Tagged: socks

A model wearing a yellow short sleeved t-shirt and a pink checked skirt sits on a wire-framed chair and is admiring a pair of orange and yellow colourwork socks on her feet. Her expression is happy surprise

Happy Feet – brand new sock patterns!

What makes for happy feet?  New socks, of course! 🙂 Oh, this has been one BIG secret to keep because not only are there new sock patterns to tell you about, but there’s new...

A view across a crowded stadium towards a stage and a giant screen showing a picture of Harry Styles. He is wearing a red and purple t-shirt and singing into a microphone

Here and there

Has it really been a week since we last chatted?! I hope you’ve had a good one … if you’re in the UK then you’ve probably been a bit too hot and then cold...

Flaming June

It turns out (I have discovered since I started writing this post) that ‘Flaming June” is actually a painting by Sir Frederic Leighton but in our house, the expression has always been used rather...

A strand of turquoise blue yarn lies on a pale wooden table. The yarn has broken and been plied together again, leaving fluffy edges at either end of the join.

Help, there’s a knot in my yarn!

“Help, help, there’s a knot in my yarn!” Anybody who has ever bought a ball or skein of yarn, whether commercially produced or hand-dyed, has probably come across a join, knot or a dye...

A partly-knitted sock in purple yarn is sitting on a wooden table. In the background is the cake of purple yarn and an orange mug.

Seven days

The days do pass quickly, don’t they?  Not so small daughter’s school broke up for a week off yesterday – not sure that she’ll even want to get out of bed next week after...

Catching up

And then suddenly it was April!  Ta dah! I feel like the months have magically changed months without me even noticing … one day it was March and then before I knew it, it...