tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80751151369284293692024-03-04T21:45:48.601-08:00LORNE HILL FARMCraft and Quilting workshops at Lorne Hill Farm
East Garston, Hungerford, Berkshire. RG17 7HSLorne Hill Farm Craft workshopshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06165871417678983922noreply@blogger.comBlogger348125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075115136928429369.post-56885815944953542812020-04-20T08:54:00.000-07:002020-04-20T09:05:29.813-07:00And by the way.....It's probably time Jonathan slowed down a bit.<br />
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He came back from the cattle yesterday saying one of the cows was pooping very strangely......turned out it was a calf.<br />
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And then this morning he asked me what that Kite was doing next to a sheep. Well, it was a lamb.<br />
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We love telling the story of when Jonathan's father looked up on a hillside and commented on what a good looking herd of cattle was up there......they were pig huts.<br />
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And there has been a pair of swallows flying around the house all day!<br />
Lorne Hill Farm Craft workshopshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06165871417678983922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075115136928429369.post-12297141499779861932020-04-20T08:29:00.000-07:002020-04-20T08:29:46.777-07:00We've Got to Stop......I just had a flurry of e mails from quilting friends and we were all worrying about not accomplishing anything - me included. I keep starting stuff and then moving onto something else. Twice last week I put the hoover in the hall ready to do a bit of housework. Then, come evening, after stepping round it all day Jonathan asked me if I wanted him to put it away, and I said he might as well.<br />
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Anyway, after all the e mails I went upstairs to get something, looked out the window, and decided there was a lesson there:<br />
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Just snoozing in the warm sun.<br />
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We are all so worried about not being busy when we should all just ease into a slower pace and enjoy it. <br />
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Spring is coming along beautifully - I had to deliver newsletters around the village yesterday (wearing gloves) and thought everyone's gardens looked so pretty.<br />
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Up in the wood the Bluebells are out.<br />
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All the trees are in blossom and the Tulips everywhere are beautiful this year.<br />
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I'm so pleased with the lovely Wallflowers Eileen gave me back in the Autumn<br />
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this picture doesn't really do them justice - their scent is glorious. My mother used to plant loads of Wallflowers every Autumn and her garden would burst into life every spring.<br />
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So really, I think we need to just kick back and enjoy taking time to 'smell the roses'.<br />
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Right, got to get on now: I need to get the washing in, then do the ironing, hoover the house and if I have time I'll get some gardening done.<br />
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Lorne Hill Farm Craft workshopshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06165871417678983922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075115136928429369.post-49184519894533004742020-04-16T07:52:00.000-07:002020-04-16T07:52:00.259-07:00Still Bleating on.....It's all about sheep around here. Lambing is coming to an end and the first lot have been moved out into the big field.<br />
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Well, Easter came and went very quickly - Hot Cross Buns<br />
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and now we're back to sheep, sheep and more sheep.<br />
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My little pen of four lambs has now increased to 12 - and it isn't really a lot of fun, although thank Goodness we've had such lovely weather.<br />
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Four times a day I have to wash up all the little bottles<br />
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The aim is to get all the lambs confidently drinking from the bottles on a rack, but because they come to me in dribs and drabs (no orphans, just rejected by their mums) they are all at different stages, so instead of me looking serenely on as they fill themselves up, this is the reality<br />
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But slowly they are getting the hang of it, and yesterday I managed to get four on the rack<br />
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As far as the war with the rooks is going, Jonathan set up an ingenious tunnel into the chicken house that we hope will be so daunting they won't risk going in.<br />
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It certainly terrified the chickens - only one dared to come out this morning.<br />
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Away from the animals I am persevering with my Skype piano lessons. By the second lesson I managed to tape the phone up to the piano quite successfully, and I thought all was going well. My teacher said she was having trouble hearing me though, and asked where the microphone was on my phone. Well, I had no idea, and she suggested it could be on the bottom. Well, off course it is, and turning the phone onto the side meant she could actually hear my beautiful playing. This solved another of life's mysteries for me too. I'd always wondered why young people always hold their phones horizontally when they are talking to someone - I thought it was a strange affectation, but now I know they are talking into the microphone. I shall now be far more patient when my mother tries to talk to me through the TV remote.<br />
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What else am I doing in these long, isolated days?<br />
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A bit of knitting<br />
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It's funny how the bigger picture has become so different very quickly, but life on a farm keeps pretty much to the usual routine. Every morning my first task is to let out the chickens and feed them.<br />
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I'd like to say that I collect the eggs too but either their laying has become extremely sporadic or something is getting there before me.<br />
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NEWS FLASH - this blog is taking so long to load that I leave it and go off and do other things while it is working. Well, I just went to look out the window and saw a rook with something big and white in his beak, sitting on the fencing around the chicken run. I watched as it flew down into the grass and then stealthily went outside. He saw me and flew into the geese field so I ran down and he flew off. I went to where he had been and there it was - a whole egg. I could hardly believe it - so they HAVE been stealing the eggs. This means war....<br />
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So that's the morning routine - all done by 8.00am.<br />
