Hello Lovely Crocheters - Emma Here! It’s Halloween next week and I for one am beside myself with excitement! I don’t know whether Halloween is a truly Marmite thing (you either love it or hate it), but if it is then I am firmly in the former camp. That is why my postman backed away from me down the path earlier this week when I answered the door in full pirate garb. I admit it might have been a bit of a surprise but I was trying it all on in readiness for the annual excuse to dress up with the kids! (Incidentally, he was delivering a “never worn, unisex tri-corn hat £6.50” from Vinted) I’ve always loved Halloween. My sister and I first attempted to carve a pumpkin more than 40 years ago (and that’s made me feel a bit like I need to breathe into a paper bag). The thing to understand here is that here in the UK we didn’t really DO Halloween then. Certainly not like we do now anyway and there was not much access to pumpkins as far as I can recall. So we did what we could: diligently taking turns to chip away at the inside of a turnip! Turnips were cheap, readily available and wholly unfit for purpose, boasting an inside hard enough to use as a house brick. I’m not sure our forearms have ever been the same really. These days we have access to all the Halloween things over here in the UK and while we might not be quite as into it as the US, it’s interesting to know that it’s a tradition that actually began here: in ancient Britain and Ireland as the festival of Samhain, a pagan religious celebration that marked the end of summer and the beginning of winter. The Celts celebrated Samhain on November 1, which marked the beginning of their new year and the dark, cold winter. The Celts believed that on the night of Samhain, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. During Samhain, people would light bonfires, wear costumes, and sometimes carve faces into turnips* to ward off evil spirits. They also believed that the period was favourable for divination. *YES TURNIPS! I genuinely did not know that until this exact moment and so I feel a sense of connection with my ancestors knowing that we – by pure coincidence – continued an ancient tradition! (wonder if they got cramps in their forearms too?) While on this subject, can we just have a moment to say that there is SO MUCH you can do with the carved-out bits of a pumpkin. We found this brilliant blog post which is full of lovely recipes. You could also use – just like Jane’s Dad – the seeds to grow your own for another year. We love this little story Jane shared about her Dad's home grown pumpkins: “When my kids were young, my Dad would carve their names into the flesh when the little pumpkins were only just forming so that they had scarred names in as they grew – it was REALLY cool and he told the kids the fairies had done it!” Can we talk about decorating because really that’s my second favourite part. My first favourite part is buying all the sweets for the trick or treaters, eating them, and then buying them all again! There are LOADS of gorgeous Halloween crochet projects out there and still time to make them if you fancy a little seasonal side-hustle from your current big make! Let’s start here, with a Janie Crow adapted project. We used a traditional Halloween pallet and re-made some of the beaded decorations. Honestly it was a little bit addictive! Adding some black and white baker’s twine really Tim Burton-ed them up and we can now use them on garlands, twig trees or wreaths, depending on where we need to add a bit of classy sparkle! You can find the pattern here.
We REALLY love this cobweb bunting and again, it’s a free pattern which is wonderfully generous. It’s made by Delia creates and there is a full tutorial for you which is fantastic as it’s a really good beginner-friendly project and one that children might like to try. You can find it here
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I had a fabulous time on the Stylecraft stand at The Knitting & Stitching Show at London's Ally Pally last week. The show was really busy and it was amazing to meet so many of you, see pics of your projects, take selfies and chat about all things crochet. Thank you so much to all of you who took the time to come and say hello. I received a lot of comments about the Spirit of Flora project at the show and it was really good to hear so much positivity around it, especially as it is aimed at quite a high skill level. I love it when you tell me that you have learnt lots and built on your crochet skills by working through one of my projects. It still amazes me how much love there is out there for all my older projects too - Mystical Lanterns and Persian Tiles are still holding their own very nicely! We continue to struggle to keep a healthy number of kits in stock, so please bear with us if the item you want is showing as out of stock. Our kit sales have almost tripled over the last couple of years and demand for yarn is still really high globally, so our low stock levels are not through lack of trying! We have a lot more designs to cover than we used to and can't always predict which projects you guys will be looking at from week to week. We will endeavour to have healthier stock over the next couple of weeks now that our shows are out of the way for the autumn, but if there is a particular item you are waiting for please fill in the 