Category: Christmas

A small wooden coffee table with a white plate and a cut glass of whisky on it. There is a mince pie and a carrot on the plate and a Christmas tree decorated with lights in the background.

Christmas Eve

It seems that you are never too old in our house to leave a mince pie and a glass of whisky for Father Christmas, nor a carrot for Rudolph. You’re also never too old...

A pair of feet resting on a wooden coffee table, wearing hand knitted socks in stripes of blue, green, red and gold

Nutcracker – WYS Christmas 2023 yarn

Please do not adjust your screen – it really is Christmas in August as the WYS Christmas 2023 yarn has been released today!  Woohoo!  The West Yorkshire Spinners Christmas yarns have become something of...

A large star decorated with berries hangs on a wood-panelled wall. Below is a vase of flowers and a bronze-coloured Christmas decoration

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve.  We’re ready now, or as ready as we’re going to be. It’s time to stop, to sit down, to be thankful for family and friends. I hope that you can be with...

Four knitted socks in sizes from large to baby are hanging on a mantelpiece decorated with Christmas greenery and fairy lights. Each of the socks is a different style but all are knitting in WYS Gingerbread yarn

Gingerbread – WYS Christmas 2022 yarn

In what has become a tradition almost as eagerly as awaited as the Christmas TV programmes schedule, the WYS Christmas sock yarn for 2022 has been released!  Hooray!  West Yorkshire Spinners have been producing...

Christmas Eve

The gift socks are finished, the mince pies are in the oven and I’m ready for Christmas. It’s another strange year for those who celebrate and I hope that you are able to spend the...

A pair of green, blue, pink, red and purple sparkly socks modelled on feet. The model is surrounded by tinsel, baubles and rolls of gift ribbon.

Vintage Tinsel – WYS Christmas 2021 yarn

Psst!  I know it’s a bit early to be talking about Christmas, but would you like to see something new? You would?  I thought so! Ta dah! These socks are called Twinkle Toes and...