Category: Knitting

Knitting socks with Arne and Carlos

Quite a few people wondered what I was doing at Black Sheep Wools last week when I arrived for the latest Arne and Carlos workshop – their sock masterclass.  “Don’t you already know everything about...

Happy things

What’s made you happy this week?  For me, it’s been … 💕  walking with the dog Even when the weather is a bit rubbish and I can hear the rain on the windows before I...

From sheep to socks – sorting fleeces

Warning – this post is sheep-heavy! 🙂 The weather was pretty rubbish for the whole of the half term school holiday that we had here in the UK a couple of weeks ago, and...

Knit all the socks!

And here we are at another weekend.  Not many to go now before Christmas, I have been reliably informed by small daughter who keeps waving her wish list at me.  It’s different every time...

Candy Cane Socks – and a new heel flap!

Normally, I don’t like to think about *whispers* Christmas until Hallowe’en has been and gone.  I’m not a Bah Humbug kind of person at all, and I might have been buying the odd present here...

British Knitting & Crochet Awards 2017

This was my view on last Thursday afternoon as I got out of a taxi at Alexandra Palace and looked across the London skyline.  I’d travelled down from Warrington earlier that morning to meet...