Category: Knitting

Christine is wearing her new Wildflower socks and wiggling her toes! The socks are pictured against a damp stone flag background.

Blogtober 2021 : Day 9

Saturday today – hooray!  I love Saturdays, they are my official “day off” and I love the deliciousness of waking up and knowing that there’s nothing that I need to do that isn’t exactly...

The sun is behind Christine and the dog and it throws their shadows onto the woodland path.

Blogtober 2021 : Day 7

Hooray!  Sunshine! After all the rain of the last couple of days, it was lovely to be outside and feel the warmth from the sun, even if it was that Autumn sun without the...

A partly-knitted purple shawl on two long double pointed needles. A sheet marked with rows worked and the pattern are visible, and one of the needles is pushed into a knitting belt

Blogtober 2021 : Day 6

It’s quite a relief to see blue sky today albeit with more than a few clouds in there.  Phew, it didn’t half put down some rain last night!  It was windy too, and the...

Close up of orange crocosmia flowers and their green strap-like leaves against a background of plants.

Blogtober 2021 : Day 3

Happy Sunday! Well, the weather never picked up yesterday so I didn’t go outside to finish off the border.  Even though it did stop raining for a bit, it was so wet that I...

A overgrown garden border. There are plants and weeds, an old Belfast sink with plant pots in it and it all looks like a lot of work!

Blogtober 2021 : Day 2

It’s Day 2 of Blogtober and so far so good … I’m still here! 🙂 My plan for today was to finish off working on the garden border that I’ve been revamping – it...

The ground is littered with fallen leaves and conkers. A pair of purple wellies are at the bottom of the photo

Blogtober 2021 : Day 1

Well, hello to you! It’s 1 October and that means it’s Blogtober!  In case you’ve never heard of it, it’s an entire month of daily blog posts, sometimes on a particular subject if you...