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Spring Newsletter Finally spring is here -then it’s gone and now it’s back again! We have had beautiful sunshine through to snow over the last few weeks, but back to sunshine now, so let’s hope it lasts for the sake of our seedlings! Everything seems to be late this year, the nettles are just [...]
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Also tagged Alternative Hen weekends, courses, craft, dye plants, Felting, felting with a pony, fleece, fleece to felt weeks, foraging, Goats, hen, hen weekends, holidays, home-cooking, Kerrow House, last minute offers, local fleece, local musicians, local walks, making natural dyes, natural dyeing weekend, Offers, Prehistoric cookery, Prehistoric cookery weekend, relaxation retreats, Responsible Travel Award, spinning, Spring Relaxation Retreat, Struy Inn, Wild Food Foraging, Yoga, Yurt
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Fleece to Felt Week
Mongolian style felt-making We have just finished our fleece to felt week for this year. We had an excellent group of people and a lovely week. We had a great dyeing session making nearly 30 shades of colour, we visited Nathalie on her farm, where we saw her beautiful Shetland sheep, we also had a [...]
Felt-making with pony -how we did it
I thought it might be quite handy to have a few instructions in case anyone wants to try this method at home! Part of the finished wall hanging! If you have watched the short film below, it gives you some idea of how we did it. We started by washing a dyeing local fleece. [...]
Posted in Craft - home & abroad
Also tagged Cheviot fleece, dyed, fleece, hand dyed, Indigo, Madder, mongolian, natural dyes, needle felting, over dyed, Scotland, Shetland wool, Strathglass, wool
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Getting ready for the summer
For the last few weeks Alex and I have been getting ready for the season. Our friends Ele and Craig have lent us thier Mongolian Ger (Yurt), which we put up with the help of Julie last weekend. It was a last minute decision, as it looked like the weather was going to turn for the rest [...]
Posted in Craft - home & abroad, What's going on at the woods
Also tagged alpaca fleece, fleeces, gorse, Indigo, Madder, Mongolian Ger, Yurt
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Permaculture magazine article
This Spring you can find us in Permaculture magazine. I wrote a ‘how to’ article on Natural Dyeing and Felt-Making. It’s an interesting magazine full of lots of great articles, with a really good course listings in the back.
Posted in Press & more...
Also tagged craft, felt making, Felting, fibres, fleece, mongolia, naturally dyed wool, wool
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Growing Things!
At last we have our Polytunnel and it’s going up. It is amazing how many parts it came in. Luckily Alex neatly laid them all out in the barn and has systematically put it all together, adding his own little bits and bobs here and there. Before the skin was on Our soil has only [...]
Posted in What's going on at the woods
Also tagged dye garden, dye seeds, heather, Highland, Indigo, Ladies Bedstraw, Ladies Mantle, Madder, making a dye garden, Marigold, polytunnel, Strathglass, Woad
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