Our Green Designs

I measured all my larger pieces of furniture and created cardboard scale models to place in the model house. This helped me visualise the layout and get a good sense of the space.

A basic card model to help imagine what the exterior of the house might look like, using some of my mum's patchwork fabric to represent a living roof.

Robert had a bag of cleaned and carded wool from his flock of sheep. I used it to make a duvet, which turned out to be very warm indeed. This photo shows it just before I sewed through the fabric in a few places (similar to how a futon is made) to hold it together.

I made a quilt for the caravan, which would later be used in the house. I chose fabric from my (now adult) children's duvet covers, Robert's old shirts (some still with pockets), and my mum's patchwork fabrics, which included patterns of clouds, dry stone walls and autumn leaves.

With some of the offcuts from the shirts I used for the quilt, I made Robert a clamshell patchwork waistcoat.

There was still a lot of leftover fabric from the quilt and waistcoat, so I decided to have a go at making a rag rug. This is the top side.

This is the reverse side.

A bit of practice making a tension tray using random twigs collected from the woodland.

This basket was made from materials collected from my old garden and from the woodland when I first arrived, its structure is made from farmed buff willow.