FO Friday: Fluff It sweater
It’s finished in time for Finished Object Friday! Pattern: Fluff It by @doraexplored Yarn: Lowther Lace - hand dyed baby alpaca/silk; 3 x 50g skeins each of two coloursHook: 8mm, yarn held doubleSize: Large, with extra rounds added to the hemMods: Added a row of double crochet around the neck edge, embroidered along the top sleeve/shoulder seams, lengthened body.I’m sooooo chuffed with this! It is light, cosy, cuddly, and breathable. 😍😍😍 I chose this project because I had a hankering to crochet a fluffy boxy sweater, and when I saw this pattern by Dora Does pop up it instantly called...
New Milburn 4ply™️/DK™️ colourway reveal: Buttermilk
New Milburn 4ply/DK colourway reveal: Buttermilk It’s late June 2026 and we’ve just had a particularly mega heatwave, so what better time to release a brand new colourway of Milburn 4ply™️ and Milburn DK™️?! The timing wasn’t deliberate - I had to wait to run out (or almost) of one of the two discontinued colours before replacing it with a new one, and the turnaround time on these yarns is approximately 10-12 weeks, so I have to accept that it just arrives whenever it arrives. In an ideal world I’d get samples and knit and crochet things up with them...
Fuzzy Ribbed Scarf knitting pattern
It’s just a basic fuzzy scarf, but it’s very satisfying to make and deliciously cosy to wear. The shops are always full of cosy fuzzy scarves over winter and for all my years of knitting and crochet I’ve never actually made one, so here we go. The fabric ideally wanted to be symmetrical, and I really fancied making it sparkly as well as fuzzy. This also presented a good opportunity to see how much scarf I could get out of one skein of 4ply (400m) whilst making it just wide enough to be cosy but not so wide that I’d...
Why we prefer PayPal payments these days..
I offer lots of different payment options on the website and I know that these days most of us have our cards saved to our devices so we're generally using card payments. But.. I do still also offer PayPal, and if you use PayPal to pay me the money comes straight through to me, so this is a little request that if you're still using PayPal and you don't mind using it, that would actually be helpful for this small business of mine. Why? Because card payments are held by Shopify (my webhost - one that's widely used these days)...
How do hand dyed yarn updates work?
You may have seen me write things like ‘Pendle Sport is now updated’ or ‘shop update happening’ and wondered what this means.. Hand dyed yarn comes in small batches as it is dyed by me in my garden shed here in Yorkshire. This is what is so unique about it; but it does mean that batches can be in stock then disappear quite quickly. And once they’re gone they’re gone. So what happens behind the scenes? Well firstly I have to buy the undyed yarn, so I usually buy 5kg+ of each base which splits nicely into ten batches of...