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And then I figure out what to do with the rest of the day....and that can take all day. Although, following the News Flash above, I shall probably spend all day staking out the chicken house.Lorne Hill Farm Craft workshopshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06165871417678983922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075115136928429369.post-73582512584766218562020-03-27T09:04:00.000-07:002020-03-27T09:04:02.186-07:00Discombobulateddescribes exactly how I'm feeling at the moment. George got back from New Zealand so I am now under house arrest. <br />
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not sleeping, just sort of flopping on a chair in the kitchen, hanging my head in despair.<br />
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Having obeyed the rules and not stockpiled, I had to go to the supermarket on Monday to get two weeks' worth of food in because I was picking up George the next day and knew we'd have to isolate. I was thrilled when I got there because the shelves were full! I managed to get everything I needed and made my way triumphantly to the till. Sadly I had to put most of it back because most of the items were limited to three per person.<br />
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Feeling a bit concerned about what I was going to do, I noticed an ad from Quintin Catering, who catered for Victoria's wedding, and immediately ordered a box delivery from him. I was so pleased when Jake dropped this off hours later<br />
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An abundance of food so we are sorted!<br />
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Also, the chicken have started laying finally - a maximum of 3 a day, so we have (a few) eggs.<br />
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I walk over and check on the calves everyday - the twins are doing well<br />
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Calving is coming along nicely. We are well over half way through now and I walk over most days (weather permitting) to see what's happening. The twins have got a lot bigger<br />
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And I arrived just after this one had been born. He got up and went straight to the wrong mother!<br />
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It's so funny when they are a bit older and go haring around the barn in the late afternoon.<br />
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then I realised I was just procrastinating so took myself off to Waitrose in Wantage and thought I'd do my usual browse and buy. I was astounded! The shelves were completely and utterly empty. I know the media has been going on about it but in Wantage? They didn't even have laundry conditioner. I've never seen anything like it. So I came back home with two onions.<br />
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I fared better in Hungerford yesterday - got some meat supplies from Christian Alba the butcher and the rest in Tesco's. The only thing I couldn't get was potatoes so that wasn't so bad.<br />
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I also got my Mother's Mothering Sunday flowers from Martin and the Magpie - I've mentioned this Florist before because I think he's great. Her little basket of Grape Hyacinths arrived yesterday and she was thrilled with them.<br />
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I think I've adapted to this slow pace of life now. I've put together a small quilt which reminded me that before all this madness, in the last workshop, Helen finally managed to put her quilt blocks together. We were all so pleased for her - her first quilt and it's so pretty<br />
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Another happy story is that we had a Repair Café in our Village Hall the other week - various volunteers put themselves forward and we could take along anything in the hopes that someone would be able to repair it. I took along a little musical table that my father had brought back from his travels many years ago and which was now in a very sorry state. I really thought it was beyond repair and so was absolutely thrilled yesterday when I got a call from Jon Hing to say my table was ready - it really looks so beautiful.<br />
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And that's it really.....Lorne Hill Farm Craft workshopshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06165871417678983922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075115136928429369.post-45760637727653478342020-03-04T12:19:00.000-08:002020-03-04T12:21:25.791-08:00Good News on a Rainy DaySo, that heifer we've been watching and waiting on for the last two and a half weeks (although I was unconvinced; she looked too skinny to me) has finally had her calf<br />
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and when I walked over to have a look at it there was a surprise in store - a twin!<br />
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Mum has rather shocking eyes.... perhaps a side effect of calving.<br />
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Anyway - some rather exciting news on what was otherwise a very wet, dreary, grey day. Just the sort of day, in fact, when I would prefer to hunker down under a beautiful quilt like the one Frankie was making in the workshop the other day<br />
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I love hexagons, the smaller the better, and love the ones' Barbara is putting together for a seat cover<br />
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I'd love to start working with them again but I MUST NOT - not until I've finished these blooming Magic Lanterns:<br />
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and just to make me feel even less productive than I am, Ros showed us what she's working on at the moment - the Attic 24 Dahlia blanket which has moved into shades that are a bit on the bright side for us but which we will think will be less startling as the stripes turn darker<br />
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and then she produced this masterpiece in the making <br />
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Frankly, all we could do was gasp.........Lorne Hill Farm Craft workshopshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06165871417678983922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075115136928429369.post-41892059867396004752020-02-16T09:04:00.003-08:002020-02-16T09:04:37.198-08:00Rainy Days....Well, when you look outside and all you can see is this<br />
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most crafty people seem to light a fire, make a cup of coffee and sit luxuriating in the cosiness of everything, crocheting a blanket or something. <br />
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I tend to go from window to window, moaning about how vile it is, try and take the dogs out and come back in soaked to the skin, sit staring at the computer for a bit to see what other people are doing - and they are all doing so much! - drink another cup of tea, moan a bit more, and generally accomplish absolutely nothing. I know it's really dire when I look at the TV pages in the paper and decide what to watch that evening.<br />
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Anyway, at about 3 o'clock this afternoon it did finally stop raining so I went for a long walk and felt a bit more at one with the world.<br />
