wool to wear on the skin in the colours of Moomin Valley - all in one square. Also, I thought this came from Finland but it is actually made in Romania, the land that birthed and raised me.