'notify me' link so that we know what you are looking for and so that you will get an instant notification once stock is back. Patterns are still in good demand and this week Andy has added an option to purchase the complete set of Spirit of Flora paper pattern brochures to the website. The full set, which includes 12 motif patterns and the Getting Ready document, is available for £29.95 from the website here. I was tagged into the image above on Instagram recently by Sanne at Chaicrafts who made the most amazing version of the Spirit of Flora blanket and gifted it to her sister as a wedding present - isn't it just beautiful! It is always a frustration when yarns get discontinued and it means we can no longer make up yarn kits to accompany my designs. Keeping on top of discontinued shades and ranges can be really time consuming, so sometimes we make the decision to drop some of our kits. This week however, I have some good news in regards to my Summer Palace Wrap design as Baa Ram Ewe have reinstated their lovely yarn Pip Colourwork 4 ply, which means we now have kits back in stock! All shades used in the original design are back in the Baa Ram Ewe range except for two of them, which we have substituted with the closest possible alternative. My lovely crocheter Jenna is making up a sample using a very dark brown as the background shade and a slightly different blue on the border. The original background shade had a tiny hint of green and the blue used for the edging was very slightly lighter, but I honestly think the outcome will be almost indistinguishable from the photos shown here. We have just eight kits in stock to see how they go and you can find them for sale at £87.50 each by following this link. Colourwork Pip is made from !00% British Wool. It smells divine and the colours are fab, but if you are looking for something a little softer you could always purchase the pattern and make one using your choice of yarn. We have just received these gorgeous new tape measures which feature two motifs (one either side) from the Spirit of Flora project. The Sunflower motif is on one side and the Evelyn motif is on the other. The tape measures are £7.50 each and you can find them here. Here at Janie Crow we have been struggling to keep a BIG yarny secret! None of us have let the cat out of the bag, and we didn't squeal under pressure over the last few days, but it is still a huge relief to finally be able to tell you this exciting news: STYLECRAFT SPECIAL DK IS COMING HOME! Spa Mill, the home of Stylecraft Yarns in the heart of West Yorkshire, has been home to spinning for well over one hundred years and it is so incredibly exciting to see them bringing state of the art technology back home to Yorkshire to produce their yarns in the UK. The investment at Spa Mill includes a new dye house for acrylic and wool and new drying machinery for both. There are other new machines that are used to 'stretch break' the acrylic and 're-break' it, as well as a standard drawing line, a new assembly line, new twisting machines and a completely new balling plant. A combined heat and power plant, which produces electricity more efficiently than a normal gas fired power station and reuses the heat from the exhaust gases in the dye house, has also been invested in. The plant is also already hydrogen ready so it can move away from the use of natural gas in time. These major advances mean that Stylecraft can be more efficient with resources, using less water and energy and so reducing their carbon footprint. By manufacturing in Yorkshire, they are also reducing transport distances, cutting both fuel consumption and pollution. The new yarn range officially launched yesterday and you can find some teasers on our Instagram feed. The yarns will be in stock with stockists from today and, if you want more info, you can find my blog post here. As life has been really busy over the last few weeks Andy has been pretty much in charge of our evening meals. He found a great recipe for home made veggie sausages, which you can find here. They are made using tofu and kidney beans and are wrapped in rice paper, so there is very little fat in them. They're really quick to make, super tasty and the recipe makes lots of sausages - I think Andy made sixteen! The JC team had a chat about quick meals this week and Gemma sent me a link for what looks like a really tasty pie, which uses leeks and mushrooms. I think this will definitely go on the list of meals for next week. It's defiantly the time of year for pie and the open top style, made using ready made puff pastry are always great! You can find the recipe here. With the colder weather this week I had a real fancy for soup and made one using mushrooms and cauliflower. I roasted the cauliflower in the air fryer to save a bit of time, but if you're super organised you could prepare it ahead of time by popping it in the oven when you're cooking something else. This is a really easy recipe and it makes a lovely creamy low calorie soup - you can find a similar recipe to the one I used on the Vegetarian Gastronomy website here. Gemma's book of the month recommendation is not so much escapism as a busman's holiday as, ever keen to improve her knitting skills, she recommends Patty Lyons' Knitting Bag of Tricks: The Official Workbook. Gemma says: Patty Lyons’ Knitting Bag of Tricks was published