Natalie Hogg

Pesto and tomato sauce

Pesto
Equalish parts herb of choice (Basil), nuts of choice (cashews) and Parmesan, glug of olive oil. Blend into a paste.

Tomato sauce
Tin of chopped tomatoes, Italian herbs of choice (Basil), table spoon sugar. Boil together for 5 minutes.

Textiles
Sand - sew a patch
      - knit a dish cloth
Straw - sew a bib front apron
      - patch a sofa
      - invisibly mending an item of clothing
      - conceal a stain
     - sew a zokin
    - sew a feminine pad

Greywater
Sand - reuse dishwater

Nest
Sand - do washing up by hand
       - clean a kitchen
      - manually clean an oven
Straw - wipe down windows
         - clean interior of a fridge

Foraging
Sand - make a cup of tea
Sand - forage 2lbs of fresh fruit (elderberries)

Food prep
Sand - cook grain on a cooker (rice)

Some of my berries are frozen as I picked them over two weeks from the same tree and even managed to leave some for the birds. Now to decide what to do with them all.

Made a new bed over the holidays, with my partner. We used a string to do the measurements, and reused the slats from the old bed

The Internet tells me that a cup is a bit under 250ml so this approx 600ml of rice should be good right?

Textiles
Sand - sew a patch
       - knit a dish cloth
Straw - sew a bib front apron
       - patch a sofa
       - invisibly mending an item of clothing
       - conceal a stain
      - sew a zokin
     - sew a feminine pad

Greywater
Sand - reuse dishwater

Nest
Sand - do washing up by hand
        - clean a kitchen
       - manually clean an oven
Straw - wipe down windows
          - clean interior of a fridge

Foraging
Sand - make a cup of tea

One cleaned kitchen using dish soap (pictured) vinegar water and rags

I made two different padding styles because I'm not sure what will work for me yet. I used cotton and linen thread, linen stash fabric. In one pad, torn apart organic cotton pads as padding and in the other four layers of linen.

Pulled everything out of the fridge,
Compostables went out to the lazy compost pile,
Recyclables were rinsed out and put to the recycling bin
Non recyclables went in the bin
Took out all of the shelves and drawers and washed them up in the sink
Turned of the fridge so the back would defrost
Toweled out liquid from the bottom of the fridge
Washed fridge with soap and warm water and dried it back off
Reassembled it, put all the food that was still good back (hooray for pickles) and turned the fridge back on

For this project I used a cotton tea towel that was thining rapidly, some cotton embroidery floss and some linen thread (to stitch down the edges) both from my thread stash. I tried a couple of styles of decorative running stitches in different zones of the cloth