Well after all that cake, here’s a nice healthy lunch. Recipe here

I’d forgotten to post this, recently we went to a wedding where the bride requested that friends made cakes for the reception. Here is the table of cakes before they were eaten.

Mine is the one in the bottom right corner, recipe here. It was also the first to be finished by the guests!
Congratulations to Lucy and Jez.

This week I’ve been dyeing wool yellow, with wind-fallen lichen from the woods & orange with onion skins.
In autumn I collect lichen which has blown from the trees in our woods. It dyes without a mordant to a beautiful lemony yellow. I used to make Dad yellow socks with Blue-faced Leicester wool from the sheep from his land – yellow was his favourite colour.
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I finally got round to writing this recipe down so it could be used for the vegetarian option at the Tatie Pot/Spin In at Woolfest. Afterwards I got a few requests for the recipe, so here it is!

The stash!

It does look rather obscenely huge, but it did all fit into two bags!
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