December 2015 (4)

Thursday, December 31 2015

Happy New Year!

I'm not one for long posts about the year past and the year ahead at Hogmanay.  If I'm honest looking back over the year gone tends to make me maudlin, and I've always, by nature, been one that tends to look forwards rather than backwards.So instead, let me simply wish you a happy new year, show you  […]

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Sunday, December 20 2015

The Off Grid Life

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I apologise in advance for the lack of pretty photographs in this blog entry, but there has been some interest in what it is like for us living off grid, so I decided to put down a few thoughts, and as photographs showing our system are few and far between, and unless you have a passion for  […]

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Sunday, December 13 2015

Introducing .........

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Canisp - a visiting yarn in the Ripples Crafts fold.[caption id="attachment_8544" align="aligncenter" width="772"] Fresh Grass[/caption]Canisp is a 4ply yarn, and the fibre content is 70% Merino, 20% Silk and 10% Cashmere and comes in a 100g hank.  Each hank contains  […]

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Sunday, December 6 2015

The "Notes" in Yarn Notes from Assynt

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After my previous post about the yarn club for next year - Yarn Notes from Assynt 2016 - I thought I would give you a flavour of the kind of notes that you would receive with your package each month.  It was hard to select one month to show you,  but after looking through Stevan's notes for the year  […]

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