Self-sufficient ish

 

Rocket, living up to it’s name!

Today we woke up to see that our Rocket was already miles ahead of our other seeds! This afternoon, on checking again, we see that our radish is also pushing above the soil! All good stuff!

We started sowing our seeds two days ago – my bedroom windowsill [...]

Pattern Testing *shrugs*

 

This week I’ve been test-knitting this lovely cabled shrug, designed by Elaine Knight of Knitwits.

I chose a lovely chunky, merino mix yarn, in charcoal, and settled down with Elaine’s notes.

It worked up fairly quickly, has a lovely mix of stitch patterns and is very snuggly!

I took some photos, wrote up my musings, packaged [...]

Stalls, socks, sadness and a touch of sun..

We had a craft fair on Easter Sunday, it was the second one I’ve done, so this one was a little less stressful – even if I did forget half my stock, at least I remembered a float this time!

It was organised by the lovely Channa, of Oh Sew Nice – if you have [...]

Rain, hail, finally a bit of sun..

It’s been really cold here lately, with plenty of rain and a touch of hail, and although it’s doing my new plants the world of good, it’s also stopping me from getting out in the garden and doing more. I thought I’d put up a couple of photos I took a few weeks [...]