The days seemed long this weekend. That doesn’t often happen. For once there was little planned – one airport pickup, one long early morning run, dinner out with my husband, a walk across the field to the farm to buy salad and eggs, but otherwise a blank diary, an unstructured weekend. It felt strange. The [...]

Today is a glorious lazy spring day. My mother will arrive from England this afternoon. Thankfully the planes are flying normally again – although we did enjoy the quiet when they weren’t. It’s nice not to have any ‘will she, won’t she’ stress about her arrival, although there is bound to be a little stress [...]

Last night and today I’ve been pressing on with the Retro Ribbed Turtleneck (from the Green Mountain Spinnery) using the Sylvan Spirit yarn – does it look familiar? Such a nice yarn to knit with and I just love the colour. The jury is out on the pattern – it’s a very different style for [...]

I’ve had such fun working on the Winter White schnibble pattern from Miss Rosie’s Quilt Co over the last couple of days. It includes a clever way of making the flying geese and was really a super-quick easy project which went together easily. Now it just needs the outer border and it will be done. [...]

Today I had one of those days where life got in the way of creativity. When I finally did get a little time to myself to get started on the next quilting project, well wouldn’t you know, I was spoilt for choice and just couldn’t make up my mind…. I have got as far as [...]