Designing this Year’s MOW Special – Final Survey Results
You may have noticed that we’re mixing things up for this year’s Mill Open Weekend special by making you all honorary Mill Folk and inviting you to help us! We’re inviting you to give us a hand whipping up those specials, lending a hand picking everything from selecting the blend, to naming the shades. We created a series of surveys to help guide you through the steps. And happily, the results of the final survey are now ready. But first let’s have a bit of a recap of what has been selected already.
For the blend you chose a soft and lustrous blend of Corriedale, Grey Exmoor Blueface and Romney. This special will be majority Corriedale—no surprise there as it’s a gorgeously soft and bouncy fibre. We reckon it’s well suited to pretty much anything you might fancy making in it! You chose to blend the Corriedale with soft and lustrous Grey Exmoor Blueface and then accentuate the drape even more by adding a dash of Romney. Behind the scenes we have done a few test spins and cor blimey it is rather glorious, reckon you’re going to love it!
Composition: 75% Corriedale / 17% Grey Exmoor Blueface / 8% Romney
Spec: 4ply – 400m per 100g / also available as tops
We love drawing on the natural world when creating themes for our ranges, so were thrilled when you selected Geology and Minerals as an inspiration for your chosen colour palette. So much possible inspiration with this theme from a favourite pebble picked up on a beach to the cliffs and formations which can be spotted the length and breadth of the UK. Thanking you kindly to all of you who suggested a name. We’re chuffed to announce that we now have some winning names – hurrah! Everyone who suggested a winning name will receive 300g of either yarn or tops of their choosing as a thank you. We’ll be in touch soon if that’s you, so keep an eye on your inbox. Thank you also to Lesley B for suggesting Minerology for the range name! Without further ado, we’d like to present you with this year’s Mill Open Weekend specials – love the names you folks have suggested!
In keeping with the theme, we’re planning to photograph Minerology, along with a few samples at Haytor, one of Dartmoor’s most dramatic rock formations, in just a few weeks’ time. Very much looking forward to it and to showing you the photos!
Thank you oh so much again for helping us design this limited-edition range, Minerology. We hope you’ve enjoyed the process as much as we have! Minerology will be available at our in person Mill Open Weekend (7th-8th June) and launch online and with select stockists on the 5th July. Like all our ranges, it will be available in both yarn and fibre tops.