No-nylon sock yarn review: Northern Yarn Poll Dorset Lambswool
It seems like such a long time ago now that I posted my Easy Cable Socks pattern which I knitted using Northern Yarn Poll Dorset Lambswool 4ply. In fact, it’s six months ago which...
Category: Knitting
Easy Lace Socks tutorial – getting started
At the beginning of this year when I posted the tutorial for my Easy Cable Socks, I said that my focus for this year would be on bridging the gap between the basic 4ply...
First week of the holidays
Oh, it’s been wonderful to get off the treadmill this week, although it’s surprised me how fast the time has gone. Late mornings, pyjama days, no school runs … it’s been a much calmer...
Saturday
Hi, how’s your weekend going? It’s been another warm and sunny one here, and the Trachelospermum jasminoides (star jasmine) has been a wonder to behold and smell (besmell? Could there even be such a...
Knitting birds with Arne and Carlos
It was a bright, sunny morning on Wednesday when I dropped small daughter off at school and headed the couple of miles from Winwick to Black Sheep Wools in Culcheth. It always feels very...
Socks away!
It’s the second week of small daughter’s school holidays and … it’s raining. She won’t mind at all as she’s engrossed in a series of books which my brother and sister-in-law sent her called...
