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...
Category: Knitting
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...
No-nylon sock yarn review: Blacker Yarns Tamar Lustre Blend 4ply
I finished knitting my Blacker Yarns Tamar Lustre Blend 4ply socks just before the Edinburgh Yarn Festival in March this year. I was really pleased with them. The pattern is Arwen from The Sock...
Winwick Mum Sockalong Knit n Natter Meet Up
What are you doing on Saturday 4 November? There’s a Winwick Mum knit n natter meet up planned … do come along if you’re free! You don’t have to be a knitter, bring any...
