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Quilting

  • two small pine tree foundation paper pieced blocks made with blue and white fabric with text overlay "Free Printable PDF Tiny Trees Foundation Paper Piecing Pattern"
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Halloween fun

  • two glass votive holders covered with white yarn and black spiders to make Halloween candle holders
  • skeleton hand with glowstick necklace and tag for five points with text overlay Cheap & Easy Halloween Party Games
  • three pieces of round fence post painted orange with sticks glued to the top to make fence post pumpkins
  • Free & Printable Halloween Crossword Puzzle with Answer Key
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About alecia

Chicken Scratch NY is where I chat about low-tech living like raising chickens, growing food, quilting, and picking up traditional skills that used to be common knowledge.

Most of the time I’m experimenting, fixing a lot of mistakes, or trying something new.

CSNY is a place for the real version of homestead life: useful, imperfect, always a work in progress & learning old skills without pretending the past was perfect.

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Crafts & DIY

  • 4 skeins of embroidery thread including gray Mouline Etoile, dark green pearl cotton, glow in the dark and orange 6 strand embroidery thread on a white background with text overlay " Guide to Specialty Thread for Punch Needle Embroidery"
  • large glass jar filled with tan brown bath salts with text overlay "easy DIY foaming bath salts"
  • two glass jars holding lime green bath salts on a white surface

Farm

  • large buff Orpington rooster
  • group of young pearl guinea fowl in the snow
  • Easter egger hen in a green field

Garden

  • purple coneflower with text overlay for dividing perennials
  • half whiskey barrel planted filled with a variety of mints and a DIY fairy house

Recipes & Food