Category: Knitting

A skein of pink yarn lies across a knitting pattern on a wooden garden table next to a glass of lemonade

Back to school week

Hello hello, how are you doing?  Another week has flown past, hasn’t it? Thank you for taking the time to comment on last week’s post on avoiding colour pooling and flashing both here and on...

A pair of blue variegated socks on wooden sock blockers against a white wooden board background. There is a shell and a ceramic starfish next to the socks.

Avoiding colour pooling and flashing on sock gussets

There’s something very exciting about knitting with a variegated yarn and seeing how the colours turn out – often it’s not at all how you’d expect! Take a look at the pair of Mermaid’s...

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...

A selection of huge planters filled with plants in front of the RHS Bridgewater welcome building. The wooden-clad centre is behind with the RHS name and logo in silver letters

RHS Bridgewater

We have many roles within our own lifetimes – children, parents, partners, friends, workers – we should never think of ourselves as just doing one thing, and amongst my other roles, I am both...

A blue-petalled flower against green leaves with a yellow flower in the background

July days

I’m not quite sure how we have arrived in July when I am sure it was much earlier in the year the last time I looked! I think that being off the blog for...