On the last day of September

I can’t tell you how many years I’ve been singing that line of the song about the Big Ship which sailed on the Ally Ally Oh to myself on 30 September, but it’s been more than I’ve probably ever counted.  I even wrote a Monthly Musing on it!

Anyway, here we are at the end of September and as “new years” go (I wrote here about September feeling like a New Year for me), I think this has been a pretty good one.  I’ve stuck to all of the intentions I made for myself and I’m feeling pretty good about what’s coming next as the months roll on.  You are one of the reasons for that – thank you so much for all of your comments on last week’s post when I asked you what you thought about my releasing more patterns.  I love having these conversations with you through the blog and I really appreciate what you have to say on what I’ve been writing about.

So, buoyed by your kind words, the Sofa Snuggle Socks pattern has been written up and sent off to Helen, my lovely tech editor who absolutely gets my wordiness and helps me to be a better pattern writer, and my girls have been persuaded to model the socks for the pattern photo shoot and I hope to have it ready to share with you before too long.

As you can probably guess, this photo shoot was more like herding cats until I finally managed to explain exactly what it was that I wanted – and if you read yesterday’s Monthly Musing about photos, you’ll know that there are a LOT on my camera roll that will probably never be seen again! 🙂

I will keep you posted on pattern progress – and as well as saying thank you for your comments about the socks, I want to say thank you as well to those of you who told me that you work for food banks.  If you missed the previous post, I mentioned that I wanted to make a donation from the sale of this pattern to the Trussell Trust, a national organisation which supports food banks (I know there are many more local charities now also provide this service), and after reading your comments, I was absolutely convinced that this is the right thing to do.  Your work to help people who find themselves without anything to eat is one essential job that I wish nobody had to do and one day, perhaps there will be no need for food banks at all, but I am very glad that you do xx

Right then, onto today’s Fieldwatch photos … in last week’s post, I was talking about the changes that have been taking place in the fields around Winwick.  Crops have been harvested and Winter wheat seeds have been sown and in just a week’s time, look at this!

Even in the blue flax field which was sown a little later, there’s a definite green fuzz and I am quite sure that the next time the dog and I take that path, everything will look very green again.

Today, we’ve been to the Nine Arches – I haven’t been there for quite a while so it was nice to go back again, although it would have been nicer if it wasn’t raining!

It didn’t last long, but it was on and off rain for the whole of our walk so my coat hood was up and then down and then up again – it’s not quite cold enough for a hat when I’m walking, although it’s been cold enough in the house for me to light the fire and wear my socks in bed!

I’ve missed these brick arches.  I know that probably sounds a bit daft but I really like them!

They’re so big and so old.  They are so tall that I have to crane my neck to see the top of them (I am standing at the bottom of the arch here and I’m 5ft 6″ tall so you can see that they are pretty big arches!) and they are so curved.  Square things made to curve.  I’m easily pleased.

I’m almost done for today and this hasn’t been the longest blog post ever (you might be glad of that!) but there’s a reason … tomorrow is 1 October and I have decided that I’m going to join in with Blogtober again this year.  I’ll explain more tomorrow, but Blogtober is a month-long blogging challenge where you post every day.  Some people choose to use prompts but last year, I just wrote about whatever was happening that day or was in my mind and that worked very well for me.  You can find last year’s Blogtober posts here if you want to have a look – oh, and just like last year, if you’re on my mailing list then don’t worry that you’re going to get bombarded as I’ll still only send the links email once a week.

It’ll be lovely if you want to pop in once or twice during the October weeks but don’t worry about keeping up – we’ve all got things to do (and now I’m taking on a daily blogging challenge! 🤣 ) so I’ll see you if I see you! xx