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I have managed to finish a couple of things..... a knitted hat for my Mum because she liked the one I made Isaac so much, (never admire anything I make unless you truly want one for yourself)<br />
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and I've finally finished the needlepoint I've been doing for an awfully long time<br />
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Just got to make it into a cushion now.<br />
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Other people have been busy - Sue completed her beautiful bed runner<br />
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and Carole and Toni came over last Thursday to baste the stunning quilt Carole has been making for her granddaughter. (I just sat chatting all morning.....I even forgot to make them a cup of coffee).<br />
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So much easier to do it sitting up at a table rather than crawling all over the floor and the quilt is really lovely<br />
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Jackie has made the Luna Lupin Fawn - she bought the kit as a Christmas present to herself - it was a promotion they did and you didn't know what it was until you opened the parcel. She saved it to last on Christmas Day - but she isn't obsessed or anything.<br />
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Anyway, back to the schedule: the Lynne Johnson days will continue on every second and last day of the month, and there are some new quilts to tempt you. I have a feeling this will be my next project:<br />
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I think that was Barbara's and it is really lovely.<br />
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We have a couple of knitting days - little mug cosies on the 19th February<br />
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which are a nice way of using up bits of left over yarn and then on the 1st of April a lovely Icelandic cushion - it's made up of six inch squares so they are easy little pieces to work on and will result in a good sized cushion.<br />
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Then on the 4th of March something a little bit different for us: Indian Block printing<br />
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We'll be making simple bags and aprons and then printing on them using equipment we'll be renting from The Arty Crafty Place - a good way to see if you like it before investing in everything you need yourself.<br />
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And then lastly on the 18th of March a small Easter Bucket bag - this was one Sandra made for Christmas and filled it with chocolates but with Easter or Spring fabric I think it will make a lovely gift. Doesn't have to be for chocolates though - Sandra stores the spare loo roll in hers!!<br />
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So that's it.....only up until Easter because although we have some good workshops in mind, I need a bit more time for preparation.Lorne Hill Farm Craft workshopshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06165871417678983922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075115136928429369.post-81454503008438392392020-01-15T09:21:00.000-08:002020-01-15T09:25:22.852-08:00New Year - New Decade.....and a big new start.<br />
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Well, maybe not so big, but a new start anyway.<br />
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The family business which should have been sorted by Christmas has only finally finished this week, so I need to stop being distracted and get back to being a chilled, productive and enthusiastic crafter. Although some people may dispute that I was ever particularly chilled or productive, but I think I'm fairly enthusiastic.<br />
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Even though the blog went on the back burner the last few months, the workshops didn't and there were some amazing creations.<br />
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Both Ros and I were able to finish our Axminster wool mats in time for Christmas - and for mine to get posted off to a certain little boy's room in Jersey<br />
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We both really enjoyed crocheting these, and with a bit of footfall they should flatten out nicely....<br />
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Janet finished her lovely hexagon quilt top<br />
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Something particularly special about this quilt is that a few years ago a very good friend of ours, who came to a lot of workshops, died and her husband offered all of her sewing bits and pieces to us. In the bundle were lots of old Laura Ashley hexagons - most cut out and basted onto papers, some pieced but all discarded a long time ago. They have sat in the workshop for a long time but as I was watching Janet work I remembered them and wondered if they were the same size. They were and we are so pleased that Janet was able to use them in her quilt!<br />
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Jackie managed to complete two more of her Luna Lupin friends<br />
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Denise managed to finish her lovely Christmas quilt - I really love the dark background<br />
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There were lots of great reindeer - this is Lynn's which I loved seeing in her window as I drove past over Christmas<br />
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And, finally, our little group of sewing friends exchanged home-made Christmas gifts again:<br />
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Excellent gifts - a Christmas cushion, a book cover, a personalised pincushion, a printed shopper and a gift bag. (I'm afraid my offerings were a bit more low key: felt tree ornaments - but I was stressed so that's my excuse.)<br />
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Which leads me nicely to our Spring workshops here at Lorne Hill Farm. I am working on the schedule now and we have some exciting plans - as well as quilt-making, knitting, perhaps a bit of macramé, at least 3 of the workshops are inspired by the gifts above: a book cover, an Easter Egg bag and a day printing bags. I will publish the schedule as soon as it's done and hopefully you'll find something which suits you.Lorne Hill Farm Craft workshopshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06165871417678983922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075115136928429369.post-69293110613300913882019-09-29T07:24:00.000-07:002019-09-29T07:24:07.315-07:00AutumnWell, it seems Autumn has arrived. Last Monday morning I was cleaning out the chickens in shorts and a tee shirt, and then in the afternoon the skies darkened and the rain came. And it hasn't really stopped since. It was a long summer, with family worries constantly in the background, so I haven't been as busy as I could have been.<br />
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At least the rain meant the return of interesting fungi - although I am getting a bit tired of my friends sending me photos of amazing fungi that they've just stumbled upon, whereas I take an awful lot of effort and am rewarded with quite mundane finds. For example,<br />
