We’ve just arrived home after one of the best holidays we’ve ever been on. But I don’t want to tell you about it. Asturias in northern Spain is so beautiful and so unspoilt, and so un-touristy that I don’t want the secret to get out. It’s the very definition of a “best kept secret” destination […]
7 Things to Consider When you Pack Knitting and Crochet for a Holiday
I’ve talked before about how I love to crochet on the move – when I was commuting into London every day, I was always crocheting furiously on the train. Now I used to get a bit carried away with the projects I took with me sometimes, often working on my favourite WIP whatever it may […]
My Latest Project Bag Upgrade
Introducing the Happy Crocheting Yarn Drum! I think it’s fairly well documented that I crochet on the move quite a lot. My Instagram is littered with photos of me crafting on trains, I’ve written here before about my love of commuter crochet, it’s kind of just my “thing”! So I was over the moon to […]
Italian Inspiration on the Amalfi Coast
We recently returned from a lovely week on the Amalfi Coast in Italy, somewhere I’d wanted to visit for years. It’s hard not to have it on the wish list of European holidays after no more than one Google image search – the rocky coastline is incredibly picturesque. In terms of scenery, the Amalfi coast […]
Commuter Crochet – a Beginner’s Guide
Anyone who follows me on Instagram will be aware that my favourite hashtag is #commutercrochet. As a London commuter, I spend a lot of my time crocheting on trains. I can’t say enough positive stuff about commuter crochet – I genuinely love it. Commuting had a lot to do with my decision to learn to […]
Summer in Somerset
Last weekend we had our annual doggy holiday, and we’re all still in a bit of a blissed out, “I-want-to-move-there” state after a fantastic few days in rural Somerset. This was in our garden – can you spot Poppy hiding in the dappled shade? Last year we took Poppy away for the first time to Scotland […]
San Francisco – Yarn Heaven!
San Francisco has to be one of my favourite places in the world, so I was delighted when we managed to shoehorn it into our recent holiday to the USA. When I say shoehorn it in, I mean it – we had already decided to go to Florida, so we decided it would be the […]
Finding colour inspiration in the sun.
So I’ve just about recovered from the jetlag from our recent amazing holiday to the USA. For some reason this time the jetlag was horrendous on the way back – a combination of three different time zones, a daylight saving clock change and one of the worst long haul flights I’ve ever been on on […]