Last week I went for my final visit to the Rhosygilwen walled garden where John has very kindly been tending a dye patch for me. I gathered the roots and tops of the Lady’s Bedstraw as well as apple leaves, a few almost-over dahlia tops, some black eyed susie flowers and a few fennel fronds to test with eco-printing. Continue reading End of summer’s yield
Sat in the corner of my studio for quite some time now has been an old and leaky washing up bowl. Meanwhile, finding something suitable for the core of my felt footstool has been bothering me for quite some time. Six months in fact. Continue reading Repurposing plastic
This very timely article (from my point of view, ahem) has been published in the Guardian. Mulesing . The original reason I stopped using merino wool. Must be excruciatingly painful.
Watch this space for an update about Cambrian Mountains wool…
After what seems like an awfully long time (I started work on the booklet in February!) the Ceredigion Art Trail is finally underway. Continue reading Art Trail Underway
The dye garden at Rhosygilwen has been carefully tended by John and is in full bloom. It seems sad in some ways to cut these beautiful flowers in their full glory, but that’s why they were planted and so that’s what will be done. Because Rhosygilwen is quite a way away from where we live, we have to make the most of our trips there. Continue reading Dye Plants
A digression for this blog. Today I am sending off a square of knitting for my friend Jan Martin’s blanket. And this is a post to tell the story of both the blanket and the square. Continue reading Jan’s Square
We had a fruitful evening last night at Penlon Cottage (home of the micro brewery*), where we went to watch and help with the shearing of the sheep that are to provide the bulk of the wool for the project work, along with wool from Ystrad Organics. Continue reading Sheep Shearing at Penlon Cottage
The little coat is made and the first dye pot of Spring has been concocted. A lovely way to spend Easter weekend.
Spring time and it’s going to be a yellow month. Daffodils all about, the hillsides punctuated by golden gorse (fantastic smell of coconut with a handful of gorse flowers by the way…)
One of the exciting aspects of this project is that I am getting to prolong my felting shelf life and speed up production courtesy of the marvellous Groovi rolling machine. Continue reading Taming the Groovi