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I found this on an old stump, and had to get onto my hands and knees to photograph it, and all the while Millie was going absolutely bonkers and tying me in knots with her lead. I thought maybe there was something bad about it that was freaking her out. I just kept holding her down until I felt a sharp pain in my leg. Suddenly I was aware that there were hundreds of wasps flying around us because I was kneeling on their nest, and poor Millie was getting stung. Our getaway was made all the more difficult because the lead was wrapped around my legs, but we did get away, with me smacking away wasps from both Millie and me, and yanking at my hair because they were caught in that. We both suffered, and had to take anti-histamine to help us recover from our ordeal.<br />
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Anyway, other than fungi hunting, I have drawn up the new schedule, and we have some good workshops coming up. There's a couple of absolute beginner quilting workshops; hand- piecing this Wednesday and hexagons on Wednesday 6th November, some Christmas decorations to sew on Wednesday 20th November, knitting socks with Ros on Wednesday 16th October, and of course wreath making with Linda on Wednesday 11th and Saturday 14th December - either the morning or afternoons.<br />
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And there's been plenty going on in the workshop. Glenys is forging ahead with her seat covers<br />
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Ros knitted a beautiful shawl<br />
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and Lynne produced another work of art to inspire her Medallion class members<br />
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Still, it brightens up these grey days!Lorne Hill Farm Craft workshopshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06165871417678983922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075115136928429369.post-58249414162804669202019-08-18T13:00:00.000-07:002019-08-18T13:00:00.755-07:00At Long Last.....I can declare my Medallion Quilt well and truly finished....<br />
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Don't look too long - just scan over it.<br />
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How many mistakes? Oh Lord, I can hardly bare to look at it but in the end it was just a matter of getting the thing done - and apologies to Lynne Johnson: this is what a quilt looks like when you don't listen to the teacher and carry on regardless of whether things are working out or not.<br />
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Mo very kindly said it must have taken me hours - clearly she doesn't know the half of it.<br />
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I think I started it in 2011. At the time I was very aware of how much quilters spent on fabric and wanted to show that it could be done using fabric you already have. I selected four dresses I really liked, but which were at least 20 years old. One was a Miss Selfridge, two were Laura Ashleys and the third was one I'd bought when I'd gone for an interview in London when I was 23!! I was also given some Liberty fabric and the rest would be white cotton.<br />
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To begin with the central Medallion was unpicked at least 5 times before it went right. <br />
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Back in 2012 I had got this far:<br />
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I started quilting it!<br />
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Lorne Hill Farm Craft workshopshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06165871417678983922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075115136928429369.post-69325628663993111222019-07-18T10:34:00.001-07:002019-07-18T10:34:47.217-07:00Horror in The WorkshopWe had a great day making lovely coin purses in the workshop yesterday<br />
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However, a very bad thing happened in the morning. I pulled out a drawer to select a fabric and sitting there, looking up at me, was the biggest spider I've ever seen in my life. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say it was the size of a dinner plate. I ran from the room in horror, gibbering incoherently. The five ladies at the workshop rushed into the room to see what was the matter. Three of them slunk back without saying a word (they know who they are) but Sheila gamely (proving what a game old bird she is) approached the drawer and grabbed the spider.<br />
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As we all looked on with awe and respect she walked to the door with the trespasser and then flicked it out the door - but she missed! - and he went scurrying towards the back of the room. Then Sandra came forward with a large glass jar, Sheila slipped a piece of card under it and the creature was despatched.<br />
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Anyway, at last week's workshop Fay showed us how busy she's been and stunned us with another beautiful quilt.<br />
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Such a bright and sunny summer quilt.<br />
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Meanwhile, on the farm, the combine has been dusted down and harvest has started - and I went harvesting myself this afternoon at Q Gardens Pick Your Own in Milton; there was so much fruit, it was fantastic. The Cherry Trees were so heavy with fruit you didn't need to use the ladders - just reach out and the cherries fell into your hand (some accidently fell into my mouth).<br />
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Lorne Hill Farm Craft workshopshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06165871417678983922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075115136928429369.post-38317995717616522522019-06-14T03:57:00.000-07:002019-06-14T04:05:51.787-07:00GlowingThere are few things better than taking the dogs out just as night falls and seeing a tiny speck of light shining in the grass<br />
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a glow worm! And once you've spotted one, you suddenly see them all! Little glow worms (they are beetles really) with their lights shining brightly in their tails to catch the attention of the males which can be more than 50 yards away. And I've just discovered that they feed on slugs so that has to be a bonus!<br />
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We really should get a night camera. The other evening I received this email:<br />
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<em>"Would you believe I am camping on your site busily sewing in the ends of a wall hanging for my son for his 50th. It is a Barn owl and a real one has just flown by. Magic"</em><br />
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I told her she absolutely had to bring the hanging up to the workshop the next day so we could all see it.<br />
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It really is stunning and Sandra told us she got the design from a book called Animal Quilts by Juliet van der heijden.<br />
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I hadn't realised that the last time I wrote this blog was when we returned from wonderful Wales.....well, quite a lot has been happening.<br />
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First we did the shearing with the help of friends<br />
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It only takes a couple of hours but it's very hard work<br />
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and they work up an appetite so afterwards they come up to the house for a full English breakfast!<br />
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Then Barney and Big Boy went off to have their hair cuts<br />
