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Yorkshire dweller, butler to a tiny dachshund, practioner of the dark art of crochet, botanical natural dyer, wonderlark & goblin child, steps around snails!🐌

Yorkshire
Joined June 2021
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🌱 Quite a few years ago purchased a quince plant for £1 from the 'rescue me' section of the garden centre, & has been potted up by the tiny terrace front door ever since - excitingly, it has yielded a first ever solitary little fruit! Inordinately proud of the plant...
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🧢 Comfort watching BBC Merlin instilled a deep desperate need for a red kerchief scarf, so knitted one up with a perfectly rowan red ball of alpaca found in the yarn stash - please to peep at the notebook for a pattern recipe should you also wish to abscond to a time of magic...
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🧡Over the years a great many pretty fabric scraps have gathered quietly, waiting for their shining moment to be used, & so it seems a good time to settle into the coming winter with piles of patchwork cut triangles for to slowly stitch into colsie projects of warmth...
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🐌 Snippets of a snail slow life - the garden robin singing loudly for his supper; a finished rowan red knitted Merlin style scarf; a first fruit ever from a quince plant potted up by the tiny terrace door; patchwork projects beginning with a plethora of scrap fabric triangles...
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🐾 In humble offering to the delight that is #smallbeautieshour is His Tiny Highness sat snoozing & snacking in style! The weekend nights were quite noisy with fireworks so this little sausage is catching up on his beauty sleep in his blanket besnugged den...
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🌱 Quite a few years ago purchased a quince plant for £1 from the 'rescue me' section of the garden centre, & has been potted up by the tiny terrace front door ever since - excitingly, it has yielded a first ever solitary little fruit! Inordinately proud of the plant...
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🧢 Comfort watching BBC Merlin instilled a deep desperate need for a red kerchief scarf, so knitted one up with a perfectly rowan red ball of alpaca found in the yarn stash - please to peep at the notebook for a pattern recipe should you also wish to abscond to a time of magic...
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🧡Over the years a great many pretty fabric scraps have gathered quietly, waiting for their shining moment to be used, & so it seems a good time to settle into the coming winter with piles of patchwork cut triangles for to slowly stitch into colsie projects of warmth...
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🐌 Snippets of a snail slow life - the garden robin singing loudly for his supper; a finished rowan red knitted Merlin style scarf; a first fruit ever from a quince plant potted up by the tiny terrace door; patchwork projects beginning with a plethora of scrap fabric triangles...
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✨ All Saints Day, second of the Allhallowtide, & dusk brings a local protective folk custom of burning a candle in a ring of rowan berries tied with red thread on the gatepost - anything that should have gone to ground with the last harvest now cannot cross to cause mischief...
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🐌 Hurrah for Sunday Snailday once again & whilst drinking tea on the garden steps had the delight of watching a beshelled beastie journey along - so the wish for all good folk is to take pootling adventures, to venture forth under gold sunlight & be amongst the green leaves...
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✨ Oh, think this might just fit the bill for the 'home comforts' theme for todays #FolkloreSunday
✨ All Saints Day, second of the Allhallowtide, & dusk brings a local protective folk custom of burning a candle in a ring of rowan berries tied with red thread on the gatepost - anything that should have gone to ground with the last harvest now cannot cross to cause mischief...
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✨ All Saints Day, second of the Allhallowtide, & dusk brings a local protective folk custom of burning a candle in a ring of rowan berries tied with red thread on the gatepost - anything that should have gone to ground with the last harvest now cannot cross to cause mischief...
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🐌 Hurrah for Sunday Snailday once again & whilst drinking tea on the garden steps had the delight of watching a beshelled beastie journey along - so the wish for all good folk is to take pootling adventures, to venture forth under gold sunlight & be amongst the green leaves...
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✨ All Hallows Eve, known as last harvest in these parts, when we bake soul cakes for to give those a-knocking our doors - marked with a cross to show the turning year, & the little no cross cake is the lumpen for whom the year no longer turns & is to be sacrificed to the land...
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🌱 A Hallowtide tradition in this happy little patch of the world is to plant seeds as a promise of light filled days to come as 'hope grows green' - so horse chestnut seeds saved from the garden squirrel have been put to earth for to grow strong roots & unfurl green leaves...
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✨ A little folkling crafting for to make protective rowan berry charms meant to keep luck to your feet & ward off any ill intent - trying to remember to write down all the funny local customs that have been handed down so that a goldfish memory doesn't end a tiny tradition...
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🐌 Snippets of a snail slow life - gently enjoying a traditional Hallowtide making rowan berry protective charms, baking soul cakes, drawing rune stones, & planting seeds for to grow good & green...
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✨ All Hallows Eve, known as last harvest in these parts, when we bake soul cakes for to give those a-knocking our doors - marked with a cross to show the turning year, & the little no cross cake is the lumpen for whom the year no longer turns & is to be sacrificed to the land...
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🌱 A Hallowtide tradition in this happy little patch of the world is to plant seeds as a promise of light filled days to come as 'hope grows green' - so horse chestnut seeds saved from the garden squirrel have been put to earth for to grow strong roots & unfurl green leaves...
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