Pretty Nostalgic – the independent, British lifestyle magazine has selected our new iPad covers for its British Makers Christmas Gift Guide. Needless to say we’re thrilled to bits here at Nude Ewe HQ! Our fun tweed iPad covers are the latest product from our new partnership with London Cloth Company. LCC is based in Hackney [...]
This is Nancy. She’s our cute-as-a-button logo, which you can now make and customise with our fabulous new pattern. Nancy was created exclusively for the Nude Ewe by blogger and Red Heart Yarns designer Nancy Anderson, aka ‘Miss Julep’. And since this woolly little girl is so perfectly cheeky we just had to name the pattern [...]
Bedfordshire’s crafters are being called on to get busy making personal gifts for the Olympians and Paralympians coming to Bedford this summer. Over 200 athletes from 14 countries will be hosted here leading up to the Games. Under the Woolsack project every athlete participating in the Games is being offered a cushion hand made and [...]
We’re thrilled to offer for sale a limited quantity of handmade British wool herringbone tweed cushions. The Lleyn and Black Welsh Mountain wool fabric has been hand woven in Hackney on antique looms by the London Cloth Company. As it turns out, London Cloth Company is almost as big a fan of British wool as [...]
If you look at our website you’ll notice we don’t actually offer any Norfolk Horn yarn. Never fear: we soon will! This small privately owned flock of about 20 ewes is currently growing our next Nude Ewe offering. The Norfolk is an ancient East Anglian breed, and local images of white, horned sheep date back [...]
When we started The Nude Ewe, we needed a flock of sheep to ‘experiment’ on: a flock whose owner wouldn’t be upset if the project failed and we weren’t able to give them a return on the fleeces. Enter the Wildlife Trust, or more specifically the Bedfordshire office of the Trust which covers the three [...]
We were horrified to read the article below. In recent years sheep have occasionally been found butchered in fields, and it’s now happened to one of our graziers. The flock affected is based at Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve in Lewknor, Oxfordshire. These Beulah Speckled Face sheep graze the reserve’s chalk grasslands, and produce our [...]
From Bedfordshire on Sunday When Heather Webb sees a flock of sheep, she has visions of fleeces and yarns of wool. That’s because she’s spent the last three years building up a project that ploughs the profits from sheep shearing back into the environment. Please continue reading HERE.
Last week I got to spend an afternoon with the Nude Ewe Wensleydales. Lambing season is upon us and I went out to film and ‘help’ with the scanning. The Wensleydales are a small flock and normally graze in a big old Damson orchard on the Bedfordshire/ Buckinghamshire border. The Damson is a variety of [...]
From The Morning Call In a new exhibit opening Sunday, knitting and crocheting are used to explain complex mathematical formulas and to portray scientific forms — from fish embryos to molecules. The exhibit, “Sticks, Hooks and the Mobius: Knit and Crochet Go Cerebral,” runs through Feb. 5 at Lafayette College’s Williams Center Gallery. Please continue [...]
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