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so all the animals are ready for Summer.<br />
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We've been busy in the workshop - last week we did a dressmaking day and were amazed how much we accomplished. We were all working from Merchant & Mills patterns<br />
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and I was very pleased with the Trapeze dress that I managed to make (except for the hem) by the end of the day!<br />
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and Ros also managed to practically finish her more complicated pattern<br />
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but we both agreed it would have been a far more painful process if Sandra hadn't been there!<br />
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Then this week Fay showed us her completed Antique Wedding Sampler<br />
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Such a beautiful quilt and I really didn't recognise it as the same quilt others in the group had made - the colours are so vibrant she's completely made it her own.<br />
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Sheila came down and showed us the Trip Around the World which she started at our workshop<br />
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and the Di Ford she has been working on (all hand-stitched)<br />
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Finally Denise had a word of warning for us. When you have made a beautiful quilt top, celebrating your house in France, and decide to add one final border with perhaps a house on it<br />
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......don't ask your partner to draw up a picture of the house so you can sew it - it may present quite a challenge!<br />
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I love Wales so much - I am always so excited when we drive over that bridge and feel like we are going into a foreign country - and it's only an hour away!!<br />
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The sky was grey at that point, so I was pleased I'd packed lots of warm clothes. We then drove on to our destination, a little cottage in Amroth, a village near Tenby.<br />
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The next day the sun shone - and continued to shine until our last day - so I lived in shorts and a top! Because it was so sunny we didn't really visit any 'indoor' places - so no lovely mills or sightseeing drives - we just walked and relaxed. Jonathan's idea of the perfect holiday is to lounge around reading books all morning, so I sorted out my Happy Holiday Step and sewed until he was ready to head out!<br />
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We walked around the Colby Woodland Gardens that were very close to our cottage and loved all the Rhododendrons <br />
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Absolutely stunning. The flowers everywhere were beautiful actually - and we were very excited to discover wild orchids on another walk.<br />
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One day we decided to visit the Bosherston Lily Ponds and were bowled over by how beautiful they were - the lilies were just coming into bloom<br />
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After walking around the lakes (because they are much bigger than ponds) we decided to walk on around the coastal path.<br />
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Lorne Hill Farm Craft workshopshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06165871417678983922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075115136928429369.post-61487160830286748682019-05-07T10:43:00.000-07:002019-05-07T10:46:57.081-07:00The End is in Sight!Phew - it's been a long time coming but the end of lambing and calving 2019 is well within sight now.<br />
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I'm still bottle feeding my four (very sweet) little lambs<br />
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The weather has been kind to us this year, so all has gone fairly well.<br />
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Unfortunately spring in the valley also means the time when the rooks descend. They are a real nuisance; after feeding the chickens I have to stand there for ages or the rooks will take their feed, they steal the horses feed in the yard, and they can be very cruel to livestock. If there is ever an ailing sheep or lamb in the field, they will swoop down and peck out their eyes which is a very pitiful sight.<br />
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Which leads me to a sad story about Lucy, our ten year old pet lamb. She has two claims to fame: the first, when she was still a lamb but quite grown up and she used to stay out in the chicken field with her friend Mabel. One day there was a rainstorm and I looked out and wondered why all the silly chicken weren't sheltering in their hut. On closer inspection I found out why:<br />
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Then, last year, Lucy had twins and after he'd pulled out the second one Jonathan and George went out (dancing). To my horror I realised she was having a third, and I couldn't get hold of anyone to help, so her second claim to fame is being the only sheep whose lamb I had to pull out. Jeffrey came over after the deed was done (and after he'd finished his supper) to see if I was okay and said he'd better take a picture:<br />
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Anyway, this year Lucy had twins. It was early in the morning and sadly the first one was born dead, but Jonathan pulled out the second one and because it was big and healthy and Lucy was licking it Jonathan left them to bond (which is the right thing to do). I saw a couple of crows out there a bit later so Jonathan went out to check. The crows had pecked the lamb's still wet umbilical cord and left the lamb disembowelled. Of course it died. Lucy bleated none stop for the next two days. It was very sad but at least she's okay.<br />
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Any way, on to happier things. We have had a lovely visit from our grandson and I was inspired to crochet him a Toft zebra<br />
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I will never, ever again crochet with black wool - it was an absolute nightmare! - but apparently Isaac likes him!<br />
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In the workshop Eileen had a length of Sari silk and she suggested to Jackie that she might like to make a doll's outfit out of it. The next week Jackie turned up with this:<br />
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Finally, my sister decided to celebrate the ten years since she had her kidney transplant by collecting all the 10ps she came across over the year and donating them to the Six Counties Kidney Patients Association, the charity that looks after patients covered by the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.<br />
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And I mentioned it in the workshop and was thrilled when so many ladies handed over their cash:<br />
