The Wildcraft Blog

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We’ve moved

The Wildcraft blog is now located here: http://www.wildcraft.co.uk/shop/blog

Back again, with some socks

Ahem, we interrupt this lengthy interlude with a new blog post. Our apologies for the delay, Goldfishgirl has mostly been spinning, and knitting socks.
See…?!

Swallowtail Shawl - finished at last!

A long time ago, I blogged excitedly about a Swallowtail Shawl that I’d just cast on.
It was my first real lace project and I did encounter a few problems early on, mainly a dropped stitch that needed rescuing. But after that I ploughed on and was going well until I reached the border, at [...]

An old friend

I’ve been having a very crafty weekend so far, as I decided to rouse my old Ashford traditional wheel from his sleeping place in the loft today. This is the wheel that I first learned to spin on, way back when I was at school doing my GCSE’s. With the permission of my [...]

Caught in the act!

Now I know how Willow’s ear tag was broken, the culprit was caught on camera this afternoon…

In the meantime, his cousins were scraping the bottom of the barrel. Or at least they were trying, they’re not quite big enough to reach yet.

It’s hard to believe that it was only a month since Buffy’s lambs [...]

Lambs

I’ve not been so good with the blogging lately, but I have a good excuse, because I’ve been preoccupied with lambing. All three of our Ryeland ewes have now had their lambs. This year’s Ryelands are all destined to become either pedigree breeding animals, or woolly pets, which is why I’ve named them, [...]

Welcome, grab a cuppa, take a seat!

So, here I am with a blog on my very own web site, I feel all grown up. If you’ve come here from my old blog, thanks for coming over, and if you’re new, welcome!  This blog will be pretty similar to the old one, with the same crafty goodies, lots of yummy fibre [...]