New Year, Same Me

I kind of hate resolutions. Especially the ones that say to do something different. New year new you. Those never work for me but I do like seeing goals. Things I want to achieve which are normally a continuation of what I'm already doing. I guess my biggest struggle is to keep doing things not start (anyone who knows me know I start too many things!!). And goals help to keep me motivated and not give in.

Crochet Blankets Galore

Okay so, galore may be over stating things a bit. Two. There are two crochet blankets in this post. Neither of which is technically finished. But it has ignited my love for crochet blankets and there are easily another three blankets that I now want to make. But I'll save that post for a very…

New Yarn, New Project

My yarn stash finally got depleted enough to defend buying more. I only had 3 balls of yarn left. And yes, okay mum, I did give a lot of it away when we moved but it was yarn I was never going to use again left over from four years ago when I had to…

The Five Year Shawl

I'm moving next month back to London after our three year temporary move to Guernsey. Which means I've started looking through and deciding on all the things to pack and what to throw away. Obviously, I started with my yarn stash (because that's the most important thing, right?) Looking through my stash was a little…

The Saga of the Perfect Scarf

Many a year ago I bought some very expensive yarn to make two scarfs. They were Rowan aran Pure Wool in Red & yellow and green & grey (or Gryffindor and Slytherin colours). And if I can remember correctly they were about £8 for each 100g ball. By far the most expensive yarn I've ever…

Linen Stitch Scarf FO

I finished my linen stitch crochet scarf and thanks to all your helpful comments it is now long enough. And, if I do say so myself, rather pretty. I went with the colour most of you suggested, although I think its a bit different than it showed up in the picture I had taken but…

Crochet Update

I've made lots of progress on the crochet scarf that I showed you all when I first started a week or two ago. The good news is that I'm really loving the way this yarn is stitching up in linen stitch. Definitely my new favourite stitch (yes, okay, I know I say that whenever I…

Pre-Holiday Haul

There's nothing like a holiday to burn a hole in my bank account and I'm not even talking about the actual holiday or the travel insurance that I had to renew. It's all those little things you have to buy in. Some of them are boring holiday stuff like suntan lotion but I'm going to…

Christmassy Crochet – Wrist Warmers

I bought some lovely new yarn last week. I felt like I deserved it and, after years of trying to work through my stash, I think my will power is finally dying. In my defence I needed some 4 ply yarn for the thing I wanted to make and I didn't have any of that.…

Knitting … or Not

You know those times when you've just got so much going on and you're spreading yourself a bit thin because you don't have enough time to spend on all the projects you have on the go and you think you should probably stop doing something or at least do something less because you just can't…