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Lorne Hill Farm Craft workshopshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06165871417678983922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075115136928429369.post-47130695350425382422019-04-04T08:01:00.000-07:002019-04-04T08:01:10.118-07:00Cold, Wet, Windy Weather.....So, clearly, we're lambing! It's got off to a slow start, which isn't a bad thing - especially since invariably the sheep like to lamb right at the top of the hill, so we have to walk all the way up there to bring them down (and in the absence of George, I can't stand at the window with the binoculars and send him up to bring them down).<br />
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That was the first set of twins.<br />
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Once Jonathan has treated them we put them out into the bigger paddock, with the alpacas to protect them. One of the most annoying things they can do on a cold, wet, windy day is tumble under the fencing<br />
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and off they go without a backward glance!<br />
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In between times I have managed to finish my traditional Penny Rug - I'm quite pleased with it.<br />
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But what is really special is that underneath each of the circles is an actual old English penny. Eileen gave them to the workshop because rather have them sitting in a pot, she liked the idea of the mat falling apart in years to come and people finding the pennies. <br />
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They are called Penny Rugs or Mats because traditionally pennies were stitched into them to weigh them down.<br />
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Now that little project is finished I'm working earnestly on my Janie Crow Magic Lanterns blanket,<br />
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Oh my word...I hope I like it in the end!<br />
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Now, if only the rain would stop I could take this little girl out for a walk.....<br />
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Lorne Hill Farm Craft workshopshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06165871417678983922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075115136928429369.post-40076575157005799092019-03-29T03:27:00.000-07:002019-03-29T03:28:18.300-07:00After a Slow Start....This year is just racing away! Where did February and March go?<br />
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Such a lot has been happening - Pitch and Stitch every Tuesday morning is a real hive of activity. The other day there was nine of us working and chatting away and I took pictures of everyone but my computer is misbehaving and I can't transfer the photos - hopeless!<br />
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You'll have to take my word for it that there was knitting, crochet, quilting, rug-making, Bargello seat cover making, tapestry, patchwork paper piecing and cross stitch.<br />
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I have been knitting for my baby grandson with kits from Stitch and Story</div>
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I did the biggest size so he can grow into his Miffy hat and sweater!<br />
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Meanwhile on the farm we are about 2/3 of the way through calving<br />
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and looking out for the arrival of our lambs any day now.<br />
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I am now completely obsessed with shrooming and every walk includes a quick (sometimes not so quick) scout through Rogers Wood up on the hill. I was particularly pleased when someone said they thought I'd staged this photo<br />
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I'm now a convert to Instagram and put lots of pictures up on that - but mostly of mushrooms I'm afraid. It's also the only way I get to see what George is up to in Japan - it's lovely that he is getting to see so much of the world but he's not that good at letting me know what he's up to......<br />
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I'd like to say I spent the day sitting in front of a crackling fire and quilting, or knitting, or crocheting, but I haven't.<br />
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I've spent the day doing two things (if we don't count taking the dogs out for frequent, short walks).<br />
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The main thing I've been doing is eating. I cooked a fried breakfast for the boys because they'd been out in the snow, and I ate it too. Then I made soup and ate that too. With a great chunk of bread. And then when they came in again this afternoon I joined them for tea and crumpets. And now I have pizza in the oven.<br />
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The other thing I've been doing is taking loads of photos and videos and putting them on social media.<br />
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And the view from the kitchen first thing this morning:<br />
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Which was really quite boring because of course everyone in this part of the world was looking out at snow, but it's just so fascinating, and it just kept on coming!<br />
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I did get George to take a photo of my finished Kate Davies designed 'Traigh' which I started at the Ros Harwood workshop we did this Autumn (I was posing in a similar fashion to her on the pattern, but it's turned out to be a somewhat less sophisticated photo!).<br />
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It was so tiny and fragile and reminded me of the very great loss someone I know has suffered recently.<br />
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<br />Lorne Hill Farm Craft workshopshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06165871417678983922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075115136928429369.post-25619524334298441902019-01-16T10:12:00.000-08:002019-01-16T10:12:11.816-08:00They look Okay......After my Hob covers disintegrated in the (first) wash, I decided I may as well make my own replacements:<br />
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I think they look okay.....but I'm making some belated New Year Resolutions to try and stop making the same mistakes I make <em>every time I start a new project.</em><br />
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<li>Never, ever start a project thinking, "if I get a move on with this I should have it done by lunchtime and then I can cook the roast".</li>
<li>Never start by carefully drawing out the circle with a compass and then decide it will be much quicker to draw it freehand.</li>
<li>Never layer the wadding and two pieces of fabric together and then zig zag stitch around the edge in the hope it will hold it together - you'll have to unpick it because it will go very wrong as the fabrics revolt.</li>
<li>Never decide it will be much quicker to just machine quilt the layers rather than tack them in place first; again, you'll have to unpick it because the fabrics revolt.</li>
<li>Never quickly think, "Right, so I want the binding to be 1/2 an inch wide so that's 1/2 an inch front and back plus two 1/4 inch seams so that makes 1 and a half inches" and not remember to double it.</li>
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Four days later they are finally done but the work is pretty shoddy to say the least. Best part was yesterday at Pitch and Stitch when I was huffing and puffing over it and Eileen said I'm too much of a perfectionist. I think I know a few people who would splutter at that.<br />
