Agi the Sheep

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£40.00

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Description

Agi is a little sheep designed by celebrated toymaker,Cinthia Vallet, as part of her Mouche and Friends Collection. Agi lives on a tiny island. She loves walking for hours, jumping from one rock to another, and searching for treasures shaped by the sea.

ThisAgi kit has been created by the Portuguese woolmaker, Abenaia,  and includes undyed sheep's wool selected by the Abenaia project from from local sheperds. The yarn that is scoured, teased, carded and spun by hand in the local area where the sheep are reared in Portugal.

Your kit includes:

  • undyed dark brown yarn for Agi's body, waistcoat and dress
  • undyed light brown yarn for Agi's hoofs
  • undyed cream (ecru) yarn for the accent detail on Agi's dress
  • unspun wool stuffing
  • a woollen draw string project bag

This  Abenaia project was born to make Portuguese yarn more visible, collect ethnobotanical knowledge, and also try to recover the artisan work of wool processing. All sheep are free range and mulesing is not practiced.

The pattern for Agi is not included in the kit but you can find it in Cinthia Vallet's Mouche and Friends collection.You will also need 2mm needles for Agi's body, and 2mm, 2.75mm m needles for her outfit  all suitable for knitting smal circumferences in the round. Needles are not included in the kit.