Week 41 of 2025

No time for crafting this week!

It was a week of canning and preserving garden vegetables - the shelves are filling up and canning should be finished soon (it is a lot of work, but I am glad during the winter).

Also a week of cleaning (living on a dusty gravel road has taught me to have a major fall clean when the weather turns cold and we don't open the windows anymore). GingerSnap! was so helpful when I was cleaning the windows.

The harvest moon this week.

All the best!♥︎

Week 40 of 2025

This week I finished combing enough of the wool I washed in August for a sweater (I hope!) -

I combed about 300g of the white and 50g of the brown.

I combined the wool with some brown cashmere and white Angora that I have had for quite a while. I also added some leftover bits of handspun that I cut up, and a bit of sparkle.

I used a drum carder to blend all the fibres (over 400g total).

This is the first skein.

Photos from Around -

I had some company while working in the yard.

Molly didn't want to share her broken egg treat with one of the young chickens.

Pouring rain this morning, but the chickens still came out for a treat.

It is interesting to see who eats with who.

All the best!♥︎