madebyjalene, Bloemfontein (2026)

11/06/2026

📺 ANNELIE UNRAVELED · THURSDAY 11 JUNE · 09:00 SAST 🧶
Slow-made. Hand-dyed. A step earlier than yarn.

🟢 Out now for my YouTube channel members. Become a member to watch early at the link below.
🟡 Public release Thursday at 9 AM SAST.

At Cape Town Yarn Festival 2026, I stood at Annelie's stall on the festival floor and talked with her about her work — small-batch hand-dyed fibre, expressive handmade roving tops, and a curated range of spinning tools. Rich colour stories, softly textured spins, and a quiet embrace of the beauty of the imperfect.
If you've never spun your own yarn, this is the kind of stall that pulls you in anyway.

❤️ Thank you, Annelie — for the time, and for the amazing artistic care you bring to your work and your passion for spinning!

🎙 The Lekker Podcast is the official podcast of Cape Town Yarn Festival 2026.
Set a reminder — Thursday, 09:00 SAST. 🧶

▶️ Watch on YouTube: [https://youtu.be/5ZBl4_PISqY]

Cape Town Yarn Festival Annelie Unraveled

10/06/2026

📺 JANETTE SCHELPE DESIGNS · WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE · 09:00 SAST 🧶
Tapestries. Reborn as shoes.

🟢 Out now for my YouTube channel members. Become a member to watch early — link in bio.
🟡 Public release Wednesday at 9 AM SAST.

At Cape Town Yarn Festival 2026, I stood at Janette's stall on the festival floor, surrounded by pairs of shoes cut from tapestries that almost ended up in landfill and listened to her tell me how it all started.

Janette Schelpe Designs is a small, women-owned and women-run studio that's been empowering women for five years. Two styles of bespoke shoes. Every pair cut from a single tapestry. Every pair, one of a kind.

They also customise your own tapestries. Your grandmother's. A charity-shop find. One you started and never finished. Send it to them they'll turn it into a pair of shoes you can wear.

❤️ Thank you, Janette for the time, for the work, and for what you're doing with textiles that almost got thrown away.

🎙 The Lekker Podcast is the official podcast of Cape Town Yarn Festival 2026.
Cape Town Yarn Festival Janette Schelpe Designs
Set a reminder — Wednesday, 09:00 SAST. 🧶

▶️ Watch on YouTube: [https://youtu.be/LRpFbDOYZFY]

09/06/2026

📺 DREAMSPELL DYEWORKS · TUESDAY 9 JUNE · 09:00 SAST 🧶

Slow-crafted. Small-batch. Hand-dyed.

🟢 Out now for my YouTube channel members. Become a member to watch early at the link below.
🟡 Public release Tuesday at 9 AM SAST.

At Cape Town Yarn Festival 2026, I interviewed Lara the woman behind Dreamspell Dyeworks at her stall — a one-woman business in Langebaan, on the West Coast, hand-dyeing yarn in small batches.
A conversation about colour, slow making, and the kind of patience it takes to do everything yourself.

❤️ Thank you to Lara from Dreamspell for the time, the work, and the care that goes into every skein.
If you want to put her yarn on your needles — and I really think you should — head to dreamspelldyeworks.co.za.

🎙 The Lekker Podcast is the official podcast of Cape Town Yarn Festival 2026.
Set a reminder — Tuesday, 09:00 SAST. 🧶

▶️ Watch on YouTube: [https://youtu.be/d2XiULcbLzA]
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Cape Town Yarn Festival Dreamspell Dyeworks

08/06/2026

📺 THE GUILDS · MONDAY 8 JUNE · 09:00 SAST 🧶

Three crafts older than any of us in the room.

🟢 Out now for my YouTube channel members. Become a member to watch early at the link below.
🟡 Public release Monday at 9 AM SAST.

At Cape Town Yarn Festival 2026, three of South Africa's craft guilds were there alongside the yarn vendors — quietly keeping crafts alive that have been passed hand to hand for generations.

The Cape Lace Guild. Established 1982. Their pitch is simple — and a little disarming: "Two bobbins. That's all it takes."

The Cape Embroiderers' Guild. Formed in June 1984. This is their 42nd year of monthly meetings, newsletters, workshops, and a library that's been growing the whole time.

The Good Hope Quilters' Guild. Established in 1937. That's 89 years of quilters in the Western Cape. Older than the country we now live in, if you're counting from 1994.

I went to all three tables. Here are their stories.

❤️ Thank you to the Cape Lace Guild, the Cape Embroiderers' Guild, and the Good Hope Quilters' Guild for letting me sit with you for a moment.
If you're in the Western Cape and you've ever been curious about lace, embroidery, or quilting — every one of these guilds will welcome you. Meeting times, venues, and contact details are in the YouTube video description.

🎙 The Lekker Podcast is the official podcast of Cape Town Yarn Festival 2026.

Set a reminder — Monday, 09:00 SAST. 🧶
▶️ Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Fj17PG2RlYQ
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Cape Town Yarn Festival Cape Embroiderers' Guild Good Hope Quilters Guild

05/06/2026

📺 AFRICAN EXPRESSIONS · FRIDAY 5 JUNE · 09:00 SAST 🧶

Episode 5 is here.

🟢 Out now for my YouTube channel members. Become a member to watch early at the link below.
🟡 Public release Friday at 9 AM SAST.

At Cape Town Yarn Festival 2026, I sat down with Roxanne from African Expressions — one of our festival sponsors and the name behind some of the most internationally loved South African mohair on the market.

