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Experimenting With Natural Dyes
I love how this time of year just keeps throwing up seasonal treasures week after week. Often these treasures are fleeting like the bluebells and others last a little longer like the cow parsley that is flooding the verges at the moment. Not long ago the fields, lawns, verges and country lanes were awash with yellow dandelions. I just love this wildflower although my husband can't stand them as they pop up in the lawn faster than he can cut it. There's a myriad of things that you can do with dandelions, I've made dandelion jam and bread before. ...
Flinging Open the Doors!
Well hello and welcome to Under An English Sky's new website home. Grab your needles and a cuppa and lets have a chat! Some of you will know that I have blogged for the past 11 years on our homeschooling, life in the UK and my creative endeavours on my simple blogspot blog of the same name. I recently shared that I was taking the leap in taking my hobby business of dyeing yarn - which I started as a creative outlet when we were in the thick of homeschooling 6 years ago, and turning it into a real business....