How sweet are these tiny knitted / crocheted flowers? They are from Turkey, and I bought them in an emergency visit to Loop yesterday to get some Addi Turbo needles. I’m taking the Box Stitch cardi with me to Sussex this weekend – need to finish it before the 8th May!. The flowers are all [...]
Solitary Thrift
I planted about 40 of these Thrift seeds in pink and white, and now, weeks after doing so I get *one* seedling… sigh…
Gardening Blasphemy?
Planted out 2 pea plants (the purple podded ones), a broadbean (sutton), two pepper plants (F1 Gypsy / Giallo d’asti), two tomatoes (gardener’s delight), sowed some feverfew and borage seeds, and scattered some mixed lettuce and rocket seeds. All in one pot. I think this may be gardening sacrelige – still, you never know until [...]
English, Scottish and Welsh wool
It’s not like I needed more yarn is it? But I was in IKnit the other day, killing time before Actionette practice, and it’s so rare to find wool that isn’t Rowan, DB etc and I am *trying* to make an effort to get stuff locally…. Well there you are then… :) (L to R: [...]
Fruitful
I sent the Fruitful Research website live today. It has been great fun working with L; reading her gardening blog, getting the lowdown on allotment keeping, Sarah Raven – I’m off to volunteer at the Cutting Garden nursery for a few days at the end of April – and eating rhubarb and drinking tea made [...]
Desk!
The day after M’s b-day drink is probably not the best time to ask for help in moving a great big desk from A’s workshop up 3 flights of stairs, but hey! It’s here now and lovely… I’m afraid my photos don’t do it justice in any way.. I’t needs a wide angle lens of [...]
Felt bird workshop
Amy asked if I could run a felt bird making workshop at the launch of The Crafter Culture Handbook in Notting Hill; I assumed there would be a bunch of us who’d contributed projects to the book doing them, but no only me! I felt honoured (or maybe I was the only one to say [...]
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