Tagged: 2023

A small wooden coffee table with a white plate and a cut glass of whisky on it. There is a mince pie and a carrot on the plate and a Christmas tree decorated with lights in the background.

Christmas Eve

It seems that you are never too old in our house to leave a mince pie and a glass of whisky for Father Christmas, nor a carrot for Rudolph. You’re also never too old...

A hyacinth bulb in a glass jar next to an Advent candle in a reindeer-shaped chrome holder. Both are sitting on a wooden mantelpiece

Midwinter

One of my favourite Christmas carols has always been “In the bleak midwinter”, probably because the first verse is all about a snowy landscape, but I don’t think that growing up, I ever really...

An Advent candle in a chrome reindeer-shaped holder next to a metal house-shaped light decoration. The back wall is wooden and there is a star hanging from it

Words from Duvet HQ

Ugh, I’ve got a cold.  It’s not so bad that it’s stopping me from doing stuff that I need to do, but it is bad enough that I had a two hour nap yesterday...

A purple book with a purple pen lying across it is on a wooden coffee table in front of an open fire. There is a glass of prosecco and a partly-knitted sock on the table too.

What a week!

Wow, wow, WOW! What a week it’s been – I could never have imagined that Project Super Socks would prove to be as popular as it has, and I can’t say thank you enough! I...

A purple notebook entitled Project Super Socks with a name plate to write a name on is lying on a white wooden floor next to two pair of small socks, one in blue stripes and the other in green stripes. There's a succulent plant in the top left hand corner

Project Super Socks

It’s Tuesday 5 December and that means it’s Project Super Socks day!  Woohoo! Up until now, all of the books that I’ve written – Super Socks, More Super Socks and the pattern books designed for and with...