As you know, all of the yarns in our range are named after women. To begin with, I picked names that I thought sounded Posh (lots of them from Georgette Heyer novels!), some of the earlier ones were Cordelia, Lucia, Seraphina, Henrietta. But as our range has swelled (I think we’ve had over 100 different yarns at […]

Can you believe it’s nearly October already?! This is the penultimate sock club shipment - how fast that year went! The yarn went out in today’s mail, so it should be with members very soon. This time we used my current favourite sock yarn, Elinor, a tightly spun superwash merino, which has 400 yards per […]

You remember the Aran sweater I’m designing and knitting for Tony? Well, I finished the first sleeve last week. The design came out perfectly, I was thrilled with it. And when I showed Tony, he actually got excited, and said, “is that for me?? I love it!!” Which, as you can imagine, made me very, […]

As you may know, we’re off to the South of France for a week on May 13th. That’s just over a week, woohoo!!! I have been busy shopping for a suitably chic holiday wardrobe, and since it’s been a while since I did a fashion blog, I thought this might be a fun one to do. This […]

I recently discovered the website Mindapples. The idea behind it is that, just as for physical health and wellbeing we are encouraged to eat a minimum of five portions of fruit and veg a day, we should try to incorporate five activities into our day that encourages good mental health and wellbeing. What a wonderfully simple, but effective, […]