I love December. I love Advent, actually, to be more precise. I love prepping for Christmas – baking, making, plotting and planning. I love decorating, I love putting lights up, I love writing Christmas cards and deciding what goodies to bake on any given day. This year, for obvious reasons, things are looking rather different! … More Glad tidings of great joy I bring
This is a fly-by visit just to let you all know that Little Miss arrived safely on 2nd August. She has already made her preferences quite clear as to how things should be arranged to her liking, but despite this, both of us are doing okay. Learning as we go! I will be back with … More Hello world
I am back, as promised, with a new pattern for you all! A lovely one-ball Christmas stocking for you all. With post stitches, because would it be me if I didn’t include post stitches in a pattern? 😀 The lovely people at Stylecraft have released some new Christmassy yarns this year, and I spotted this … More Diamond Nights Christmas Stocking
Hello! And welcome to the Stylecraft ‘Blogstar on the Beach’ party 😀 After the fun we had last year, working on the Blogstars Garden Party, we decided we simply had to do something similar again this year. This year, rather than a garden party, we’ve geared up to head out to a beach. And this … More Pretty Parasol
First off – and forgive me – I have to get the obligatory Doctor Who reference out of the way. For several weeks while crocheting these, I kept hearing David Tennant’s Doctor in my head telling me not to blink, because obviously, as a Doctor Who geek, these quotations are burned into my mind. However, … More Army of Angels
Phew, what a month it’s been. December was such a chaotic, hectic whirligig that I’m not even certain I know what happened in it, except that there was a week where it was so horrible cold and I had to keep going out into it to defrost the chickens water, and obviously there was Christmas … More Ta da! Christmas blankets
I have finished my Sophie’s Universe, woohoo! I say ‘my’ Sophie’s Universe, but it is of course actually intended as a wedding present for one of my carers, carer J, who is engaged but with no date set. I very much wanted to make her a special blanket for her wedding, but I also didn’t … More Ta da! Sophie’s Universe
Have you all been following the Stylecraft Blogstars Garden Party? It’s been so much fun to take part in this. It’s always great working in tandem with the other blogstars, and it’s so interesting to see how we all took the same starting point (garden party and ‘pastel colours’) and came up with different things. … More Paja’s Party
By now I imagine many of you have seen the fantabulous news that Stylecraft’s 2022 crochet-along has been designed by none other than yours truly 😀 Under the Sea is the blanket I designed a year ago, and it’s so thrilling to finally be able to share it with you all! I actually began the … More Under the Sea
We are deeply into the January cold in my part of the world, with lots of frost and mist and a definite need to snuggle under piles of blankets. However, believe it or not, spring really is just around the corner. Snowdrop and crocus shoots are already beginning to show above ground, and the days … More Bees ‘n’ Bugs ‘n’ Butterflies Wreath
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