In these cold winter days I have been enjoying the rituals of the simple things…making bread, feeding the birds, reading… Pastimes that have been enjoyed for hundreds of years, activities that make us feel good, that slow us down and bring us joy. Usually we live our lives at a faster pace but this last year with lock downs and…
So I have been promising a cow parsley stitch-along for a while now…. While we’re all spending more time indoors and not able to go out and see the cow parsley in the lanes for ourselves, I thought it had to be the perfect time to make the stitch-along happen. I love the thought of people stitching away on something…
Springtime means that we start to eat a little differently. We can take our meals in the sunshine outdoors. Slaws and salads replace stews and roasts. This is simple coleslaw recipe that I recently showed on my YouTube vlog. The great thing about this coleslaw is that it’s so adaptable, using whatever you have to hand. I often add red…
For our Vintage Yuletide Advent Calendar 2019, we introduced you to a little Victorian family getting ready for their Christmas celebrations. Joe and Beth Banford live with their children Tommy and Florence in a little cottage. Today we find them out for a walk. We thought you might enjoy finding out a little more about the family and what has…
We’ve wanted to update our logo for a while now, so that it reflects our love of nature and the intrinsic link that it has in the work that we do. We decided fairly quickly that we wanted the logo to be a bird. We considered the robin – this little bird has my heart and the feeling of its…
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To Autumn John Keats *** I LOVE this time of the year. The pace…
I love to embroider. I spend countless hours creating art with thread. Nature as always is my inspiration. My stitches follow nature – whether it be holly bushes or the new robin in my garden.. At this time of the year our hedgerows are filled with graceful cow parsley stems, their delicate white flowers dipping and rising in the breeze.…
Dear oh dear – there was a lot of waffle and digression in this one… Links and info to accompany the podcast – Socks Sugar Frost socks IG: @vanillawool Yarn – Regia Tweed 4PLY Thérèse socks Same pattern as above Yarn – my Thérèse yarn Kitchener stitch tag IG: @hedgerowyarns Stripy socks – West Yorkshire Spinner yarn – WYS Signature 4 Ply.…