Briodag Video Class Kit

Name: Briodag Video Class Kit
SKU: 27494
Price: 84.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

Briodag patterncard kit design by Alice Starmore in Hebridean 2 Ply yarn

Description

Measurements:
Scarf – Length along centre 140cm.
Beret – Circumference 60[64.5]cm. Brim to crown 24.5[25.25]cm.
Fingerless Gloves – Width around knuckles 19.3[20.7,22]cm.

The Briodag kit includes online access to 3 hours and 5 mins of detailed video tutorials, a colour-printed patterncard with full instructions, and all the Alice Starmore Hebridean 2 Ply yarn required to make the Briodag Hat Set in your chosen colours. The beret instructions are for two sizes, and instructions for the gloves are provided in three sizes. Enough yarn is provided in the kit to make the largest size of gloves and beret.

The video tutorials are split into easy-to-watch sections, so that you can find the correct place as you need it for each of the three project classes in the kit. The videos are suitable for all abilities from beginner onwards. As well as giving a comprehensive introduction to openwork and short row shaping in making the scarf, the classes give full technique instructions in stranded knitting in the round and all the intricacies of shaping the beret and gloves.

The Briodag Video Class Kit is composed of a scarf, a beret, and one pair of fingerless gloves, worked in three shades of Alice Starmore Hebridean 2 Ply – a lighter or brighter pattern colour and two darker background colours. Your background colours should tone well together and provide a good contrast for your pattern colour. It is shown here in two colourways, the first is a pattern colour of Corncrake with background of Erica and Red Deer; the second is a pattern colour of Pebble Beach with background colours of Kelpie and Selkie.

You can find some Briodag Colour Palette suggestions here.

Click here for a digital shadecard of all Hebridean 2 Ply colours.

Background colour 1 is the colour at the centre of the scarf and background 2 is the colour between the outer edge and the centre.

Once your Briodag kit has been dispatched you will recieve an email with a username and password for our steek dot scot video tutorial website. You can use your personal login information to access a detailed Video Class showing how to make your Briodag Scarf, Hat and Gloves. If you are buying this as a gift please get in touch with us beforehand as classes are linked directly to your order details.

£84.00

Size
Pattern Colour
Background Colour 1
Background Colour 2	Clear

International Delivery Information

International Shipping

The Covid 19 crisis has seriously affected postal services across the world. Up until this point commercial passenger flights were utilized for package transportation, especially in larger countries such as the U.S.A, Canada and Australia. With the huge decrease in passenger flights this method is no longer possible, and delivery companies are having to find alternative transportation, which is driving costs up and slowing delivery times.

All of our International packages are sent by Royal Mail Tracked, which is an expensive service that allows packages to be logged more carefully within the delivery system. The cost of all Royal Mail services have increased because of the Covid 19 pandemic. To give an example, last July sending a patterncard kit such as Henry VIII internationally would have cost £8-10. From now onwards it will cost £18-20 not including packaging.

We are not expecting our international customers to cover the entire cost of their order delivery. We will continue to pay part of your postage and packaging costs, but we are asking our international customers to contribute to their shipping costs as follows –

Tracked International Shipping Costs

Orders up to £150 to a single address – Total Shipping £10

Orders up to £175 to a single address – Total Shipping £15

Orders up to £250 to a single address – Total Shipping £20

Orders up to £350 to a single address – Total Shipping £30

Orders up to £450 to a single address – Total Shipping £40

Orders over £451 to a single address – Total Shipping £50

This scale reflects the fact that larger orders will go in separate boxes. For example, an order of £350 will be sent out in three separate packages costing us roughly £15-£20 each, not including packaging.

Please ensure that you check our DELIVERY INFORMATION page for full details.

UK Delivery Information

UK Shipping

All of our UK parcels are sent by Royal Mail 1^st Class. Shipping times within the UK are relatively normal at the present time, with packages taking 2-3 days on average. Postage and packaging costs have risen but we are not expecting our UK customers to cover the entire cost of their order delivery. We will continue to pay part of your postage and packaging costs, but we are asking our UK customers to contribute to their shipping costs as follows –

UK Shipping Costs

Orders up to £100 to a single address – Total Shipping £3

Orders up to £200 to a single address – Total Shipping £5

Orders up to £300 to a single address – Total Shipping £7

Orders up to £400 to a single address – Total Shipping £10

Orders over £401 to a single address – Total Shipping £15

This scale reflects the fact that larger orders will go in separate boxes. For example, an order of £350 will be sent out in 3 separate packages, each costing us roughly £5.50-7.50 each, not including packaging.

