A road sign next to a moorland road. The red letters on the white background read "Sheeep" (sheep with 3 E's)

Sheeep!

I went to see my friend Lucy on Tuesday.  I haven’t seen her since before Christmas so it felt like a long time since I had driven across the moors to Skipton.  We had...

Winter Haven KAL 2022 – Week 1

Hello, hello, it’s lovely to see you!  Welcome to Week 1 of the Winter Haven KAL 2022! Outside, there are alternating showers of snow and hailstones, it’s bitterly cold and I think there’s probably...

A pair of feet wearing a pair of mosic patterned socks stretched out on a hearth by an open fire. Th

Easy Mosaic Socks – free pattern and tutorial

When is a colourwork sock not a colourwork sock? When it’s an Easy Mosaic Sock! I know that sounds like a bad cracker joke, but it’s actually a bit of magic that will let...

A pair of feet in green, blue, yellow and red striped socks are resting, ankles crossed, in front of a roaring open fire. To the right is a bucket of coal and to the left is an ornamental house decoration, lit up from the inside so that the windows are illuminated, next to a tangle of coloured fairy lights

Winter Haven KAL 2022 – it’s nearly here!

We’re counting down to this year’s Winter Haven KAL! The KAL starts on 7 January 2022 (this Friday), so I thought that with just four days to go (and three before the new pattern...

A green steam train standing at a station with people waiting to get on

All aboard!

“The train now leaving platform 2021 is the 2022 bound for …” Bound for where?  Where are we going?  The calendar stretches out before us and as we move into a new year, that...

A partly-knitted sock in Autumn shades of brown, green and red with a cream contrast yarn is on a sock blocker with the words Winwick Mum lasered into the wood

Quiet days

Well, hello to you!  I hope you are keeping well, warm (or cool), safe and dry and that if you celebrated Christmas, you had a lovely one.  Thank you very much for all your...