Home Spun Shawl

Not posted for a while, but here's a shawl made from my handspun Alpaca/Merino and silk.

Julie

Garden for wildlife

 

 

My front garden is for wildlife and full of wildflowers and definitely not boring, unlike my neighbours boring grass and concrete

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Monday

Been busy processing a Jacob fleece today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for visiting.

 

JL

A Trip To Crich Tramway Village

On Wednesday my other half and I decided to take a trip out to the Crich Tramway Village. What started off as a cloudy day developed into a lovely sunny one.
We took a lovely leisurely drive into Derbyshire the countryside is really pretty.

Once we arrived we took a ride on an open topped tram, it's only a short ride but definitely worth it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is a lovely woodland walk so on the return journey we got off at the stop.

 

 

 

 

 

 The Green Man.

 

 

 

Resident sculpture working on two large acorns for a commission.

 



This is the Storytellers chair.

 

 

 

 

Thanks for visiting.

JL

 

 

Etsy Shop

 

 

I have now opened an Etsy shop.

 

There's only a couple of yarns on at the moment but it's a start.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JL

A Girl Can Never Have Enough Fleece.

 

You know what it's like you're surrounded by fleece of various breeds but one catches your eye that you've not tried before. So what's a girl supposed to do, you guessed it, buy some. What caught my eye while browsing the internet was lovely Gotland fleece from Pedwardine Gotlands in Lincolnshire.

So I contacted the lovely Amanda who was busy shearing and sorting fleece for orders she already had, luckily she had enough to go round.

 

When it arrived I had to get started right away. So washed and dried spinning began. It is a beautiful steely grey colour and is lovely to spin.

I've spun to singles so now I'm going to ply them.

I'll post that at a later date.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for visiting.

JL 

Early Sunday Morning.

Got up at 5.15 this morning, couldn't sleep. I'm a bit of an insomniac.

The sun was coming up through the trees so I think a beautiful day is in store.

Went out to feed the hens and the resident wood pigeon was waiting on the roof for his breakfast.

So I loaded up the bird table and before I'd put the lid on the feed bin he was there.

                                                                                    

Thanks for visiting.  JL