A conversation about their fourteen-yarn range, the mohair that's made them a household name, and what it means for a brand like theirs to back the South African fibre community.

❤️ Thank you, Roxanne — for your time, and for letting me into the story behind the spool.
❤️ Thank you to African Expressions — for sponsoring this festival, and for taking South African mohair to the world.

🎙 The Lekker Podcast is the official podcast of Cape Town Yarn Festival 2026.
Set a reminder — Friday, 09:00 SAST. 🧶

▶️ Watch on YouTube: [https://youtu.be/D6qrt0Ftc3w]

04/06/2026

📺 STUCKEN YARNS · THURSDAY 4 JUNE · 09:00 SAST 🧶

Episode 4 is here.

🟢 Out now for my YouTube channel members. Become a member to watch early at the link below.
🟡 Public release Thursday at 9 AM SAST.

At Cape Town Yarn Festival 2026, I sat down with Schandre and Nozi from Stucken Yarns — one of the festival's official sponsors, and the name behind some of the finest South African mohair you can put on your needles.
A conversation about the yarn, the work, and what it means for a brand like theirs to back the South African fibre community.

❤️ Thank you, Schandre and Nozi — for your time and for letting me into the story behind the spool.
❤️ Thank you to Stucken Yarns — for sponsoring this festival and standing behind the makers it brought together.

🎙 The Lekker Podcast is the official podcast of Cape Town Yarn Festival 2026.

Set a reminder — Thursday, 09:00 SAST. 🧶
▶️ Watch on YouTube: [https://youtu.be/ZG0DXSO_i9M]
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Stucken Yarns

03/06/2026

📺 67 BLANKETS · WEDNESDAY 3 JUNE · 09:00 SAST

The episode I most wanted to make.
🟢 Out now for my YouTube channel members. Become a member to watch early — link in bio.
🟡 Public release Wednesday at 9 AM SAST.

At Cape Town Yarn Festival 2026, Carolyn Steyn — founder of 67 Blankets for Nelson Mandela Day — stopped on the festival floor to talk to me. So did Sandi King, the Cape Town Ambassador. And the whole time, people kept walking up to drop off blankets, pick up squares, and ask how they could join. I left every interruption in. They're not the noise — they're the proof.

❤️ Thank you, Carolyn — for the movement, the years, and the time you gave us in the middle of a busy day.
❤️ Thank you, Sandi — and every KnitWit in the Cape Town group who keeps this work going, stitch by stitch.
❤️ Thank you to the ambassadors on multiple continents, and to every single person in countries all over the world who has ever picked up a hook or a pair of needles for someone they will never meet. Every square you've made is a piece of this. This community project is phenomenal because of you.

If you want to be part of it — wherever you are — knit or crochet a 60×60 cm square, then donate it to your nearest ambassador. Everything you need is at 67blankets.co.za.

🎙 The Lekker Podcast is the official podcast of Cape Town Yarn Festival 2026.
Set a reminder — Wednesday, 09:00 SAST. 🧶

01/06/2026

📺 EPISODE 2 IS LIVE 🧶

🟢 Out now for my YouTube channel members. Become a member to watch early — link in bio.

🟡 Public release this Tuesday at noon SAST.

I walked you through every single trader at Cape Town Yarn Festival 2026. All 39 of them.

From hand-dyed indie skeins to alpaca farms. From tapestry shoes to charm bars. From mohair giants to mother-and-daughter studios.

This is the South African yarn community on one floor in Fishhoek — and now on YouTube.
🎙 Watch on — link in bio.

✨ Tagging all 39 traders so you can find them and follow them:
.dyeworks .wool
🎪 And the festival itself —
Massive thanks to Red Thread Events for hosting, and to our five sponsors: African Expressions, Mohair SA, Stucken Yarns, Vinni's Colours, and Ideas Magazine — without whom none of this would have been possible.

Subscribe on YouTube for the full 14-episode series — Carolyn Steyn from 67 Blankets, vendor deep-dives, the guilds, the workshops, and the closing wrap all still to come.

Go watch. Then go support every single trader on that list. 🧶❤️

25/05/2026

✨ The wait is over! ✨

The very first episode in my 14-part series covering the incredible Cape Town Yarn Festival 2026 is now live on my YouTube channel! 🧶🎥

From beautiful yarns and inspiring makers to vendor interviews, behind the scenes moments, and all the cozy festival energy… we’re diving straight into the magic of this year’s festival.

If you couldn’t attend, this series will make you feel like you were right there with us. And if you did attend… get ready to relive the yarny joy all over again 💛

📍Episode 1 premiered today at 13:00 SAST (it will fist be available to members only)
🧶 14 episodes
🎤 Interviews, stalls, makers, sponsors & festival moments

30/01/2026

🎉 IT’S HERE! 🎉

The Scrappy Kindle Cozy knitting pattern is now LIVE on Ravelry 📚🧶
I’m so excited to finally share this cozy, stash-busting project with you!

The pattern includes two yarn weight options and optional duplicate stitching patterns for both versions — perfect for adding your own scrappy personality.

🧶 Yarn options:
• Fi*****ng weight: approx. 30g
• DK weight: approx. 40g

Whether you’re using mini skeins, leftovers, or that special scrap you’ve been saving, this is a quick and satisfying knit that makes a practical everyday accessory (and a great gift too!).

Available now on Ravelry
I can’t wait to see your colour combinations — don’t forget to tag me so I can admire your makes!

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