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I know the sun has been shining but I have been making quite a meal of January, so I felt a bit feeble when I read my cousin's blog all about their lovely walks along the beach and work in the garden. I decided (when it stopped raining) that I would walk around the garden and seek out colour.<br />
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The pansies are getting more established<br />
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and the Hellebore is in flower<br />
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The Winter Jasmine is the best it's ever been (probably because Jonathan forgot to cut it back)<br />
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But best of all has to be something I didn't even know existed until Pippa (well, who else?) pointed out the tiny little pin prick flowers on the hazel.<br />
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And I'm hanging on to it - I've never been one of those people who take their decorations down before Twelfth Night, (a friend of mine used to take hers down on Boxing Day, and this year she said she wasn't going to put any up) so I'll be taking mine down on Saturday. I went to Marlborough yesterday and was pleased to see the Christmas lights still up, and on, both there and in Hungerford.<br />
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As ever, this Christmas has included lots of home made gifts....<br />
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.....my quilting friends and I exchanged home-made gifts and I was thrilled to receive the collection below:<br />
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My gifts to them were the cause of some considerable pain.....back in October I had the idea of making little scissor purses for them, and then four days before we were due to exchange I decided I'd better get on and make them. I stalled for two days with the prototype which went horribly wrong and was thrown aside. Then I sent to work again and literally a couple of hours before I had to hand them over, managed to finish them.<br />
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They weren't too bad in the end.<br />
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Then some of the ladies at pitch and Stitch found the prototype and insisted it couldn't be thrown away, so I changed it a bit and turned it into a tissue holder for my Auntie Pauline.<br />
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And Isaac enjoyed his home made gift from me<br />
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made from the pattern I bought from Tactile Treasures and the Ally Pally.<br />
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Anyway, we have had a lovely Christmas with our little grandson coming over so everyone finally got to meet him, and I got to spend lots of money on essential things like cots, highchairs, activity centres and various musical toys. I was so pleased to be able to put in Victoria's room this musical box which my cousin Jen, and her husband Steve, made years ago. That's it, in the picture at the top of this post and it still works as good as new. <br />
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We've sung lots of carols, eaten lots of food, visited friends and family and had visitors here. I just finished my Christmas puzzle yesterday<br />
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which is a bit special because my sister, who leant it to me, knows the artist who painted the original picture - Mary Tozer.<br />
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which I can now attempt to identify with my lovely book I was given for Christmas!<br />
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Back at the end of the summer people started posting photos of interesting fungi, and when I lamented that there was no fungus in our woods Pippa insisted there would be, I just had to look properly.<br />
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Well, I have been walking these woods and fields for nearly a quarter of a century....and I must have been walking around with my eyes shut!! They are everywhere! And I don't like to just look at them, I like to take photos....and if I've forgotten to take my phone, I try not to look because I couldn't bare to see some fascinating specimens and not be able to photograph them!<br />
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Little lonely ones<br />
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Rather disgusting ones<br />
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How is it that I've never seen them before.....and what else is up in those woods that I never see......?<br />
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Betty brought in her completed Yoko Saito Town quilt, which she started here on the farm, to show us<br />
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Very much a Summer town, we decided. Denise is busy quilting hers, and didn't want a photo of it before it's finished, but I did snap a few details<br />
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And Ros brought in her linen quilt to show us<br />
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Those pebbly colours will look perfect in the beach house.<br />
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Then the other weekend I visited a neighbour. Last Christmas she told me she was planning on upholstering a chair in needlepoint, and asked me for some pointers. Well, she is now well on her way.<br />
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Her canvas was meticulously planned<br />
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covered in really pretty pansies, one of her favourite flowers<br />
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I can't wait to see it finished but this is an opus so I'm afraid I'm going to have to!<br />
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Finally, my sister and I went to a lantern making workshop in Hungerford on Saturday<br />
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It was a lot of fun, but I hadn't realised we would be making them to parade at the Victorian Extravaganza! Anyway, I finished mine off in the workshop this morning (all kinds of things go on at Pitch and Stitch) - hope it works!<br />
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Lorne Hill Farm Craft workshopshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06165871417678983922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075115136928429369.post-58916855554261938692018-11-21T09:52:00.000-08:002018-11-21T09:52:48.939-08:00All Too MuchDon't worry - I'm not about to throw in the towel but there has been so much going on....Most of it good.<br />
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Best of all, of course, was the flying visit from the next generation and welcoming our little grandson to Lorne Hill Farm<br />
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Here he is ready for bed and in the outfit Lynn gave him. A very sweet little baby and I could fill this post with pictures of him - but, don't worry, I won't.<br />
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As everyone knows, the weekend before last was Remembrance Day and our little village put on a show to be proud of. In the church there was an amazing exhibition of memorabilia from the First World War. Villagers were asked to display anything they had from the war, and there was so much to see. There were a number of diaries written by grandparents who were in the war and made fascinating reading.<br />
