Category: Knitting

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...

A much better week!

Happy Saturday to you! There’s a much more cheerful blog post coming up today – and I want to say thank you so much to everyone who left me a comment or emailed me...

A pair of blue variegated socks with solid blue cuffs, heels and toes are modelled to look like a mermaid's tail. There is a bag of shells to the left and a ceramic starfish to the right of the socks.

Spotted somewhere in the north west …

A strange creature with a mermaid-like tail … or perhaps they were just feet in brand new socks! I am so pleased to have these socks off the needles and onto my feet!  It...