Ellie
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Sheepy Sunday
So after the 3 witches we acquired Wolfie! She is a welsh white type sheep and was a bottle lamb that one of my neighbour’s wives acquired to raise. We acquired her when she had transitioned into the neighbour’s garden and was spending more time munching flower beds and pooping on the front doorstep than…
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Sheepy Sunday
So we have done Wanda’s Story and Baarbara’s Story…. Here is the story of the three witches!! Basically we swapped three sheep for some large bales of haylage the summer after we had Wanda and Babs! Not a hugely exciting story, but we ended up with Garlick, Og and Weatherwax, which for the literary savvy…
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Sheepy Sunday!
So last Month I told you some of Wanda’s story…. Up this month is Baabara! Baabara is a mule most likely, Welsh white… something along those lines! She is the white faced one in this picture and is the MOST suspicious sheep you will ever meet!! When they come up for feed in the field,…
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Wooly Wednesday – hats
Since moving to the smallholding I wear a lot of hats, literally and metaphorically!! I have a few favourites… My lattice hat, knitted up in a gorgeous sock weight alpaca yarn I bought on the Great London Yarn Crawl, my River Knits yarn hat, which is a gorgeous sock weight yarn and I knitted a…
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Learning to Knit
I often get a lot of comments as people see me knit out and about, or see the yarns, or my knitted socks….. “I wish I could knit” Well the honest truth is it takes practice, but its actually quite easy!! and realistically if you can knit, purl and can google what the other terminology…
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Woolly Wednesday – Socks
Lets talk socks! Now I love sock weight yarns… I certainly dye up enough of them! and I love socks knitted out of them…. but I am finding with more limited knitting time these days with the two kids, a smallholding and a few businesses to sort that sock weight yarn socks just takes an…
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Thursday Thoughts – Willow
For the past week or so I have been slowly working away and harvesting willow. I have been using it around the holding to make all sorts of things. Firstly Fedges…. Willow fences basically. These are living fences, provide cover for birds, food for bees and insects and lattice up beautifully as they age. I…
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Sheepy Sunday, Wanda’s Story
Once a month I am going to tell you the story of our sheep and how we came to acquire them! First up is our first sheep on the smallholding, Wanda. She is a Beulah Speckled Face sheep, which you can see more in later photographs. Wanda turned up in the lane and on our…
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Wooly Wednesday
One of the most popular yarns in our online shop are our sock weight yarns. We have several bases, Smooshie (the silk, wool blend) Sock (superwash BFL) Stardust (the one with the sparkle) and now we have the Rustic sock! Rustic sock is spun up from our own sheep here on the smallholding at a…
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Wooly Wednesday
This Wednesday I am going to look at a pattern or two from another source! I am currently knitting up the fabulous Arboreal sweater by Jenn Steingass (this link is in Ravelry, I am afraid there are no other links I could find where she sells the patterns outside Ravelry) I am knitting it up…