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Title: Red wool ( or alternative) for goats toe and soldier palmer
Post by: James Laraway on 09/01/2017 at 10:49

can anyone reccomend ?

I dont want to go to the bother of buying some so if anyone woudl be kind enough to send me some i'll swap you for some dyed teal feathers

i have some blue, yellow, chartreus red or purple !

Title: Re: Red wool ( or alternative) for goats toe and soldier palmer
Post by: Iain Cameron on 22/01/2017 at 19:14

hi james


I can send you a metre or two of red wool - someone gifted a large ball to me, and it's grand for solider palmers (one of my essential, always tied-on wet flees for wild trouts) and for the tags of flees. You can also untwist it and use it as a fuzzy body material.


PM me your address and i'll post some along; don't think i'd use dyed teal, but tie me an SP and send that instead!


cheers
iain

Title: Re: Red wool ( or alternative) for goats toe and soldier palmer
Post by: Derek Roxborough on 23/01/2017 at 14:23

find a car boot sale usually find some wool there, even seen chadwicks 477 at odd ones always worth a visit or try a jumble sale, easgach 1

Title: Re: Red wool ( or alternative) for goats toe and soldier palmer
Post by: James Laraway on 23/01/2017 at 16:32

Quote from: IainCameron on 22/01/2017 at 19:14

hi james


I can send you a metre or two of red wool - someone gifted a large ball to me, and it's grand for solider palmers (one of my essential, always tied-on wet flees for wild trouts) and for the tags of flees. You can also untwist it and use it as a fuzzy body material.


PM me your address and i'll post some along; don't think i'd use dyed teal, but tie me an SP and send that instead!


cheers
iain

sounds like a deal to me :-). What colour would you like your shrimp to be ? Im guessing white but i can  do purple, yellow, blue...pink if you are feeling girly  :z7

you have a PM

Title: Re: Red wool ( or alternative) for goats toe and soldier palmer
Post by: Iain Cameron on 23/01/2017 at 16:49

i'll wing you some wool in the post, got the address. cheers

Title: Re: Red wool ( or alternative) for goats toe and soldier palmer
Post by: James Laraway on 30/01/2017 at 10:11

thanks to Iain for the red wool. Thought i would start off trying to tie a blue zulu, then as i have lots of colours of guinea fowl thought i would try a red zulu ! I think i prefer it in red...

Title: Re: Red wool ( or alternative) for goats toe and soldier palmer
Post by: John Powell on 30/01/2017 at 12:50

FWIW

these people sell 5g = about 14m for £0.99 pp incl all colours
for knitting 'tension squares'   (Google it)

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Woolyhippo-Quality-DK-100-Acrylic-Baby-Wool-100g-Double-Knitting-Crochet-Yarn-/151413119634?var=450614220836&hash=item2340ecda92:g:IfkAAOSw8-tWYCy9

Title: Re: Red wool ( or alternative) for goats toe and soldier palmer
Post by: Iain Cameron on 30/01/2017 at 16:58

nice Flees James - very buzzzzy