Hello Everyone,
Thanks for all the comments and feedback on our Wool Week videos and content – it was a weird week for us, we are used to a totally different experience which definitely doesn’t adhere to the current rules so we, like many others in Shetland, tried to take Wool Week online!
We knew Olivers Woolstore talk would be one of the most missed events by visitors so that was top of our list to film:
We also filmed a video of all our yarn ranges to try and give you a semi-being in the shop experience:
And we asked two of our great Wool Week teachers Hazel Tindall and Alison Rendall to film their classes which we usually host during the week:
We also had videos documenting the production of our yarns:
As well as some exclusive videos from the Campaign for Wool, Vispring and West Yorkshire Spinners:
During the week we also had Anne from the ‘I Thought I Knew How’ podcast using our new upstairs space to host a few interviews including this one with local knitter and designer Janette Budge:
We also posted a couple of blogs from local designer Lesley Smith and artist Vivian Ross-Smith in case you missed those.
This is just a selection but to see all the videos we posted head over to our youtube channel and sit down with a cup of tea and your knitting, while you are there: lots of great videos were also posted by Shetland Wool Week themselves which you can see on their youtube channel and we would definitely suggest looking through the posts and hashtags on Instagram relating to the event – its a rabbit hole for sure but a good one! (start with #shetlandwoolweek2020)
We hope this has helped soothe the sadness of the event being cancelled – we are waiting to get our Annuals so as soon as we do they will be on the online shop! Happy Knitting x
