With the leftover yarn after finishing my belt I was able to weave a little coaster too. It’s a bit rustic but softer than it looks. Eventually I’d like to be able to grow enough flax to make a item of clothing, wouldn’t that be amazing. Hopefully I will be better at spinning a more…

I grew my own fabric! I can’t quite believe I’ve made a belt out off something I grew in my own garden. Eight months of sowing, growing, harvesting, retting, processing, spinning, and weaving and this is the result. I really wanted to turn my first linen yardage into a useful item, so I decided upon…

A new winter hat for my littlest one. She gets a lot of hand-me-downs, being the youngest, so I like to create new things just for her every now and then. This was a simple crochet design using my own chunky handspun wool. I created a rainbow yarn using just three colours of fibre, blending…

To process my flax at home, I used the mini kit I purchased from Brigitte at Let’s Grow Flax consisting of a metal comb and square wooden dowel. The first step is breaking. I took small bundles of flax and bent them around the dowel at regular intervals to break the stem. This I repeated…