BuckyE wrote: And it was in North Ronaldsay on that first trip I finally found the sweater I had been longing for: handknitted of undied Rare Breeds wools, marvelous shades of charcoal and wood ash. Loie says I look like a standing stone when I wear it.
I take that as a compliment.
Haha!
North Ronaldsay's great, isn't it? Did you fly out fot the day, or did you stay there? Such a bleak - yet uttely welcoming! - place... I presume the "rare breeds" that the wool came from were the seaweed-eating variety that dominate the shores..? Bless 'em! :D
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