Wool - Tribulations of Hand Spinning and Herbal Dyeing

Pencil roving is a long tube, about a pencil thickness, of wool fibres combed to alignment and then very slightly twisted to hold t...

Weaving is one of those crafts that looks intimidatingly complicated, with lots of new jargon and expensive kit.  How nice to find you ca...

Though the Elgin jumper  was designed to suit my sister,  as soon as I had tried it on,  I began planning to make another one for me. Exm...

"If you carry on practicing til you can draft smooth worsted yarn off the end of wool tops, you'll be getting your bus pass befo...

I sow sunflower seeds in pots at the   end of May, to keep the seedlings safe from the slugs, only planting out when they are big eno...

This bowl of walnut hulls resurfaced when I was clearing up in the garage. Originally, the walnut cases were green and must have fallen...