With terrible timing, this week we have, as well as catching up on all the digging, and sowing and starting the planting out, been butchering a mutton. Well, that was Wednesday – and no we would not have planned it had we known it would turn hot – but I distinctly remember the news stating [...]
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mutton butchery
Posted in grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, soap, vegetables on 27 May 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Devon county show
Posted in general wittering, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, weaving on 18 May 2012 | 3 Comments »
We’ve been at the show today. We particularly wanted to go to take a really close look at the sheep – shows are an ideal way of finding out what you really like in a breed. We looked long and hard at the blue faced Leicesters - as we are tempted to add one or two to [...]
woad bed
Posted in dyeing, make it yourself, tagged dyeing, natural dye on 19 March 2012 | 2 Comments »
Ever since we started experiementing with natural dyes, I have fancied a dyers garden – filled with woad, weld, and madder and all the plants I could need. It’s not quite worked out like that – for a start we just dont have one huge patch of ground I want to dedicate to dyes alone. [...]
green
Posted in knitting, make it yourself, tagged knitting, socks on 17 March 2012 | 13 Comments »
Well, it is St Patrick’s day. Lately, I have been failing to spend much time knitting things for me – rather than for my online shop, so have tried to mix in a bit more of making for me things, and now have another pair of socks to wear as a result. This yarn was [...]
the room of doom
Posted in crochet, dyeing, general wittering, house and home, knitting, make it yourself, spinning, weaving on 28 February 2012 | 2 Comments »
Over the last couple of days we have been tackling the room of doom aka the spare room. ‘Spare’ makes it seem surplus to requirements – not so – we have both worked from home in that room, it is the main storage area of our home dyed wool, in various stages of process, our [...]
weaving
Posted in make it yourself, weaving on 12 January 2012 | 3 Comments »
Boxing day for us is a nice indulgent work free day, when you have time to play with your new toys, or start that craft project you have been meaning to do. I took up my needles and started making some things for me, after a long stretch of present making or making products for [...]
gift makes
Posted in knitting, make it yourself on 5 January 2012 | 3 Comments »
I always feel that the festive season is pretty much over by New year’s day. That’s the last of it, after that it is time to take down the greenery and lights and get back to normal. Of course you have a few days before twelfth night to find everything. We thought we had everything.. [...]
happy new year
Posted in general wittering, make it yourself on 1 January 2012 | 3 Comments »
Wishing all my readers, friends and family a very happy new year. xx We’ve given ourselves a ‘day off’ and have been crafting happily – not a bad start!
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