Supply List for Chapter 7: Auld Mary
Art: Hand Sewing, or Spinning with a Drop Spindle
Cook: Bilberry or Blueberry Muffins
Inspired Book List:
More Blueberries! by Susan Musgrave
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
Knit Together by Angela Dominguez
Respect the Spindle: Spin Infinite Yarns with One Amazing Tool by Abby Franquemont
Spinning in the Old Way: How (and Why) To Make Your Own Yarn With A High-Whorl Handspindle by Priscilla A. Gibson-Roberts
Start Spinning: Everything You Need to Know to Make Great Yarn by Maggie Casey
The Intentional Spinner: A Wholistic Approach to Making Yarn by Judith Mackenzie
Art Supplies:
Items to make a drop spindle, or a wooden drop spindle, and wool roving. Scan QR Code for tutorial videos and learn the history of spinning wheels, drop spindles, and knitting.
Kitchen Supplies:
flour, granulated sugar, fine sea salt, baking powder, veg oil
egg, milk, vanilla extract, bilberries or blueberries
Educational Videos for Chapter 7:
How to Spin Wool with a Drop Spindle:
Learn how to spin with other Gaellic Spinning Methods:
How to Set up a Spinning Wheel, from the Weavers Cottage in Kilbarchan:
How to Spin on a Spinning Wheel:
Scottish Weaving Town Spotlight: Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, Scotland
The Weaver’s Cottage was built in 1723, and over the years it was home to between three and four families in separate dwellings around a central close. The residents of the cottage would work together using the workshop in the basement. Today, the loom shop at the cottage houses the last working handloom in the village and one of the few remaining in Scotland. It’s a source of knowledge of past generations from which we’re still learning today. Click here to see the Weavers Cottage on a google map!
What can we learn from the Past? Read this helpful article from the Weavers Cottage, and what we can learn from the past.
https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/working-from-home-then-and-now
History of Knitting:
Cook: Bilberry Muffins
Recipe included in chapter 7. In this chapter, Martha visits Auld Mary, to learn how to spin wool. Auld Mary knew she was coming, and picked bilberries for her to eat, as well as some potatoes, which she used the heather plants as a sieve. (I loved that!) The bilberries were something Auld Mary had Mary eat, before she walked back home.
Why do you think she had her do that?
Bilberries are very healthy and are good for the body! Auld Mary knew that.