Sat 05 Jul (4m ago)

Not the most eventful two weeks. Experimenting is a lot of trial and error and I don’t have much to show for all the errors… I have however finish the Grobbendonk jumper, the last sleeve I made with this year’s wool.

Sat 21 Jun (4m ago)

We’re back in London for the next few months so getting set up again. I tended to my garden as first priority when I got back. The tomatoes had grown somewhat in the two weeks away

Sat 14 Jun (4m ago)

I’ve been in France the last two weeks, so there were limited things I could do, but I do have stuff to talk about!  I had two main crafts with me; the knitted beige blouse I needed to finish, and sewing projects. First the blouse. I picked this up again

Sat 31 May (5m ago)

I have this Japanese-style chair project on my list, which I have the timber for. Progress has been limited; I did cut the timber down to the right sizes, but got stumped because the wood is very curved. Meaning, if I want to glue two pieces side by side,

Sat 17 May (5m ago)

At the start of the week I dismantled the cabinet that I built a few months ago. I learned a lot from making it, it was relatively good at storing all my tools, but I just thought it was super ugly and I didn’t like hanging the tools on the doors; they mo

Sat 03 May (6m ago)

I found a rain collection design online that I thought would work for me. I needed some very tall bamboo sticks and I attempted to reverse engineer the design (see picture below).

Sat 19 Apr (6m ago)

This week I attempted round two of the tarp rain catcher, this time with a friend. I bought some taller stakes so the tarp can be held higher up. We dug it into the ground about 30cm, and piled rocks around it to secure it. I used tent pegs with string to

Sat 12 Apr (7m ago)

The sun graced us again this week. For some reason, I went on a rabbit-hole-tangent that led me to recreate our calendar. Hold the eye rolls while I explain…  The exact history is not super clear to me, but our Gregorian “solar” calendar was made by a Po