A green, blue and yellow striped sock with a red Christmas tree marker sits on a table next to a grey cup of tea, a grey pottery milk jug, a tea pot and a small card with more stitch markers attached

Sunday afternoon

Hello, hello, I hope you’re having a lovely weekend!  I’m a bit later in posting this than I have been recently – I do aim for Fridays but sometimes, the weeks don’t work out...

A single pink rose against a background of snowy leaves

December

It’s here!  The last month of the year and in just a few short weeks, it’s going to be a whole new year.  It’s really quite incredible, isn’t it? It snowed on Sunday.  I...

A black cat is lying on some papers on a table next to a laptop

Monthly Musing – November 2021 – Exam fever

If you’ve got children or grandchildren who are taking their GCSEs next summer, there’s a good chance that your house is a mock exam zone just like ours is right now. Not so small...

November round up – the leaf edition!

I may have got a bit carried away with photos of Autumn leaves once they started to change colour.  I realised that when I was looking through the last of the November photos that...

Dame Zandra Rhodes stands against a pink background that matches the colour of her hair. She is wearing a hand knitted wrap cardigan in shades of pink and blue.

Make a Statement – WYS x Zandra Rhodes collection

Earlier this year, I was chatting to my friends at West Yorkshire Spinners. “We’re really excited that we’re going to be working with an iconic designer this year,” they said.  “Would you like to...

A partly-knitted sock sits on a cream project bag next to a car gear stick.

“Why won’t this thing shut?!”

There has been a disaster on the Emergency Sock front. If you’ve been reading my posts through October (Blogtober) then you’ll have read about my Emergency Sock which is Basic 4ply Sock that lives...