I'm not doing a very good job at keeping up with this blog. This is because I'm spending a lot of time making dolls clothes and talking about it here. That doesn't mean that I'm not doing my other usual things. The other day I decided to try Tunisian crochet ....
I love how this looks and feels, it is much softer than usual crochet and is more dense, no gaps at all, more like a knitted fabric. When I bought the hook the lady at the shop said that they had workshops on this technique so will be going if I can.
The polytunnel has been a lot of fun, currently I'm clearing and resowing in there. Next year I will make sure there is a screen over the doors to keep butterflies (or should that be butterflys?) out, but let in bees and hoverflies. We have had quite a few caterpillars but not nearly as many as outdoor crops get. There are a couple of things I wouldn't grow in there again, one is fennel, it didn't really develop the 'bulb' that I expected and got rather tall and woody. Also, because of the failure with the dwarf French beans, I put in some climbing French beans and they've got much too big. But overall I love the polytunnel.
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