Please ensure that you check our DELIVERY INFORMATION page for full details.

Purchase Information

Our pattern-inclusive kits are made up in skeins of varying weight, according to the amounts required for each project. Every project on our website has been knitted here at Virtual Yarns, so we know precisely how much yarn is required to make them. Each kit contains that amount plus an extra 8 per-cent more yarn. This is enough yarn to knit a swatch and the project, PROVIDED THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE FOLLOWED FOR THE SIZE ORDERED. The extra 8 per-cent allows reasonable leeway for knitter error. Kits are made up by hand to order, and each yarn amount is carefully weighed.

For further information, please check our PURCHASE INFORMATION page.

Washing Instructions

Please note that all of our yarns are supplied washed and therefore do not require to be washed or fulled after knitting, unless you have an accident. Generally speaking, your garments should not require cleaning/washing any more than a coat would.

All of our designs are made with 100% pure new wool yarns and should be washed either by hand with pure soap in hand hot-water, or in a front loading washing machine which has a specific wool programme using a small amount of non-biological detergent. We do not recommend the use of any fabric softeners or any additives that will remain in the fabric after rinsing.

If hand washing, dissolve a small amount of pure soap flakes – or if using a pure soap bar, grate the required amount – into hand-hot water. Ensure that the soap has thoroughly dissolved before immersing the piece. Use a gentle squeezing motion to wash; do not cause any friction by rubbing or scrubbing as this will cause the fibres to felt. Gently squeeze out the excess soapy water and rinse well in warm water. It is important to remove as much excess water as quickly as possible as the longer moisture is left in wool yarn, the more likely it is to shrink or felt.

The best method for removing water is to spin in a washing machine, but if you prefer to remove the water by hand then gently squeeze the piece to remove the main water load and then lay the piece flat on towels and roll up, squeezing out as much water as possible into the towels. You will have to use several towels and repeat the process to remove as much moisture as you can.

Alternatively, spin to remove the excess water. If using a top loading machine it is important to place the piece in a suitable pillowcase (white cotton is best) so that it does not wrap around the spindle and become distorted. For both top-loading machines and front-loading machines, it is vitally important to remove from the spinner as soon as it has stopped: otherwise the piece can become permanently creased.

In all cases, dry flat on towels away from direct heat/sunlight, and smooth gently into shape. You can place small towels – or even better, cut and finish old towelling into the garment shapes, such as sleeves etc – and place inside the garment so that the two layers are separate. This will greatly help speed up drying process.

For straight, dropped-shoulder pullover styles, a woolly board is an excellent method of drying as the garment is placed on the board and dried to size allowing air to circulate inside. The board can also be used for cardigans in this style so long as you tack the front bands closed using a strong cotton thread, which you then carefully remove once the garment has dried. Glove boards can also be used for gloves which will allow them to dry in perfect shape.

Story

The Briodag Set was inspired by the loch at the heart of our summer pasture. Loch Briodag is long and narrow, with a gentle curve roughly at the centre of its length. From above it looks as though a beautiful scarf has been laid down on the moor. This is no doubt how it came about its name as briodag is the Gaelic for a bridal scarf – a decorative item worn by women in times past. So it seemed appropriate that I should design a very special scarf for the Briodag Set in honour of my most beloved loch.

The inspirational elements for the scarf design were the magical feeling of the soft loch water on the skin, and how the loch allows one to “see” the wind in its surface – changing from glass-like reflection to gentle ripples, dancing summer zephyrs and stormy waves. The stranded colourwork beret and gloves depict the ripples and patterns the water creates as it flows around the rocks. So the light and airy openwork scarf together with the ripple-patterned beret and gloves reflect the diverse effects of wind on the water.

The mercurial moods of the loch and its gorgeous banks of colourful mosses, ferns, tiny moorland plants, heather and lichen-covered rocks provide an endless source of colour ideas for the Briodag Set.