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jollytoadstool.bsky.social
Yorkshire dweller, butler to a tiny dachshund, practioner of the dark art of crochet, botanical natural dyer, wonderlark & goblin child, steps around snails!🐌🍄
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🐾 Blanket be-snugged today as His Tiny Highness is not on finest form - the lovely vets are quite confident it is a twenty four hour yuck that will pass by with plenty of fluids & fussing, so settled down to weather an unwell little sausage...

submitted 4 hours ago • 5 comments

🧶 Colourful retro knitting needles have brightened all the travel stitching of the past week - this is a wool stash tidy up for to make cosy gardener's kerchief scarves to be given as spring gifts for green fingered friends, of course bedecked with matching trinketry brooches...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

🌳 A neighbour was harshly pruning an overgrown hazel, so grabbed a gathering bowl for to forage & collect the catkins - or lambs tails as folk called in this patch of the world - with the plan of lightly oven toasting, then coarse grinding, & using as a nutty sprinkle topping...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

🧶 Colourful retro knitting needles have brightened all the travel stitching of the past week - this is a wool stash tidy up for to make cosy gardener's kerchief scarves to be given as spring gifts for green fingered friends, of course bedecked with matching trinketry brooches...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

🌳 A neighbour was harshly pruning an overgrown hazel, so grabbed a gathering bowl for to forage & collect the catkins - or lambs tails as folk called in this patch of the world - with the plan of lightly oven toasting, then coarse grinding, & using as a nutty sprinkle topping...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

🧶 From my notebook, the recipe pattern for little crochet birdies should any folk so fancy it! 🐦

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

🧶 Spring decorations fill the local shops yet most are nothing but poor quality plastic, so home making bright seasonal cheer with crochet chicks stitched from buddleja bloom botanically dyed wool & stuffed with dried garden grown lavender - just a few more for a little flock...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

🐿 Walking through the garden gate to most angrily indignant hedge chattering from the birds - it seems they would like to submit a complaint about a certain chunky squirrel gorging on all of their seeds! (🐦tiny note that the feeder & table do get scrubbed clean every weekend!)

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

🧶 From my notebook, the recipe pattern for little crochet birdies should any folk so fancy it! 🐦

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

🧶 Spring decorations fill the local shops yet most are nothing but poor quality plastic, so home making bright seasonal cheer with crochet chicks stitched from buddleja bloom botanically dyed wool & stuffed with dried garden grown lavender - just a few more for a little flock...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

🐿 Walking through the garden gate to most angrily indignant hedge chattering from the birds - it seems they would like to submit a complaint about a certain chunky squirrel gorging on all of their seeds! (🐦tiny note that the feeder & table do get scrubbed clean every weekend!)

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

🌿 The favourite charity shop shamelessly tempted me into purchasing a little chunky dimpled glass drinking stein, sporting a rather lovely flower design on the thumb latch, so of course it absolutely had to come home to the tiny terrace & be filled with spring flowers...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

🐾 Escorted His Tiny Highness to an indoor dog play area & it was still decorated for valentines, so much frolicking with shiny hearts & chasing pink balls, & the obligatory over excited in the ball pit barking spree - now have a tuckered out contentedly snoring little sausage...

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments