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Home comforts

Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)

It was the school half term break here last week and we had a fun time keeping Toby active and busy: lots of wood walks, tandem trike rides, swimming and rides on the mini steam train that he loves. Alongside our outdoor adventures there was also a little time for some indoor comforts: a couple of lazy lie-ins with knitting and tea in bed, quiet evenings by the fire and some baking of raspberry and white chocolate muffins – just the thing to come home to when you’ve had an afternoon in the breezy autumn woods 🙂

The shawl above is being knitted from Elizabeth Doherty’s ‘Rose Gold’ pattern in sublimely soft ‘Nomad’ Yak DK yarn from The Wool Barn I’m hoping to finish off the lovely and unusual side-joined border this week and then it will need blocking (my least favourite part of handknitting) but with any luck I’ll have it snuggled around my neck for our next wood walk, as woolly armour against those cool and intrusive autumn breezes.

I’m also busy with pattern writing, but more of that another time – for now I’ll leave you with some of the pictures I’ve taken over the last 2 months of the fox that has been regularly visiting our garden since early spring, we’ve nicknamed her Kit (from kitsune) …

14 thoughts on “Home comforts”

  2. Awe Julie, I’m quite envious of your beautiful fox, I wish I had a gorgeous visitor like that … great name!!!
    So glad you had a lovely half term ….your shawl is amazing and those muffins look delicious. 🙂
    V x

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  5. Goodness the fox is gorgeous. The muffins look pretty good too, and I love the texture of the shawl. You do knit the loveliest things, and your choice of yarn is always very pretty. CJ xx

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  7. Your posts are always so beautiful and from the heart. And they bring so much joy. Thank you from North Carolina. Kit is beautiful. We have a gray fox that my daughter sees at night outside the Airstream she lives in. I have yet to see him. But we have deer, squirrels and lots of birds that we feed. Thank you again for sharing

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  9. I love your posts, I follow your blog for years. I love animals and I would love to have as much wildlife as you have near my house. I also loved how the muffins look, could you share the recipe? They look delicious.
    Thank you for sharing your life.
    P.S. I apologize for my English, I speak Spanish.

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  10. Wow Julie. Once again, your pictures are just gorgeous. And your Kit — she’s so beautiful! She (?) obviously loves your yard and feels at home there. Maybe in the spring you’ll have some little kits running around?

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  11. Stunning photos Julie! At first I thought those muffins had bacon and cheese bites in them, raspberry and white chocolate sounds divine! There is a wonderful cold weather soup in Japan called Kitsune Soba, it was my absolute favorite thing to eat after a long day outside when I lived there (Tokyo gets some very bone chilling Siberian winds in the Winter), and I had no idea until I saw your blog that kitsune means fox in Japanese and I speak Japanese (however, clearly, the animal kingdom was lost on me)! I came by to find some inspiration but I didn’t realize that I would also feel embraced by the warmth of your family moments. If your blog were a book I would keep it by my side for whenever I needed an amazing pick me up.

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  13. Of all the blogs I follow, this one is such a genuine lift to the day. Your photos of nature are just so beautiful and full of peace. And your gorgeous compositions of wool, knitting, food and cups of TEA are always such a delight. Your blog is an honest but quietly joyous place to check in to every so often – thank you for sharing these snippets with us.
    And that. fox. Stunning. What a beautiful animal.
    Aren’t we blessed with all the little things that surround us every day.

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