Yes, stir up Sunday today, and for us the first hint of that winter festival thingy.. Christmas.. as we made our Christmas pudding today. It will get steamed tomorrow.
Pudding was stirred, wishes made.
We did manage to do some hedging today, but the weather made it difficult, was ok, then suddenly windy and rainy.. then ok [...]
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stir up
Posted in make it yourself, recipes on 22 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
baskets
Posted in make it yourself on 21 November 2009 | 10 Comments »
Today, I was glad it was a pretty awful day, as we planned a ‘day off’ from all the pressing work that needs doing around here. We headed to the Somerset levels to a willow farm and took part in a day’s course in basketry.
We made these two log baskets – Himself’s is the large green [...]
dyeing with buddleia
Posted in make it yourself, tagged dyeing on 27 October 2009 | 4 Comments »
Our latest experiment with natural dyes is dyeing with the dead flower heads of buddleia.
The instructions we got from Jenny Dean.
Basically – we mordanted a couple of skeins of homespun wool overnight (Devon Closewool).
We went out with our big dye pot and filled it to the top with dead flowers – really easy as we have [...]
suppliers without mulesing
Posted in knitting, make it yourself, tagged knitting, mulesing on 23 October 2009 | 10 Comments »
After deciding to avoid wool from sources that allowing mulesing , I have been investigating suppliers, and asking around.
The obvious first choice is to buy locally. Mulesing is not allowed in the UK, so if I buy locally produced and grown yarn – such as some available at coldharbour mill, that will be fine. And [...]
merino and mulesing
Posted in crochet, general wittering, knitting, make it yourself, tagged crochet, knitting on 18 October 2009 | 10 Comments »
I’m trying to clear some of my knitting projects so I can begin in some things for that winter festival thingy.
so one of the recent finishes is this merino scarf for himself. We bought the rovings, and he spun it, and I knitted it up using a Moebius pattern. I’m assured its very snuggly.
I have [...]
and now for something silly
Posted in knitting, make it yourself, tagged knitting on 9 October 2009 | 3 Comments »
Some of the people on ravelry who liked my pumpkin and heart wash cloths, have been dropping heavy hints for more patterns, so last night I came up with this. Well it’s a bit of fun.
so the ravelry page is here, or you can go direct to the pattern.
I think i like creating new things [...]
pink socks
Posted in knitting, make it yourself, tagged knitting on 28 August 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ve done very little knitting or crochet lately, finding myself slicing beans for the freezer rather than holding a crochet hook or the like, but I did finish these socks a while back, and as they were a present for my sister-in-law, I went to the effort this time of trying to make them match. [...]
last steps in the big freezer plan
Posted in chickens, general wittering, grow your own food, house and home, livestock, make it yourself, pigs, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, vegetables on 19 July 2009 | 4 Comments »
another rainy day, so, after a late and pleasant start, drinking coffee with family etc, we declared it an indoor sort of day, and did a little DIY necessary to accomodate our new freezer.
Yes, we have saved enough to buy the new one, moved everything around as this bigger freezer uses about a third of [...]
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