Posted in being greener, frugal living, make it yourself, tagged knitting, wool, yarn on 16 March 2008 | No Comments »
I have finally undone the cardi that I bought from the charity shop. 2150g of wool - I would guess aran weight, but have yet to assess that.
I wound it all into balls, but from there, after a weigh in (helps judge what I can make from it) I have wound it into skeins, to [...]
Posted in being greener, frugal living, make it yourself, tagged knitting, socks on 11 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of my favourite hobbies is starting knitting projects. I love it.. the new yarn.. the deciding what to make.. casting on..seeing how it knits up. Problem is, I’m not always great at finishing projects.
I have completed lots of things.. but my home is littered with the remains of UFOs (unfinished objects) , some of [...]
Posted in being greener, grow your own food, livestock, pigs, recipes, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, vegetables, tagged vegetables, sheep, pigs on 8 March 2008 | 4 Comments »
Managed to squeeze a fair bit of outdoor work in today, before the bad weather arrived. Pulled lots of nettles. as we wont spray them, and scything them only cuts them down, the only way to hope to remove them is to pull them up, by hand, roots and all. I know - don’t tell [...]
Posted in being greener, frugal living, general wittering, home education, self-sufficiency, tagged mend and make do on 28 February 2008 | No Comments »
My Mum said to me recently that it was good these days that ‘mend and make do’ is back - now everyone is being green. She no longer thinks people will see her as being mean, if she wears something old and worn out, but ‘environmentally friendly’. Of course, we shouldn’t worry about what other [...]
Posted in being greener, house and home, tagged sustainable building on 24 February 2008 | 4 Comments »
In our on going efforts to make the house warmer, we have been looking at replacing some of the windows. We have, unfortunately, single glazing throughout the house. Even worse, the previous owner had replaced some of the windows in a bid to tart the place up before selling, and replaced with more single glazing!
It [...]
Posted in being greener, frugal living, make it yourself, recipes, self-sufficiency, tagged cider, homebrew on 1 February 2008 | No Comments »
Last year was my first attempt at cider. We even made our own press (have you seen the price of them!) I started crushing apples in August, by October it had finished bubbling in the demijohn and I bottled it. It was drinkable then, but a bit sharp.
I found a bottle the other day, it [...]
Posted in being greener, books, livestock, make it yourself, self-sufficiency, tagged fleece, scouring, sheep, spinning on 28 January 2008 | 2 Comments »
Last summer we went on a day course from the woolly shepherd on how to process your fleece. We learnt how to scour (wash) the fleece, dye it, card it and peg loom it. We also had a go with drop spindles and a spinning wheel. It was a lot of fun, and also very [...]
Posted in being greener, frugal living, make it yourself, self-sufficiency, tagged knitting, socks on 18 January 2008 | No Comments »
Himself was bemoaning how his socks always seemed to work themselves off his feet when wearing wellies. The ground is so soggy and poached that wellies are fairly essential wear in the fields and garden now.
so, I rummaged in my amazingly large stash of wool and found some chunky wool left over from a jumper, [...]
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