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Local Cabinetmaker John Hing had made wooden life size silhouettes of soldiers, one to represent every man from the village who had died in the war, and they were displayed in the churchyard. It was really very moving.<br />
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There were 15 in all, and although we stand at the memorial every year, seeing this life size representation of those poor men really made you think.<br />
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So that was a busy weekend.<br />
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And things have been very busy in the workshop too - yesterday I walked around and took pictures of everything people were working on in the Tuesday morning drop in.<br />
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Ros, of course, was knitting (when she wasn't helping Louise and me with ours!)<br />
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Sally was doing some lovely applique with tweed fabric (It's an owl picture)<br />
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So that means in one little workshop there was knitting, crocheting, sewing, applique, old English piecing, quilting and I was working on my tapestry cushion. Crafting is clearly very much alive and well in East Garston!</div>
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I tried to do my knitting but can't concentrate with so much going on, so didn't. But the scarf I started at Ros's workshop really is coming along very nicely!</div>
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Glenys started coming after Mother's Day this year when her daughters gave her four mornings at Lorne Hill Farm Pitch and Stitch as a gift. She wasn't sure what to work on so bought a tapestry cushion to make. She was just finishing that, and wondering aloud what to do next, when Eileen came through the door saying, "my friend is moving and has given me this tapestry kit if anyone wants it", quick as a flash Glenys said, "I'll have that".</div>
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I have now combined my daily walks with the dogs with fungus hunting - now that I am actually slowing down and looking properly, I see mushrooms and toad stools everywhere! We had our first snow this morning and Pippa said once the snow comes the fungi will disappear, but I managed to spot some today - this was a whole pathway of them</div>
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It's actually really a relief to get out of the house because Jonathan has gone bonkers and keeps buying new furniture......he seems to be replacing every dresser and cupboard in the house, which means constantly emptying things and tables being piled high with 25 years worth of STUFF. Clearing out a cupboard the other day I got quite ruthless with throwing stuff away. That night I remembered a little Jaguar key tag and mentioned it to Jonathan. He said that must have been from his father's Jaguar and started reminiscing about how they all loved that car. There was only one thing for it - the next day we went through all the rubbish bags with a fine tooth comb to find that little badge but of course we couldn't. Then I had a thought and pulled out the drawer in the new dresser - there it was.....so I wasn't so ruthless after all.<br />
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Well, the sock workshop with Ros the other week went really well - most of us there were fairly experienced knitters, but not necessarily using more than two needles, so it was quite a learning curve. (I did a similar workshop over the summer, in another place, but I have to say we are really lucky having Ros to show us what to do. The lady I went to had been knitting for years, and certainly knew her stuff, but at the end of the day I was none the wiser about how to knit with four needles. It really isn't helpful when teachers undo your knitting when you go for lunch, and then re-do it for you). <br />
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Ros was wearing the beautiful scarf we shall be learning to knit this Wednesday - she assured us it is quite easy, because the pattern part is only 30 stitches or so across. We shall see..... There are still a couple of place if anyone wants to join us.<br />
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Anyway, back to socks, and the following Pitch and Stitch when we all turned up with half of a pair of socks and lots of questions for Ros before we could carry on to make a pair.<br />
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Not my area of expertise, but I did replace some buttons for my mother<br />
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Sandra brought in the place mats she will be showing us how to make on the 5th December<br />
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Lorne Hill Farm Craft workshopshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06165871417678983922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075115136928429369.post-74560866980477258952018-10-12T10:24:00.001-07:002018-10-12T10:24:52.087-07:00What a MalarkeyI'm really not sure this not going out to work malarkey is right for me.....I seem to be spending an awful lot of time doing not very much at all.<br />
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Yesterday I spent most of the morning considering the various things I really have to get on with, such as cleaning up the greenhouse, sorting out the garden, going through my clothes, doing a bit of mending, perhaps even finish decorating the bedroom or start decorating the office, and clean out the chickens.<br />
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So I went out to admire my lovely new Buff Orpingtons,<br />
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Today I went through the same list of jobs, and then found myself making blackberry jam.<br />
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Earlier in the week though, when I was a bit more motivated, I went to 'Martin & the Magpie' - my favourite florist in Hungerford.<br />
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I love this shop because as well as beautiful flowers, they have quirky plants and little bits of 'this and that' to look at. Well, I went in to buy flowers for a friend, but, just like at Christmas, something caught my eye which would make a lovely gift for me:<br />
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An indoor plant called String of Hearts. I don't really like indoor plants that much, but I thought these trailing hearts looked so pretty - and, of course, they were hanging in macramé potholders which I happen to have a few of.......so, it's found it's way out into the workshop!<br />
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The only thing I have been good at is taking the dogs out for at least 3 miles everyday. The weather over the last week has been extraordinary - hot enough for shorts some days, then into waterproofs, then into sweaters - and me and the dogs have seen a few things that made us look twice:<br />
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A fairy ring<br />
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The men out drilling and rolling<br />
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And then yesterday evening a beautiful double rainbow<br />
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Off to the Ally Pally tomorrow, so I can get lots of ideas for more things to not do......<br />
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