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I don’t want to tell you about Asturias

05.11.2017 by Elsie Pop // 16 Comments

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 […]

Categories // Personal, Travel Tags // asturias, europe, european travel, holidays, oviedo, personal, spain, travel

7 Things to Consider When you Pack Knitting and Crochet for a Holiday

05.07.2017 by Elsie Pop // 2 Comments

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 […]

Categories // Crochet, Knitting, Travel Tags // crochet, crochet on the move, holiday, knitting, knitting on the move, tips, travel, vacation

My Latest Project Bag Upgrade

09.28.2016 by Elsie Pop // 8 Comments

yarn bag

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 […]

Categories // Crochet, Reviews, Travel Tags // crochet, project bag, reviews, yarn bag, yarn storage

Italian Inspiration on the Amalfi Coast

08.24.2016 by Elsie Pop // 17 Comments

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 […]

Categories // Travel Tags // crochet inspiration, italy, pattern inspiration, travel

Commuter Crochet – a Beginner’s Guide

04.03.2016 by Elsie Pop // 23 Comments

Commuter Crochet

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 […]

Categories // Crochet, Travel, Tunisian crochet Tags // commuter crochet, crochet, crochet tips, project bags, tips, travel

Summer in Somerset

07.12.2015 by Elsie Pop // Leave a Comment

Yellow Labrador covered in mud up to hips

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 […]

Categories // Travel, Yarn Tags // dog, holiday, somerset, travel, vacation, yarn, yarn shop

San Francisco – Yarn Heaven!

04.22.2015 by Elsie Pop // Leave a Comment

Variegated yarns, Imagiknit

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 […]

Categories // Travel Tags // alcatraz, birds, boat trips, crochet, holiday, photography, san francisco, travel, vacation, yarn, yarn shops

Finding colour inspiration in the sun.

04.15.2015 by Elsie Pop // 2 Comments

Sunset on Anna Maria Island

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 […]

Categories // Travel Tags // art deco, color, colour, colour inspiration, florida, holiday, photography, project planning, sunset, vacation

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