Hi Sally, until 6 minutes ago I had no idea that the phrase "hedge bothering" even existed and now I'm convinced it's the most wonderful phrase ever, thank you for sharing it! I can't wait to get out and about in my local area to find some Blackthorn and try this out for myself 👍
@SallyPointer
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you! 'Hedge-bothering' started out as a joke phrase to describe my early morning foraging excursions, but it's become something a lot of people can identify with. Got to have a bit of silliness in all this :)
@oliverg6864
Жыл бұрын
Haha I just assumed it was a common British expression!
@kristenvincent3622
Жыл бұрын
Our Hawthorns can actually pierce a tractor tyre here in the PNW of Canada. Going to be planing out a Blackthorn hedge next year. Neat use of a natural product!
@bizzlecrafts
5 жыл бұрын
Love this! I always see amazing classes you do but I'm an ocean away. I'm so glad to see you posting this. I agree the "hedge bothering" is an amazing turn of phrase.
@SallyPointer
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I love sharing these skills and ideas with people, and hopefully as I get the hang of making KZitem videos they will get bigger and better.
@frakierG
11 ай бұрын
We have a invasive tree Bradford Pear [Callery pear] here in the southern US, makes some decent pins and I've dried a few to make needles with. Constantly having to hunt them down and pull the trees out by the roots anyway so good to have some use out of them. The thorns can be dangerous and can cause flat tires on farm, yard and lawn equipment.
@pixiesmate
Жыл бұрын
As children we used blackthorn spines to make darts fired from small "pea shooters" not quite as useful but that's boys for you😊
@onegreenev
5 жыл бұрын
Hedge Bothering. Love it. :)
@kitdubhran2968
4 жыл бұрын
I adore all of your “historic sewing kit” videos.
@woollyfingers
5 жыл бұрын
Today’s addition to my vocabulary!
@phillipstroll7385
Жыл бұрын
They make great fishing hooks too
@DirtmopAZ
5 жыл бұрын
Love it! Can’t wait to see more
@QuantumMechanic_88
4 жыл бұрын
Your video is Excellent . Thank you .
@KateGladstone
2 жыл бұрын
A fun fact about thorns and pins - to this day, the word for “pin” in Hebrew is the same as the word for “thorn.”
@SallyPointer
2 жыл бұрын
I didn't know that! Thank you
@melissajade30
4 жыл бұрын
Wow love your videos. I'm leading so much xx
@SallyPointer
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@dscrive
5 жыл бұрын
Hmm, maybe I shouldn't have removed all the honey locust from my property years ago. They grow extremely sharp hard thorns. If I recall I've seen some as long as 8 inches. but most seem about 2 inches. I removed them due to the damage to person and property they were causing, impaled flesh and tires mostly
@garethbaus5471
5 жыл бұрын
Locust does have some nasty thorns. It also makes good firewood.
@EV-D-10
2 жыл бұрын
Black thorn, do you mean Prunus spinosa? Thank you for this wonderful upload!!
@SallyPointer
2 жыл бұрын
That's right
@Alittlepillowcompanyhome
2 жыл бұрын
Fun!
@reginadegiovanni6685
4 жыл бұрын
Peruvians used cactus spines
@44_kai
4 жыл бұрын
You are absolutely interesting! The information you share is stuff I never knew I wanted to know. It is quite fascinating. Thank you.
@onegreenev
5 жыл бұрын
Dull knife for scraping and a sharp one for whittling the bits from the thorn. Please use sharp knives. Dull knives for cutting are dangerous. Dull for scraping is fine. Love your little videos.
@SallyPointer
5 жыл бұрын
I'm usually very diligent about sharp knives, this knife wasn't my usual one and I hadn't realised when I picked it up how much it needed a good sharpening. Completely agree sharp knives are safer as well as nicer to use!
@teamcrumb
5 жыл бұрын
she acknowledged it wasn't sharp enough and didn't hurt her self
@onegreenev
5 жыл бұрын
I am aware, I watched the video. Just a reminder to others as well.
@yelena86
3 жыл бұрын
👍✌️🙏❤️
@AnimeShinigami13
2 жыл бұрын
can these pins, (and the hawthorn thorns) be fire hardened? can you use these for needle felting? and what would you reccomend for a north american equivalent?
@SallyPointer
2 жыл бұрын
They don't need fire hardening, they are plenty strong as it is. Definitely experiment with any good strong thorn you have locally. There's no barbs on them so not ideal for needle felting
@AnimeShinigami13
2 жыл бұрын
@@SallyPointer they don't look like they could be notched with a fine knife point either. there are some trees that don't actually have thorns but have these psudo thorns that turn into branches i should try.
@AnimeShinigami13
2 жыл бұрын
@@SallyPointer i'm preparing green milkweed for fibercrafts, someone chopped a huge swath of them down with a weed whacker at the community center today. but he did spare the ones that were budding so I'm trying to see if i can make cord from them. not all of them are developed enough, but the handle of my multitool is able to beat them like you do with nettles and i am getting some fiber. and to the credit of their maitenence guy Kelly, he's left some places fallow and is mowing them down one at a time over a few weeks as he's asked to. there's a whole section of wildflowers in the shade that he's left too! I also grabbed a handful of dead dutch iris leaves from last year. they feel wirey. i was able to hang huge chunks of dogbane fiber at home too, when I twisted them plying style around a piece of rebar sticking out of a rusted utility ladder they held the twist for easily twenty minutes or half an hour.
@gmr1241
4 жыл бұрын
Somebody I used to know wondered which came first - thread or needles... Ummm...
@SallyPointer
4 жыл бұрын
I suppose it depends a little on how you define thread! However, there's fair evidence of awls preceding eyed needles if you want to offer them that option.
@ragnkja
2 жыл бұрын
@@SallyPointer That makes sense, because a pointy thing is simpler than a pointy thing with a hole through it.
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