How gorgeous is this yarn that arrived on my doorstep last week? It’s from the talented Emma at Woolly Mammoth Fibre Co. who specialises in naturally dyed non-superwash yarns. Her colours and fibre bases always blow me away. I’m amazed at the colours that…
Since I missed Friday, here are six things that have brought me joy this week. This has been a difficult week, and I can’t remember the last time I was this relieved to have made it to the weekend so…
Have you been following Karen Templer’s #FringeandFriendsLogalong? I’ll admit, when I first read about it I dismissed log cabin knitting as not really for me. I was still intrigued enough to follow from the sidelines, and well, you can now…
If you follow me on Instagram you might have seen that back in December, 3 weeks before Christmas, I decided to knit Graeme a jumper for Christmas. Spoiler: it took a little longer than 3 weeks, but I did get it…
Oh dear, a week in and I’m already tardy! Needless to say, this week has flown, but here are five things that have made me smile this week. 1. Sunday afternoon at the beach. Salt tang in the air, the…
Sometime at the beginning of last year I started a daily gratitude journal. As an anxious overthinker who tends to dwell on the negative, I loved how it shifted my perspective and refocused my attention onto more positive emotions. Then…
I used to pass by a market stall on my way home from university. They would sell huge bags of ripe bananas for about 20p a bag that I would gleefully snap up to make big batches of banana bread….
Yesterday I finally finished knitting my socks. They were cast on back in January. The yarn isn’t particularly special, but it’s a beautiful pale grey marl. Grey and marl. Two of my favourite things! There’s no real reason why these…
When I was growing up our neighbours had elder trees that would overhang our garden. I remember the balmy early summer mornings when my dad would pick the frothy blossoms. He would gather them all up to make cordial, and…
first sweet peas of the summer Wandering about the garden yesterday revealed this beauties – the first four precious little sweet pea blooms from the plants that I grew from seed earlier in the year. I squealed with delight, and…
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