in 2022 and has been a much-consulted book on my craft books shelf for the last year or so. It’s a reference book containing many tutorials on ways to improve your knitting, and the Official Workbook has been written to be used in conjunction with the original publication. Each lesson in the workbook corresponds to a chapter of the original book and leads you through a series of exercises to practice the tips and tricks contained in it. As the reader you are invited to make a series of swatches and then make ‘swatchservations’ about your knitting, helped by prompt questions to guide you. There are spaces to stick photos and add stickers from the numerous fabulous sticker sheets further along in the workbook. There are lots of illustrations throughout the book, by the designer, teacher, illustrator and author Franklin Habit, and I love how he represents stitches using characters such as dancers and acrobats. This is a fantastic book if you are the kind of knitter who likes to really understand your knitting and are a bit fussy about the finer detail. It teaches you to look at your work in a different light and think about alternative ways of doing things to achieve a more refined finish. Also, any book that comes with sticker sheets is a winner as far as I'm concerned! Gemma x It has been menopause awareness month and today (October 18th) is Menopause Awareness day! All members of the Janie Crow team (except Andy obvs!) are at various stages of our perimenopause and menopause journey and so Emma has written a great piece about it. You can find it on the blog here. I am so thankful to live at a time when we talk about menopause and can access help if we need it. It is no longer a taboo subject and there is so much research going on. I listened to this podcast on the Zoe platform on YouTube yesterday and I found it quite interesting to hear about the things we can do to help ourselves, such as making better decisions with food and getting more exercise. I am looking forward to a weekend at home after being at the show last weekend. As we head into colder evenings and shorter days I want to make the house a little more winter ready and get the last remnants of the summer put away until next year. The summer house at the end of the garden tends to be used as a bit of a dumping ground for stuff we are not quite sure what to do with, so I am going to have a clear up in here too.
Charlie and his girlfriend Ellie carved out their pumpkins ready for Halloween yesterday evening, so they are out on the door step already! Quite a few of the local houses have decorated early, so we are not alone in our spooky preparations! I haven't been home over the weekend for a couple of weeks, so I am really looking forward to being here for a couple of days. I have some yarn lined up on the window sill which I am itching to use, so hopefully I will get to do a bit of crochet over the weekend, especially if the weather stays this dingy! I hope you all have a lovely weekend Janie x Here at Janie Crow we have been struggling to keep a BIG yarny secret! None of us have let the cat out of the bag, and we didn't squeal under pressure over the last few days, but it is still a huge relief to finally be able to tell you this exciting news: STYLECRAFT SPECIAL DK IS COMING HOME! Spa Mill, the home of Stylecraft Yarns in the heart of West Yorkshire, has been home to spinning for well over one hundred years and it is so incredibly exciting to see them bringing state of the art technology back home to Yorkshire to produce their yarns in the UK. The investment at Spa Mill includes a new dye house for acrylic and wool and new drying machinery for both. There are other new machines that are used to 'stretch break' the acrylic and 're-break' it, as well as a standard drawing line, a new assembly line, new twisting machines and a completely new balling plant. A combined heat and power plant, which produces electricity more efficiently than a normal gas fired power station and reuses the heat from the exhaust gases in the dye house, has also been invested in. The plant is also already hydrogen ready so it can move away from the use of natural gas in time. These major advances mean that Stylecraft can be more efficient with resources, using less water and energy and so reducing their carbon footprint. By manufacturing in Yorkshire, they are also reducing transport distances, cutting both fuel consumption and pollution. The new home-made Special DK yarn is exactly as it has always been (although I think it might be even softer and squishier), with the weight and meterage the same as in the past. The really exciting thing for me is that the new yarns come in 20 extra shades that will join the existing range of 100 colours. I am already totally in love with Mistletoe, Purple Smoke, Pink Rhubarb and North Sea - they are just sooo good!! Spectrum Yarns, the parent company of Stylecraft, have been producing worsted yarns for sports apparel (think golf sweaters and tank tops) for many years, so Spa Mill is already producing tons of yarn every year - a great thing given that so much of the UK's textile industry has gone abroad over the last few decades. Bringing the production of Special DK to the UK means that Stylecraft are the only acrylic manufacturer in Western Europe and they have taken a really big step by investing in British