Tagged: 2022

A pad of writing paper with a pink and blue cover lies on a table. On top of the pad is a clear plastic pencil case filled with pens and next to it on the table is a blue lanyard with the word "student" printed on it

A new routine

September has long felt like the start of a new year for me, and this year has been no different. Not so small daughter has started college, school runs have finished for us as...

The sun is shining through a tree onto a garden filled with greenery. The Winwick Mum logo is in the bottom right hand corner.

HM Queen Elizabeth II – 1926-2022

Photo currently unavailable   I didn’t expect to be as upset by the passing of HM The Queen as I have been.  It’s taken me quite by surprise, to be honest, and I’ve been...

Four knitted socks in sizes from large to baby are hanging on a mantelpiece decorated with Christmas greenery and fairy lights. Each of the socks is a different style but all are knitting in WYS Gingerbread yarn

Gingerbread – WYS Christmas 2022 yarn

In what has become a tradition almost as eagerly as awaited as the Christmas TV programmes schedule, the WYS Christmas sock yarn for 2022 has been released!  Hooray!  West Yorkshire Spinners have been producing...

The sun is shining through a tree onto a garden filled with greenery. The Winwick Mum logo is in the bottom right hand corner.

Monthly Musing – August 2022 – Time revisited

The school Summer holidays are nearly over here in England. It’s the last day of August. Almost seven weeks have passed by and where has that time gone? What have we done with all...

A sock in rainbow colours on a dark blue background is lying on a pale wood table next to the cake of yarn. There are two working yarns on this sock. In the background is a leather project back with the brand name MUUD on it.

August days

When not so small daughter finished school back in June, we said that we would make sure that we didn’t waste the extra-long summer holiday that she has this year. The main mission was...

Two partly-knitted heel flaps in different self-striping yarn sit side by side so that the stitches can be compared

Should I slip knitwise or purlwise?

“Should I slip knitwise or purlwise?” is one of the most common questions that gets asked in my Winwick Mum Sockalong Facebook group (the real-time help group for the Sockalong tutorials). The question relates...

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