Halloween Dress Part 1: Raiders of the lost charity shop

So my dear first born likes to set me challenges. She doesn't see them as challenges she just sees them as simple requests to her mum. Her latest challenge started something like this. Girl Child: Mummy you know how you says it's better to make something than to buy it? Me: Yes...... Girl Child: Great…

Oh for overlooks sake!

So I've been having a pretty bad flare up the last couple of weeks with the change in weather to autumn. And this week I've had the worst flare up yet. So to cheer myself up I decided to teach myself something. Pain leads to grumpiness, grumpiness leads to anger and as we all know…

WIP Wednesday – Wool three ways

So Wednesday and I have three WIP's and a finished. And somehow they are all different ways to work wool. I used to think wool was a horrible boring thing. I used to look at knitted things and shudder. Then along came girl child and her grand mothers both knitted her things and I fell…

WIP Wednesday – it’s not what it currently looks like.

Well I haven't done one of these for a while. Kind of missed weekly updates but for a while weeks just bled into one another. So this week I is mostly knitting and felting (apologies for obscure British comedy references). So after my happy trip to a LYS and my mojo coming back I actually…

Picking up the sticks.

So since the flare up of my neck back in February I've lost a lot of the impulsion to knit. I've recently started to crochet again and it's great but I miss knitting. It's not like I haven't got unfinished projects, (What sort of knitter Doesn't have unfinished projects.) I just haven't had the 'spark'…

Always the last minute

So it's nearly that time again when parents all across the UK breath a sigh of relief as the summer holidays come to an end. I have loved the time with girl child, we have done some things, been places and done what she wanted to do, learn history. Let me explain now that girl…