Industry. Andy and I were lucky enough to visit the mill a few weeks ago to see the production of the new Special DK colours in full flow and you can find some of my pics of the production line below. Doesn't that pink yarn look like candy floss? Or maybe a pink Mr Whippy ice cream? Yummy either way! The twenty shades in the new Special DK collection have been chosen by Creative Director Annabelle Hill and the Stylecraft design team, as well as Lucy at Attic 24 who has a great eye for colour. The team looked at emails from consumers who recommended the type of shades they would like to see and then a final set of twenty were cherry picked from a broad range of one hundred shades. I love the fact that lots of the colours have names that link to Yorkshire, such as Mushy Peas and Pink Rhubarb, a name especially affiliated with the county as Yorkshire is famous for the quality of its rhubarb and back in its heyday there were 200 producers in the area! Seeing the yarns in production was really interesting and I LOVED watching the really cleaver splicing machines that fix broken threads and the machines that slide the ball bands onto the balls of yarn - it was pretty mesmerising and I adored being surrounded by all that yarn and colour! Above you can see Poppy and below is Aquamarine - aren't they lovely! Stylecraft hope that this new line of home-made yarn will pave the way for them to produce more yarns here in the UK and I would love to see some of the yarns with wool content coming through, such as my favourite Life DK. As a designer I find choosing the yarns for a project is a bit of a juggling act. I want to source lovely colours that work in my designs (something that a huge palette like that of Special DK lends itself to brilliantly), whilst also considering the cost to my customers and the impact of it from an environmental perspective. I see my projects as heirloom pieces and hope that home-made items such as my blankets will passed down through the generations. I hope that my choices do not align with those of fast fashion brands or throw away society and I am relieved to see that there has been a shift in perspective amongst the yarn buying community over the last few years, with more knitters and crocheters considering the environmental impact of their choices. Yarns like the UK produced Special DK are a big step in the right direction towards a more environmentally conscious yarn industry with lower transport costs, less waste and cleaner production at the heart of its production. I have already started to use some of the new shades in the projects I am currently working on and I am looking forward to showing you what I come up with soon. If you want to get in on the act and source yourself some of the new yarns you will find the new range of Special DK colours in stock at your favourite yarn store from Friday 18th October. You can find stockists worldwide by following this link to the Stylecraft website and clicking on the map.
I hope you will love it as much as I do! October is Menopause awareness month in the UK. Some of us here at Janie Crow are more than aware of menopause, every month! Whether that’s the unseasonable heat we carry within us, the obvious spikes and dips of hormones or a months-absent menstrual cycle roaring back into life with no warning. Yes, menopause makes itself very much known around here. There is now, thankfully, much more information available to us and it is a subject which is now openly and frequently discussed and this can only be a good thing. We are not about to even dip our toe into the myriad of science papers and opinions and remedies and any of that, believing firmly that everyone is unique and will choose the path that works best for them to navigate this astonishingly complex time in our lives. There are podcasts and books and TV shows and all sorts and we could spend a month listing resources here but we won’t. This post really is to let you know that “women of a certain age” (and we don’t know whether to love that gentle description or be outraged by it’s patronising tone – hormones again) make up a large and much-loved part of the Janie Crow community and are also well represented in the company itself! There are dozens of recognised menopause symptoms ranging from the ones we all know (THE HEAT, OH THE HEAT!) to the less frequently recognised things like anxiety and brain fog. There are some things we think crochet can do to help. We are NOT of course suggesting that it is appropriate to not seek specialist medical opinion in favour of picking up a hook, not at all, but let’s look at some of the things we know it brings us: PEACE OF MIND We’ve said it so many times but sitting quietly and mindfully with hook and yarn is a tonic for so many things: a busy mind, anxious thoughts, low mood. All these things can be eased, even if only a little, by the repetitive action of making those familiar movements to create stitches. REGULAR SELF-CARE Taking time out of a busy schedule for yourself is essential. Very often, at this time of life, we still have children at home that we have to look after and also, we are starting to take on more of the “parent” role to our own parents. We have the responsibilities both up and down the generations. It is a lot. I speak from experience and my advice here would always be this: if help is offered, take it. In