Whew! I’ve just got home after a fabulous day at Unravel 2017 in Farnham – I am sure it gets better there every year! This year’s festival saw me learning about (and, er, buying) some yarn brands I hadn’t seen before, as well as seeing all my favourites. As I have done the last couple […]
Dyeing my own yarn – a few firsts!
Over the course of running this blog, I’ve made no secret of my love for exciting yarns. If it’s got more than one colour in it, I’m all in. I love hand-dyed yarns, gradient yarns, self striping sock yarns and generally anything interesting. I love working with a fun yarn, and using a simple technique […]
80s Bonfire Night Crochet Cowl
It’s bonfire night tonight in the UK – one of the weirdest traditions we have on these little islands, where we celebrate a historic plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament by setting off a load of fireworks and lighting a bonfire with an effigy on the top. We’re a strange nation. But no-one […]
All I Want For Christmas Is… Yarn.
Ok, that’s a lie – I also want other crafty things. But in general, I’m hoping Santa takes the hint this year and delivers a load of crafty goodness on Christmas day. As it’s November now, I think I’m allowed to write my Christmas list! Here are a few of the items I’m currently obsessing […]
Coping With Christmas as a Crafter
Something happens to us crafters when October rolls around again. We see the Christmas things on the shelves in the supermarket; we see the people complaining on social media that “Christmas starts earlier every year” and our own personal panic sets in. We have to start our Christmas planning. The first year you gave a […]
Public Service Announcement: £4 Yarn Bowls!
I must confess, I don’t really have enough for a full post here but I just have to share! I’ve been after a yarn bowl for absolutely ages. I first saw them at Unravel last year – these magical bowls stop your yarn from dancing around the room while you’re busy working with it. The […]
Let’s Talk About Socks, Baby
Let’s just take a second to appreciate my terrible pun in the title. Sorry to subject you to that. I recently posted about my forays into the world of sock knitting – and I was so excited to post about conquering my biggest crafting fear, that I hadn’t even finished my first pair! You’ve guessed […]
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 […]
Facing a Crafting Fear
I mentioned in my post about crojo that one of my tried and tested ways of getting back into the swing of crochet after a temporary loss of interest is to try a different craft. The thing about trying out new crafts is that sometimes it can be a bit scary! I know what I’m doing […]
The Great London Yarn Crawl 2016
Oh. My. Goodness. I think the Great London Yarn Crawl might be the best way to spend a day in the world ever? I was expecting the yarn crawl to be good – I mean, it’s a day touring the craft shops of London, so it was always going to be fun. But in the end, […]
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