Monday, 3 September 2012. I seized a rare sunny day with dryish plants to start harvesting my dye plants. Gensita tinctoria - dyers green weed- this I am drying. Some of my gensita had gone to seed while I was away so I cut some to try and see what it was like to dye with in this state. Some plants lose all their colour when they have gone to seed. Look what is coming over! Harvesting became a race. Tuesday, 28 August 2012. Never throw your bananas away.

The Craft Fair at the Fairfield. Halls did turn out to be a success. And I must thank the ladies of the Croydon. Ice rink on the forecourt. Bright lights from the Ferris wheel. Tess spinning Angora fluff at our stall. My good friend Roz was there with her friend Anne, selling the most beautiful hand-embroidered cards, Christmas.

A really big thank-you to all who sponsored me to give up most of my wardrobe for the Six Items Challenge. You raised a rather wonderful 114. For Labour Behind the Label. An organisation working hard to highlight the perils of fast fashion. What is fast fashion? The Six Items Challenge.

My only excuse can be that I worked all weekend. Weaving one pick each with eight shuttles is sloooooooooow. Sunday, 4 March 2012. Is it really two months since my last post? See the bout still taped to the lease stick in the left of the photo? Links to this post.

We have been sent the following press release regarding a new website dedicated to TB in alpacas. Dianne Summers, Dr Gina Bromage, and recently resigned B. Chair Mike Birch have developed a new website dedicated to the subject of bTB in Camelids.

Sunday, 31 August 2014. Monday, 14 July 2014. Sunday, 1 June 2014. Working with the glass kiln. Sunday, 25 May 2014. Sunday, 20 April 2014. Hobbit holiday and Wonderwool preperations. Friday, 11 April 2014. Experimenting with my Glass Kiln. My blog about our life as we settle back into suberbia, selling exotic and some British fibre, as well as growing our own veg. Our first Cria of the year! .

Celebrating WOOL for what it is. This is the very last post for WOVEMBER 2014, announcing the WINNERS for the WOVEMBERWAL. And the WOVEMBER PHOTO COMPETITION. the project that most thoroughly celebrates the inspirational and material qualities of THE SHEEP.

Celebrating WOOL for what it is. We are in the process of moving all the content from this website to a self-hosted platform which will give us more flexibility with the design and layout of the site. Please bear with us through these changes and thank you for helping us to celebrate WOOL this WOVEMBER! See you at WOVEMBER.

A weblog, mostly about knitting but other topics appear. Sir Edmund Anderson, 1530-1605. my 13th Great Grandfather Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Baron Anderson of Boughton. My 12th Great Grandfather Miles Crosby 1483-1538 was a Royal Archer during the reign of King Henry VIII. I love these discoveries in my genealogy.