Tyddyn Bryn

history

• From Craft Table to Sheepfold: The Evolution of My Yarn Business

  

  What began in 2007 as a creative outlet for my out-of-control making habits—selling handmades under the name Elliefants Delights at markets in Abergavenny, Cardiff, and Newport—has grown into a full-time, slow-living, wool-growing life. From writing my first knitting patterns in 2009 to dyeing yarn over a wood fire, buying a Welsh hill farm in 2014,…

  Ellie

  July 22, 2025

  animals, Building work, Craftiness, Wanderings, Working the land

  building work, evolution, gardening, history, knitting, self sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, wool, yarn

• The barn circa 1960!!

  So this was our old barn in an old aerial photo!!!! The big Agri barns aren’t there, neither is the tin hut but there are lots of smaller barns and the land behind the barns is so much flatter looking, without the slurry pit and the spoil heaps which have sculpted themselves into our garden…

  Ellie

  January 5, 2018

  Building work, The tin hut, Wanderings, Working the land

  barns, historical photos, history