The dyed yarn is all drying off. It has been a very exciting but intensive few days! What a lot of boiling water, rinsing yarn, drying yarn, weighing out mordants, chopping up leaves, cleaning mud and spiders off things and lugging big kettles of water around has been going on! Hats off to Katie for […]
I am amazed and delighted by the sheer quantity of produce emerging from our garden right now. Coming from untrained and totally suburban roots, the fact of growing my own food or producing stuff from the garden still feels like a constant miracle to me. Skills and knowledge are effortfully and deliberately acquired rather than […]
I am loving Liz’s Hopscotch sock pattern. Although I have to concentrate on it quite hard, most of the charts are quite easy to memorise and I love the way the lemon and lime yarn by Woolhunter knits up. I enjoy having the time and space to do a pattern which causes me to look […]