What with it being summer holidays ‘n all, I took a day off work and some flexi and we had two museum trips this week – we’re all cultured out! They were two very different trips, the first to a traditional small market town museum which was free and had two trails for the kids [...]

I have some new additions to list in my etsy shop over the next couple of days and here’s a sneak preview: First up, we have a beautifully, soft cashmere/silk which I have named Pitter Patter for obvious reasons: Next up is another pastel colourway, this time in the long-promised cashmerino which is so soft [...]

Woo hoo! Just checked out the antsy rating on Ravelry and it did take my original registration. I know this is only relevant and fascinating to me, but thought I’d post it anyway: Found you! You signed up on June 12, 2007 You are #8361 on the list. 1667 people are ahead of you in [...]

This is what I’ve been up to this week. I got myself onto Flickr at last. Here’s my Flickr page. Sure there must be some way of creating a mini link but will get to that some time. So far have joined 4 groups – Yarn Porn, For the Love of Fiber, Hand Dyed and [...]

A4 through Thatcham Blogged with Flock

Phew – that was close. The water came up to the sill on the front door and sort of up the toilet, but we were a lot luckier than the many in our town now spending the night over at the community centre. I was in at the office party over in Reading oblivious to [...]

Oh poo, poo, poo! Thought I’d signed up to this new site weeks ago but just checked the “antsy” list and neither of my email addresses were on it. I must’ve imagined signing up – doh! Especially after I smugly told Skein King yesterday, who thought he’d found something new, that I was one of [...]

Just about recovered from wild weekend – should not be happening at my age. My lovely Moo cards arrived today – 100 of them. Now I can feel like a proper crafty businessy-type person. Photos to follow in next post. One of the one-skein socks is coming on – nearly finished. Though it will be [...]

Very exciting week in the world of the Skein Queen for two reasons. Firstly, first wholesale order from China arrived: Lovely cashmere/silk, some cashmerino and a lovely soft worsted blend of lambs wool, dehaired angora and cashmere. Gorgeous! Look and drool! Just as well I placed that order, as they day before it arrived, I [...]

To support my etsy site, and for a bit of fun, I thought I’d have a go at adapting a Carosel socks pattern by Violet Green into ankle socks and see if they would knit up with one of my 55g skeins. So I reserved one of my Cupid’s Breath solid shade of pink for [...]