Shepherd's Hut

One of our many projects over the winter has been to make a shepherd's hut.  Glyn bought some lovely old wheels from a vintage tractor sale.. It has been quite a long time in the planning stage but this winter he started.

Glyn loves working in wood, especially oak, he had to make a turntable out of steel, making a forge to bend the steel to the correct size, a major job on it's own, he used an old hoover motor to get the heat for the forge.

It's really exciting seeing it coming together, I only get to do the boring stuff like the painting, I just can't wait to put my stamp on it.  I am making a patchwork quilt for the bed, my very little contribution.  Am having a wonderful time collecting old china for the shelf which will run around the top of the hut, also any enamel items I can lay my hands on.

As you can see it's patchwork, what else!!

Tom giving a helping hand!!!

The other thing that I have been busy with last week was to do a weeks upholstry workshop with Tom Clough who has a shop in Knighton.  It has been quite a challenge but thoroughly enjoyable.

Tom told me that my chair was a very challenging project to take on as a first attempt, well I never did take the easy route.  I have quite a long way to go to finish it but hopefully will get to more of Tom's classes in the near future as I totally LOVE my chair, patchwork what more could a girl ask for.