Author: Sarah Oakley
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Alpaca Fleece
Alpaca Fleece – Dave the Alpaca Fleece Meet Dave the Alpaca Fleece. Given to me by a friend who teaches textiles. I have been waiting for some nice weather so I could wash and dry him ready to comb, then spin him. First I prepared some gorilla tubs with warm water all about the same…
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Customised T-Shirts
DTF (Direct to Film) – Customised T-Shirts DTF T-Shirts Solihull. In 2022 we took delivery of our heat press. We also use it to bond DTF (Direct to Film) transfers. We produce all the necessary artwork using Adobe Photoshop and/or Adobe Illustrator and get the artwork printed onto large gang-sheets. The images are then cut…
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Heat Press – Maker Centre
Heat Press – December 2022 Christmas arrived a couple of days early this year at Cranford Farm. With the delivery of our new 610x530mm heat press.. An Epsom SureColor dye sublimation printer arrived with it. I ordered it on 21st December and it arrived on 22nd at 11am. Initially I was going to use it…
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The Textiles Room Photo Gallery
Maker Centre – Textiles Room – March 2021 update: We continue to make progress collecting items for sewing, spinning, weaving, knitting and processing wool for use in our maker centre when we get it properly up and running. We currently have a textiles room set up and have been working on how we might best…
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Creating the Textiles Room
Work is progressing nicely on the Textiles Room – we have started to try to zone the different textile areas. We have a sewing and overlocking zone, a knitting zone, a weaving zone and a spinning and fleece preparation zone. We are working hard to build up our library of textile books for our reference…
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15 needle single head embroidery machine
In February we took delivery of our long awaited embroidery machine. We are in the process of setting up some maker sessions and training courses which will cover all aspects of machine embroidery. Embroidery machines can be used for many things including appliqué, quilting, lace making and embroidered apparel. Download QR
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MDF Silhouettes
Simon has been working on some MDF Silhouettes to decorate the textiles room. Designed using Lightburn and then cut out using the C02 laser. I then took the Silhouettes and used black acrylic paint and an airbrush to spray them before fixing them to the wall. Download QR
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Cranford Farm – Grow Your Own Garden Series
2017 Garden walls completed, driveway tarmacked and our gates fitted. This left us to focus on planting up our front garden and courtyard with a limited budget. We decided to try to grow as much of our garden as possible. So we could focus the budget on greenhouses, aeroponics, polytunnels, seeds, bulbs, seed tents and…
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Aeroponics Pyracantha – Cranford Farm – Aeroponics Series
Aeroponics Pyracantha Progress – 2020 Two and a half years after the cuttings were taken and propagated. We used Aeroponics and the Pyracantha bushes continue spreading well in our front border. You can see move about this as part of our Aeroponics series Pyracantha 2017. They provide good ground coverage and growing tall against the…
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Cranford Farm – Cut Flowers – Overview
For about three years I have been working on what I can grow with cut flowers in mind. Each winter I browse through the seed catalogues looking for flowers that might lend themselves to cutting. The grow tent was purchased last year in part to extend the cut flower growing season. I started it off…