Reading Time: 3 minutesFlea Fairs for vintage fabric are my latest find. Recently, I went to the Malvern Flea Fair (my nearest flea market) and came home with two pieces of charming fabric. One was a vintage tartan, and one was a cotton fabric of – I don’t know what age – but I liked it. I frequent […]
Craft Skills
It’s Easy to Learn Crochet: More Than You Think
Reading Time: 2 minutesI thought I would air a few thoughts on learning to crochet as, recently, more than one person has said to me that they’d like to learn how to crochet (or knit) but don’t think they would have the time or the ability. Crochet, though, like many other skills is built upon a foundation of […]
Trash Batts: Spinning With Yarn Scraps
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve mentioned that my saving of scraps of just about anything (yarn, fabrics, carding waste etc) knows no bounds. Trash batts are my next scrap using experiment. Batts are the rectangle of processed fibre that results from carding using hand-carders or a drum carder. I’ve asked before when are remnants and scraps too small to use? It seems […]
Herdwick Wool Socks: Boot and Slouch Socks
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat could be better for tramping along a frosty path in a pair of boots and Herdwick wool socks. Durable and warm, Herdwick wool is an ideal pairing with boots and wellies. Walk the dog and hop over stiles in these. It’s a kempy (hairy) wool, which unsurprisingly, knitters don’t tend to favour for snuggly […]
#Swatchalong: Herdwick Swatch
Reading Time: 2 minutesI have some grey Herdwick wool top in my spinning supplies basket which I had started to use as ‘practice fibre’ when getting used to a new spinning wheel. I initially saw it as expendable, should the first efforts at spinning on the wheel result in uneven, badly spun yarn. Why did I think it […]
Fleece and Fibre at the Small Breeds Farm
Reading Time: 3 minutesMy obsession with fleece and fibre is growing. Not only do I now have a basket of some new types of wool top to spin (new to me) to add to a mountain of Ryeland fleece that I already possess, it seems like a good idea to connect the fleece/fibre to the animal. In the week […]
