Category: Christmas

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...

Merry Christmas!

Our plans might have changed, but whatever goes on in the world, the days pass and Christmas Eve is here. The curtains are closed, shutting out the world and leaving us in our own...

Christmas countdown

Hello, hello, how are you doing? It’s Thursday today and we’re rushing towards Christmas … small daughter breaks up from school this week and my husband is taking some well-deserved time off work. I...

WYS Christmas yarns and socks 2020

Well, have I got something lovely to talk to you about today! I haven’t been able to say much about what I was knitting over the Spring and Summer this year, but now all...