whatever form that may be. TAKE THE HELP! Offer of a babysitter to have a few hours to yourself, yep. Offer of someone else making the trip to the supermarket for the parents, yes please. It is not a failing to put your own oxygen mask on first. Remember that if you’re the hub of things, your falling down helps no one. I am sorry to lecture but I’ve been there, done that and not been able to wear the t-shirt because I found it too hot. Sorry I digress… Crochet is a brilliantly portable hobby. Waiting rooms, waiting in cars, swimming lessons and all those things are a good place to sit and just connect a bit with your own brain for your own – seemingly trivial – reasons. There is nothing at all better for you than doing something which benefits no one at all except you! It’s the best tonic. Knocking up a granny square might seem ridiculous to some but to us who know what the feeling of hook and yarn does to a stressed head, it’s not ridiculous at all. Use your skill in a way you’d perhaps not considered: as a means to bring yourself back to you. HOW TO COMBAT THE HEAT Well yes, its unavoidable really but a lot of us make blankets don’t we? Many of us (me) would actually love to need to sit under a blanket. We still make them. So what does that tell us? It’s not the end result, it is the action itself we crave. If however you would like to still make something you could use, consider working with cotton or bamboo, both of which are lovely if you get hot handling yarn. Make smaller projects – bags or pouches or decorations. You have our fullest permission to have a smaller thing on the go as well as a bigger thing. The difference in size means it doesn’t really count as not finishing one thing before starting another (that’s just science, we don’t make the rules). You can find a selection of smaller projects by Janie here : Again, having a bag of something small and fun in the car (no, not chocolates although this does also work and definitely NOT gin miniatures) is such a good way to remind you that you are YOU. Your pass times and hobbies and self care matters. Have you ever just driven somewhere to be alone and have 5 mins thinking time? I have. I would have loved to have a bit of crochet to focus me when I sat in the car park at Asda but I was too muddle headed to sort it!
Also, (and I genuinely forgot what I was going to write here) writing out parts of the instructions yourself, in your own words and maybe chunked up so that there is a small part on each line of a piece of paper, might help. Smaller sections of a larger row or round are the menopausal woman’s friend. Tick them off. Really treat yourself! Finally, although it’s been a huge challenge to me as it is to many, menopause has also quite unexpectedly been a way of reaffirming the beauty and companionship of womanhood. I have navigated some huge life changes while also grappling hormones: bereavement, caring for elderly parents, divorce and subsequent single motherhood. Throughout all of this, an army of wonderful women have sweated and sworn and laughed and cried with me. The physical changes I’m going through are – to me – worth the richness I’ve been gifted at this time of my life.
So crank the aircon up, go get a sneaky coffee and sit for a few mins in the car park, hooking your way to a bit of calm. We wholeheartedly support you and appreciate all of you. We had a fabulous time at the Yarndale show last weekend and it was so lovely to see so many of you on the stand. It was especially good to hear how many of you enjoy the Janie Crow newsletters and mail outs - I hope you will enjoy this week's Quick Catch Up as I have some things to tell you about. Thanks to varying stock levels at our suppliers and discontinued yarn shades it hasn't been easy keeping all our kits in stock over the last few months, but Andy has been able to do quite a big restock since coming home from the show last weekend. We have quite a healthy stock of the Original Persian Tiles kit as well as the Light Blue one which use Styelcraft yarns - you can find them here. We also have a few Sandalwood kits and the original Persian Tiles in West Yorkshire Spinners yarns. Our yarn packs for my Sunshine and Showers project proved a real hit at Yarndale and Andy has managed to put more of them into stock on the website this week. This project was designed as a learning tool, with each section of the design echoing the changing seasons - the autumnal parts are some of my favourite as I tried to represent falling leaves and pumpkins (made my working crochet bobbles) sitting in the fields waiting to be picked for Halloween! This is perhaps my only project worked in rows, so it is great for getting to grips with basic stitches whilst achieving straight edges! You can find more information here. We have good stock of both the colour ways of the Summer Palace blanket and hope to have kits for the wrap in very soon as Baa Ram Ewe have reinstated their Colourwork Pip yarn range. Two of the shades that I used in the original pattern for the Summer Palace Wrap have been dropped, but I have found a couple of great substitutes and listed them on the website here. After a long absence we have kits in stock for the Indigo Dreams blanket (shown above) and its red companion Crimson Dreams. I think this is a perfect project for the colder months and the Crimson version is particularly