Category: Knitting

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...

A model wearing a yellow short sleeved t-shirt and a pink checked skirt sits on a wire-framed chair and is admiring a pair of orange and yellow colourwork socks on her feet. Her expression is happy surprise

Happy Feet – brand new sock patterns!

What makes for happy feet?  New socks, of course! 🙂 Oh, this has been one BIG secret to keep because not only are there new sock patterns to tell you about, but there’s new...

A view across a crowded stadium towards a stage and a giant screen showing a picture of Harry Styles. He is wearing a red and purple t-shirt and singing into a microphone

Here and there

Has it really been a week since we last chatted?! I hope you’ve had a good one … if you’re in the UK then you’ve probably been a bit too hot and then cold...

Flaming June

It turns out (I have discovered since I started writing this post) that ‘Flaming June” is actually a painting by Sir Frederic Leighton but in our house, the expression has always been used rather...

A partly-knitted sock in purple yarn is sitting on a wooden table. In the background is the cake of purple yarn and an orange mug.

Seven days

The days do pass quickly, don’t they?  Not so small daughter’s school broke up for a week off yesterday – not sure that she’ll even want to get out of bed next week after...

A tortoiseshell and a tabby and white kitten are lying against Christine's legs on a purple checked duvet cover. Christine is wearing blue, pink and purple striped socks and grey joggers.

Saturday

Hello!  How are you doing?  It’s the end of the week already and the end of our first week of Easter school holidays.  It hasn’t really felt like school holidays for us as not...

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