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Allotment Lessons Learnt, Part One
In 2018 we took on our first allotment and I’m completely hooked! Getting out into the fresh air and working hard whilst letting your mind wander is marvellous! We’ve learnt a lot this year, mainly due to the extreme weather of 2018, so I thought I would share our the lessons learnt from the first year of the allotment, to see if anyone else finds them useful.
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Little Songbird Knitting Co. Cellular Blanket
Sorry for the radio silence, but… I’ve had a baby! Baby ‘I’ was born in July weighing a healthy 7.11lbs! She was 1 week late, and is completely beautiful. I’ve been getting to grips with being a mummy and don’t seem to have time for much else, hence why there has been no post for the last 7 months!
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Sewing Baby Toys: Part One
Ages ago I bought some lovely fabric from the marvellous M is For Make with the intention of sewing baby toys. This gorgeous fabric has sat washed for months waiting to be utilised and finally at the start of my maternity leave I got round to using it!
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June WIPS 2018
Wow what a scorcher this summer has been so far! I could blame that on my June WIPS post actually being written in July, but the truth is I just forgot!
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May WIPS 2018
Hello from the UK, where we are at the end of our glorious May bank holiday, just in time for me to introduce my May WIPS!
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New Buttons From Textile Garden
Happy bank holiday Monday! Hope you’re all having an amazing weekend in this glorious sunshine! I thought I’d take a break from taming the jungle that is our garden to share with you some amazing buttons from Textile Garden I bought for some knitting I recently completed.
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April WIPS 2018
This post about my April WIPS will hopefully see the start of a new series of monthly posts where I do a monthly WIP update. I know I’ve tried to do series before and have always failed, but I’m hoping this one will be different and I’ll actually manage to stick to it!
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Derby International Women’s Day 2018
As you may have guessed from the title, this post is all about Derby International Women’s Day! For anyone who doesn’t know, International Women’s Day was on March 8th and it’s all about celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. It’s also about moving towards gender parity and inclusivity, which I love!
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Allotment Seed Purchases
Hello! Hope everyone is OK and not suffering from this cold weather too much! It’s making me feel very grumpy at the moment and really frustrated as I want to get out in the garden and do things! To cheer myself up until the spring arrives I thought I would write a post about my allotment seed purchases! I’m soooo excited to get going and can’t wait for the weather to get better so we can start planting! There is one upside to this weather though, I am getting to wear all of my lovely winter knits for much longer periods than normal and recently discovered that the wool wash on…
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New Year New Knits..Kind Of
Hello! I can’t believe it’s February already! Where did January go? Happy New Year to everyone, sorry that is so late! So far 2018 is already looking to be a good year! In our most recent exciting news, we have an allotment! We got it in January and I love it already! We were really lucky because the gentleman who had it before us left it all turned over and in a really good condition, so all we need to do is some weeding, planting and semi-structural work like building some raised beds. It even has a shed!
