Posted in frugal living, grow your own food, make it yourself, recipes, self-sufficiency, wild foods, tagged nettles on 7 May 2008 | No Comments »
what are nettles good for #5 - nettle pasta
After making the nettle beer, I was left with a panful of nettle pulp with a few bits of lemon peel. I picked these out and thought… seems a shame to have done all that tedious nettle picking and then throw them away and only keep the [...]
Posted in being greener, frugal living, grow your own food, house and home, make it yourself, self-sufficiency on 2 May 2008 | No Comments »
Now have a water butt set up for the greenhouse. Up until now, we have been collecting rainwater.. but not in the right place. We have a 400 gallon ex-juice container collecting off the old piggery, but to get water to the greenhouse means filling up two watering cans, walking up the lane, up the [...]
Posted in livestock, make it yourself, sheep, tagged knitting, lambing, sheep on 19 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s been three weeks. Three weeks ago we were sitting in front of the fire on a cold wintry day, himself spinning, me knitting, when the lambing began, and with that spring popped into place. Today it popped out again, and back into winter. April often seems like that: the fight between winter and spring. [...]
Posted in make it yourself, tagged knitting, socks on 25 March 2008 | 5 Comments »
Well this plan of having only five WIP in terms of knitting is working out, and I have now finished one of the smaller projects - socks. They are great - really comfy (please ignore the mud on my jeans and the wall that is part of our ‘make living room more pleasant project’!)
The yarn [...]
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 house and home, make it yourself, self-sufficiency, tagged knitting, wool, yarn on 15 March 2008 | No Comments »
Rain. so much that the fields are waterlogged, even though it’s hilly… not good for the sheep feet.. the ground is poaching, but at least the grass is growing.
We have been saying a rainy weekend would be fine - we have so much to do inside the house.. yet always we seem to end up [...]
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 make it yourself, tagged knitting, spinning, wool on 5 March 2008 | 2 Comments »
We have been washing and carding the black fleece we were given, and himself has been working his way though it, spinning. Definitely a lot less ‘novelty’ yarn coming out now, and noticeable increase in speed.
It turns out you can just buy a spinning wheel and get on with it.
I’m hoping to get enough to [...]
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