How I make it work: I can decide when I want to do crafts, plus my mum and husband often help with the horses
Beck Burton gave up a high-flying corporate life in London to follow her dream of setting up a small-scale craft enterprise in Mid Wales, where she keeps three horses
My job…
I make woolly things, and I love taking the raw material through every stage by hand to the beautiful finished object that someone can use in their home. I use the raw fleece from local producers, and firstly I ‘skirt’ the fleece, getting rid of the dirty bits, after which I wash out the dirt and lanolin. It then gets combed or carded to make all the fibres lie in the same direction. Then I decide what it's
