Frocks, Socks and Everything in Between

Happy New Year and all that.  I was going to do a round up of all the millions of things I made this year before today, but the germs attac...

Solistice.  It's half four, and it's been dark for nearly half an hour now.  Not unusual in the Winter, but after the next few days...

The Sunday night knitting klaxon is going off again. I've not made a huge amount of progress since my last update; which isn't ...

I have ill for absolutely ages.  Yesterday was the first day I've felt even vaguely human, so I went for run, and then sat on the sofa...

*SUNDAY NIGHT KNITTING KLAXON AGAIN* I am ill.  Not really ill, but ill enough.  I cough and cough and cough, and it's awful during ...

*MONDAY NIGHT KNITTING KLAXON* It's that time again.  I'm running out of oomph for knitting at the moment.  It's all happeni...

*SUNDAY NIGHT KNITTING CLAXON AGAIN* I've not written anything for a few days; we've been terribly, terribly busy with half term...

*SUNDAY NIGHT KNITTING CLAXON* A Knit List Update For the girls: An Owlet for Hattie - very close to starting this Ringo and Elwoo...

Sewing is taking over my life.  I can't do anything else at the moment, it's all so exciting.  I've been making Lucy a special ...

Some more about knitting and sewing.  Brace yourselves. So far, I have made the following things for this super exciting sew and knit ...

Which in my case is knitting, not film reviews. I haven't written about my current year of projects for a while, simply because it is...

A bit about the knit list 2014 - 2015. I have to confess to cheating slightly when I drew up the list. I was already more than 50% t...

The Year of Projects runs from July to June, and so I really need a new list.  Last year was partially successful, so I'm going to up ...

WARNING.  THIS IS ABOUT KNITTING.  LOOK AWAY NOW. Apparently, it's been a year since I started the whole "Year of Projects"...

Handmade May is nearly halfway through now, and I've really had a good look at my wardrobe and the clothes in it.  It turns out that I ...

It's about crafty stuff again, not politics, so don't feel you have to read on. Handmade Monday again, and I should probably do s...

It's been a good day today.  The sun has been shining, the children have been happy, Lucy managed to keep it together until just before...

Last night, at around 10pm, I had a super idea.  Why not post something fascinating, witty, scintillating and generally all round great EVE...

I'm having a bit of a deep red phase at the moment, wanting to use up the monstrous stash; the wool was bought for this pattern ab...

At the tail end of last year, one of the members of the crochet groups on Facebook put up a picture of her weather blanket.  I'm not su...