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 [...]
pleasant indoors day
Posted in general wittering, grow your own food, home education, house and home, knitting, spinning on 17 June 2011 | 3 Comments »
I like it when the rain sets in properly, and you can stop agonising over whether its indoors or outdoors things today. Whilst my son and I were doing the home ed thing: watching “Henry VIII: Mind of a Tyrant [DVD] [2009] “looking at banking and bank accounts, cooking and making brownies and so on, [...]
..and the winner is
Posted in general wittering, knitting, make it yourself, spinning on 9 May 2011 | 4 Comments »
Jo! After spending a bit of time looking for a random number generator.. I finally realised the easy option and put all the names in a hat.. well ok a paper bag.. and my son chose one. So, something woolly I said and after some hasty stabbing (aka needle felting) last night, the prize is one [...]
new knitting project
Posted in dyeing, knitting, make it yourself, self-sufficiency, spinning, tagged knitting, spinning, wool on 20 February 2011 | 9 Comments »
Last year, one of the goals for the year was to knit a jumper for each of us. I only managed one.. But have higher hopes for this year. Well we shall see. The problem with the jumper for himself, was settling on a colour. He wanted a jumper from our own wool, dyed ourselves, and hand [...]
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