Hair grips, yarn, and crochet: a couple of useful tips!

Posted: October 17, 2017

Hair grips, yarn, and crochet: a couple of useful tips!

Did you know that hair grips make great crochet stitch holders/stitch markers?? Obviously they can come off, but I've been stuffing my project in my project bag with hair grips marking stitches and holding the live stitch, and it's been fine.  They're also brilliant for keeping your yarn from unwinding! What great #crochethacks or #knittinghacks do you have?


Knitting should never involve being judgemental. Also, a Ravelry-use tutorial.

Posted: October 04, 2017

Knitting should never involve being judgemental. Also, a Ravelry-use tutorial.

As many of you know, photographing yarn colour combinations is one of my long-standing and favourite things to do; I love sharing them with you all. And it's very rare for us to be doing the trendy thing, or latest thing, BUT don't you think the #whatthefade KAL is the PERFECT thing for us to get on board with??! Well we do, and so we will have another range of #wtfkal kits in tonight's update. Hooray! Most of them are one-offs, so they are pretty special. These ones have been picked out by Laura, with Claire and I (Victoria) oohing...


Tips for Visiting Shows

Posted: March 11, 2016

Tips for Visiting Shows

After years of visiting shows as a customer and vendor, and contributing to other peoples' show advice guides, I thought it might finally be time to compile my own. If you have any to add, please leave a comment below. Shows are brilliant.. they can be incredibly inspiring and fun, but they can also be overwhelming, exhausting, and confusing. Hopefully these tips will help you get the best out of your trip. Set off early: Look up your route and how long it's going to take. Add extra time for the potential queue getting into the carpark and getting into...


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