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 [...]
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recycled wool
Posted in being greener, frugal living, make it yourself, tagged knitting, wool, yarn on 16 March 2008 | No Comments »
seed swapping
Posted in frugal living, grow your own food, self-sufficiency, tagged seeds, sowing on 14 March 2008 | No Comments »
Spending a fair bit of time in the old greenhouse these days, sowing seeds, particularly as I have preference for starting most things off in modules, including beetroot and beet spinach - worked well for me last year, and we have such a large slug population, it being a mild yet rainy sort of place, [...]
knitting guilt
Posted in being greener, frugal living, make it yourself, tagged socks, knitting 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 [...]
bonfire
Posted in frugal living, house and home, smallholding, tagged leylandii on 4 March 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s that time of year when the daylight stretches out to after 6 on a clear day, and dinner gets pushed further and further back, as we make the most of light after work etc, until sometime in the summer we give up and actually break for food, before returning.
This evening we tackled the heap [...]
charity shop foraging
Posted in frugal living, home education, house and home on 3 March 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’m a casual charity shop forager. That is, I don’t spend all day going from charity shop to charity shop hunting that bargain; with home educating my son, I don’t have the time. I’m not much into shopping either. But I cannot stand waste - and will not cut up (to remake into something else) an [...]
pig and pork
Posted in frugal living, grow your own food, pigs, recipes, self-sufficiency, smallholding on 29 February 2008 | No Comments »
It’s wandered through our minds, to keep pigs. Mostly because pigs were obviously kept here, big time, in the past. Unfortunately the set up was clearly an intensive one, with concrete sties and a boar pen; small enclosures and run down. Not our way, but still perhaps some of it could be used. And keeping pigs [...]
mend and make do
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 [...]
jointing a chicken
Posted in frugal living, recipes, self-sufficiency on 22 February 2008 | 1 Comment »
Why bother? well first off, if you intend, as we do, to raise chickens for the pot, you will need to know this. If you want to buy free range, it is relatively easy to buy a whole free range bird, but not as easy to buy FR breast or joints. But significantly… it works [...]
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