Moss nest Brooch
I never tire of making these brooches. Fortunate since they are prooving popular and I’m having to make a few up each week. There are no two quite the same as a result of the process: a bit like hand drawing spirals, but with a sewing machine.
Rasberry Nest brooch
Filed under: latest news | Tags: Chickens, cushion, hebridean storm, Hen cushion, Hens, Loose cover, sofa cover, Tertan, Tweed, tweed cushion
Mary's sofa and clucky cushions
I told you I was making a loose cover for Mary’s sofa didn’t I? Well, it’s done now.
Made from a scrumptuous upholstery tartan and tweed. I spent three, or was it two days camping out at Mary’s with Pete, little Lewis the whirlwind and the sewing machine for company. Pin, pin pin, pipe pipe pipe, sew, sew, sew and sew and sew…and finaly the sofa emerges with a brand new coat on. This particular coat was a bit overwhelmed with tartan so some custom cushions were made to sit a top it and break up the grid. Mary has a hen fetish of sorts so obviously the cushions needed to cater for that! I designed three cushions: two with hens and one grass. They’ve turned out well and I think I’m going to see how they go on etsy.com
Cluck and pecker
Cluck and Pecker detail
Cluck and food
I’ve also made curtains which I’ll hang next week hopefully. I have to put up a pelmet…tried to venture to Oban to buy the bits this morning but a humdinger of a hebridean storm had whipped up and the boat wouldn’t run. Hey ho! We were stranded and island bound. I quite like it when that happens.
Filed under: life on lismore | Tags: berry picking, Sloe berries, Sloe gin, sloe loving
Picking sloes
We’ve just been picking enormous sloe berries on the croft. There’s a patch (a secret patch!) where the blackthorn thickets are covered. Come christmas we’ll be Sloe loving and befuddled in Gin. BRING IT ON!!
| Sloe Gin Recipe | ||
| Pick your sloes from blackthorn hedges in October or November when they are most ripe – probably after the first frosts. | ||
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| Cut or prick the sloes and drop into the half-empty bottle so that they displace the remaining gin to near the top. | ||
| Add one wine goblet of sugar (approx 150g). | ||
All you have to do now is turn or agitate the bottle daily for a week, then weekly for a month or two … by which time it will be ready to drink (but it is really best kept until the next winter).
 Check out these berries  And back with a bag full Yum, Yum, Yum Does anyone know any other good sloe recipes? |
