Talented craftswoman Samantha Longmore (pictured) from Ohhbulldust is coming to The Hive at Narrandera to run a workshop on July 8.

OhhBulldust runs workshops throughout the year to bring people together to showcase merino wool fibre and to teach participants how she knits with just one hand. She also teaches participants about the qualities of the wool and where it is derived from.

“The workshops are really all about coming together and spending some much needed time on yourself, making beautiful things of your own, eating food and drinking some wine or a cuppa together while having a laugh and sharing stories,” she said.

A wheelchair bound and hemiplegic with a love for agriculture, science and creativity, she has created her very own unique knitting style, dyed a whole bunch of superfine 17 micron merino wool and created blankets, ponchos, beanies, vests, jumpers, scarves, felt ball earrings, floor rugs and more, all out of super chunky felted merino wool.

“Ohhbulldust is about creating as a form of therapy and meeting a whole bunch of like minded people, with a passion for handmade,” she said.

Samantha taught herself to knit with one elbow and a pole after a car accident left her paralysed down the right side of her body and is now working hard to keep up with demand for her highly-desirable chunky knits.

While she said her emerging label Ohhbulldust handmade knits was still "a hobby turning into a business", she has received overtures to go wholesale and sell on a large-scale as she makes and distributes the pieces herself.

Samantha was in a car accident, the details of which she does not like to revisit, and was left a "hemiplegic" with the right side of her body from her shoulder to her toes left paralysed, leaving her in a wheelchair.

She began her label and her knitting technique was using just one elbow and a pole.

Samantha sources the wool from the Nundle woollen mill in north-western NSW and does all the treatment to it herself, including the dyeing.

The hope is for the wool to be eventually sourced from her and her partner's own property in Binalong.

Contact The Hive Narrandera for further information about the workshop.

Binalong knitter Samantha Longmore uses her elbow and a pole to knit. Photo supplied.