Month June 2016

I am making about two batts a night, so this box will take a while before it is full! I am trying not to mix the colors up too much so it doesn’t come out gray when it is spun.…

It appears that hanging beeswax in the sun for several weeks does appears to bleach it! Unfortunately the bigger bits of beeswax I have put outside haven’t bleached so I’m trying a different approach with them. This entails melting the…

We got out for the 5 km walk to the castle this morning. The first since…I don’t! Probably because it means getting up at 6:30am.

Enough asparagus for breakfast, but surely must be coming to an end now.

I have started to cart the wool. Here are the first three batts. I’m doing one a day so it could be a few weeks before It’s ready to spin!

We got lost coming out of Cordoba. We both commented on the highly unlikely fact that there was a new bridge crossing the river, and then realized that it wasn’t a new bridge but we were on the wrong road.…

Here is my birthday wool that I dyed and it is hanging out to dry. The white is the silk which I am degumming, I didn’t think it needed too much degumming so I will see what it’s like when…

First of June, and we went this afternoon picking asparagus. We managed to collect as much asparagus as we would have done got in the season it really has been quite successful yet for us! Normally by this time of…

Here are the sheets beeswax which I’ve hung on the line to bleach.  They are wrapped in clingfilm is fall on the floor.