kellymariemcewan
Textile artist / Permaculture Food Forester / Bespoke crochet / Repurposed materials / Wearable Art
Tag: DIY
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Pickled Alexanders, leek bulbs and flower buds
How to pickle Alexanders, three cornered leek bulbs and buds. Includes hot apple cider vinegar recipe.
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Gorse cordial in the Cornish countryside
Foraging in Cornwall for Fat Hen cookery school. How to pick gorse flowers painlessly and a gorse flower cordial recipe.
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Rugging in Portugal
Making rag rugs on the road again Another day, another rag rug, or so the saying goes! Just another quick, small project on the road to replace an older green-and-yellow rug that has seen better days. The rug needs to fit in an odd section of the van…a T-shaped section of the floor leading from
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Digging, sifting, pruning in Portugal
Further helpxing in Pombal, Portugal. Digging pools and making friends.
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Finishing off crocheted bathmat
Adding the finishing touches to a crocheted rug! Made from reused tshirts while travelling in Spain.
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Fantastic adventures in beautiful Basque Country, Spain
Recent adventures and fun times assembling yurts and being tourists in Basque Country.
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Beginner’s Land Art; we built a pathway
Collaborative stair building from recycled roof tiles, wall cement and slate flooring. In beautiful Olabe, Basque Country.
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Assembling a yurt, finishing touches
Our main building project at Olabe is now complete! Finishing up the yurt and working out the kinks in our yurt assembly process took about a week in total. You can read about the first few days of the project in my previous post. After the frame was up, there were four layers of weatherproofing/aesthetic coverings
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Yurt assembly in Basque Country; tips when building for your first yurt
My partner and I have been busy assembling a yurt in the Basque Country. We picked up a few tips and ideas you might want to consider if you are starting out on your first yurt building project. It has been a challenging week to get the project completed. The yurt arrived in many pieces
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Day of the Dead in a van in the UK
Travelling has been bittersweet. You have to be in certain places to experience certain things; new people, culture, architecture. Lifelong friends and deep kin connections in one hemisphere, and yourself, located in the other. I have found it can be easy to feel isolated, even in a full house or the crowded streets of a
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