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 [...]
That’s right: we’ve now got laceweight yarn in stock! Beautiful, soft and with a gentle lustre, this worsted-spun Wensleydale has just arrived. The wool comes from a Wensleydale flock on the Bedfordshire/Buckinghamshire border. The sheep graze in an old, traditionally managed Damson orchard. The Damson is traditional to this area and while large orchards once [...]
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 [...]
While I’m often tempted in swaps to go for the biggest packages first, I try instead to just grab whatever is on top. Today’s package was an envelope, and in the envelope was a note about the pattern I’m to receive! The pattern is ‘Traveling Woman’, which is pretty appropriate for someone who has gone [...]
In between a morning stitch and bitch at Scald End Farm (home to Fibre East) and the rugby (Cymru am byth!) I quickly opened the next parcel in my swap package. Today’s lovely offering was stitch markers! And not any stitch markers but special little ones, perfect for my many sock projects. These were made [...]
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 [...]
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