Getting ready for Yarndale 18

In the garden in May

Making some steampunk crochet hooks

New sheep pompom garlands

New to my Etsy shop – the little sheep pom poms made into garlands

Yarndale 17

Getting ready for my stall at Yarndale – its that  time of year again

http://yarndale.co.uk/

Spring into Wool

I have a stall at next weeks Spring into Wool event at Leeds Grammar school www.springintowool.co.uk 

The little sheep are very excited …..

…. and I am busy making more.

… and some different sheep for the bags.

Early Spring Flowers

Forget me nots in the spring sunshine

The bees love the Pulmonaria – otherwise known as Boys and Girls, lungwort or Mary and Joseph

….. and the rhubarb is getting off to a fine start

Hebden Bridge Open Gardens

I have said that I will open my garden again this year, as part of Hebden Bridge’s open cultural weekend on 7 – 9th July. This year it is being run on the same weekend as the Open Studios event. This is really good as it makes me do the gardening – no excuses!

First step was getting some wires up against the back wall (thanks Tony!) to pin the gooseberries to.

I first came across this idea in the apprentice garden at Quarry Bank Mill and the gooseberries seem to like it – lots of air around the berries.

The next was getting all the strawberries up off the ground into hanging baskets and away from the slugs. We seem to live next to the spawning ground for all West Yorkshire slugs

So much frogspawn in the garden pond this year, that there obviously wasn’t room for any more and the frogs had to lay on the side

Did a stall at Yarndale last weekend with my NEW sign! Took the little sheeps and the new grass bags