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 [...]
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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 »
fibrefest
Posted in crochet, general wittering, grow your own food, knitting, make it yourself, spinning, vegetables on 21 August 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Somehow, something has always cropped up to prevent us going to fibrefest, but this year we actually made it. Just for one morning.. which was long enough for me to ‘accidentally’ buy some alpaca fibre for spinning.. and some pretty blue faced Leicester yarn.. himself bought a loom…. So now, with the looms we have [...]
knitting WIP…
Posted in chickens, crochet, grow your own food, home education, knitting, livestock, make it yourself, pigs, self-sufficiency, sheep on 25 February 2010 | 4 Comments »
I seem to have got a bit into a muddle.. and lost my rules of only so many projects on the go at once. Problem is dabbling in trying to make things that might sell.. that and a distinct lack of time all round. I feel lamb-lagged from the night checks etc… But enough excuses. [...]
how was your day?
Posted in chickens, crochet, general wittering, home education, knitting, livestock, make it yourself, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, tagged chickens, dyeing, sheep on 18 January 2010 | 6 Comments »
Nothing of any import to report today.. I didn’t achieve much, just ambled through it. People seem to gauge other people by what they do – and by this they mean for a job. I’m fortunate enough to be able to stay at home with my son, who is disabled, and educate him, and fit the [...]
thaw and colour therapy
Posted in crochet, make it yourself, tagged crochet, dyeing, spinning on 14 January 2010 | 10 Comments »
Still lots of the white stuff around – but mostly green. Everything is so wet and muddy.. and depressing. or maybe I’m just suffering from January blues… Talking of blues, I finished this blue and purple cushion yesterday – my latest interest is the blending of colours, at carding or plying stages.. Devon Closewool wool, home [...]
a round up of presents
Posted in crochet, knitting, make it yourself on 29 December 2009 | 4 Comments »
Now it is safe to mention the presents I have made for Christmas: A red and purple crocheted cushion – our own wool, we dyed and carded it together to blend from one to the other. Quite pleased with how it came out. Another cushion, this time from the fleece from the ram we borrow [...]
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. [...]
horse drawn barge
Posted in crochet, general wittering, grow your own food, home education, knitting, livestock, vegetables on 10 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We were proper grockles today and went on a day trip out, to go on the horse drawn barge on the Grand Western Canal. As it was fairly close, we also popped into coldharbour mill and ‘accidentally’ bought four more bags of thrums (lengths of scrap yarn). oops The barge trip itself was really nice; relaxing [...]
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