Category: Yarn Festivals

Yarndale Sock Line socks are go!

Actually, they’ve gone, all of them.  Off to new homes and to provide toasty toes to people who need some extra socky love. If you’re new to the blog (and welcome to you if...

Behind the scenes at Yarndale 2015 – part 2

I was up early on the Saturday morning of the Yarndale weekend.  Too early, it turned out, for the kitchen to be open at my hotel but I got to see the sun rise...

Behind the scenes at Yarndale 2015 – part 1

Have you ever wondered just what goes into putting the Yarndale festival together?  For the last two years, I was a visitor to Yarndale and by the time I got into the Auction Mart...

Ticking along

It’s been a strange few weeks for us, with one thing and another.  Time has seemed to turn to elastic and something that happened only a few days ago feels like a lifetime away...

Yarndale Sock Line at Yarndale 2015

I still find it quite amazing that it was only five months ago that the Winwick Mum Sockalong started and since then so many people have started knitting socks who felt that for whatever...

Two more sleeps before Yarndale!

Yarndale is getting closer! I’m going up to Skipton tomorrow to put up  the Yarndale Sock Line socks and help out generally – it’ll be fascinating to  see “behind the scenes” and I’ll be...