festive, so it might be a brilliant autumn make! You can find more information here. And finally - in terms of kits any way - we have yarn packs in stock for the Spirit of Flora CAL. It was brilliant to see so many pics of your projects at Yarndale at the weekend and I was especially chuffed to see that so many of you had raided your stashes and come up with your own lovely versions. We are hoping to have more kits in stock over the next few months, including some of the higher end projects, such as the Magic Circles Wrap using Eden Cottage's range of beautiful wool and silk yarn and the Peppercorn version of Persian Tiles which is made using yarns from the West Yorkshire Spinners range. If you are interested in either of these you can request to go on the 'notify me' list by entering your details on the website pages. Emma has been really busy coming up with a very busy work schedule for the next few months and she has already planned some new technique videos for Youtube. She has some great ideas for autumn projects - so do keep an eye out for those! I am also trying to be ultra organised with my workload and am really looking forward to hunkering down with some crochet as the autumn progresses. At the beginning of September we challenged our followers on Instagram and Facebook to create an Aster motif in a lovely, summery colourway and show us their creations using the hashtag #janiecrowastercompetition. The Aster is the birth flower for the month of September and, being determined to hang on to summer vibes for as long as possible, we were excited to see your entries. As expected, you did us proud with some wonderful colour schemes. Here is just a small selection of entries: As always, it was really hard to choose winners, but that's what we have to do. There were two goody bag prizes available, one for an Instagram entry and one for a Facebook entry. So, here they are! The top photo (below) is from @dani_poppies, our Instagram winner and we particularly liked the combination of colours on this motif, especially the red picot edging to the flower. Our Facebook winner is Caroline Foulkes. We were bowled over by Caroline's choice of colours, in particular the combination of the green and pink, and we loved how she took inspiration from the dahlia arrangement. Those lovely cats look like they approved of it all too! Thank you all so much for taking part in our little September challenge. We hope you enjoyed it and congratulations again to our winners. We will get your prizes sent off to you as soon as possible. It's nice to be back writing about my Bohemian Blooms blanket project again. September has been an incredibly busy month for me with my crochet classes beginning again and a new routine of driving my daughter to college four days a week. From a motivational point of view I decided that I would focus on finishing all the motifs needed to create the central square of the blanket, which could then be joined. There's nothing quite like getting to a joining stage to feel like you're making some progress. So this month was all about the Vanessa production line. I had three more Vanessa motifs to make, in order to have the full set of nine needed for the centre. Do you remember those sewn bullion stitches that I was struggling with last month? Well, I'm pleased to report no trouble this month and I think they could actually become a bit addictive! Before I started the joining process I made sure that all the corner stitches of the motifs were correctly marked with stitch markers and then I joined motifs so that I had three strips of three, leaving two long joins along three motifs at a time to complete the centre panel. Ta dah! The beady-eyed amongst you will notice a few stray ends that need dealing with but that's a mere detail. I'm thrilled to have reached this stage and it will definitely spur me on. It's beginning to look like a blanket! This coming month I am looking forward to working the Unity motifs on to the sides of this central panel and adding the little Omega squares made right back in the beginning to the four corners. Have a fabulous October and I'll see you back here in a month's time. Gemma x Gemma's recipe recommendation this week is for Mushroom & Stilton Wellingtons via the BBC Good Food website. Gemma says that one essential that is always in her fridge is ready made puff pastry, so these were relatively quick and easy to prepare and perfect for a warming family dinner now the nights are a little bit on the cooler side. If you're not a fan of blue cheese I'm sure that could be swapped for something a bit more to your taste - maybe a bit of Boursin would be good? We were fascinated to read about the recent discovery, in an attic, of a crochet blanket made by Queen Mary (the late Queen Elizabeth the Second's mother). Apparently, during the 1930s/40s Queen Mary would occasionally donate these small cot blankets to help London families. You can read more about the blanket and its history here or click on the image below: Knitted Knockers UK are a charity that provides knitted and crocheted breast prostheses for women in the UK who have undergone a mastectomy or lumpectomy and alongside the standard prostheses can even make versions suitable for swimming and other sports. They can also provide display packs for organisations and other health care professionals. What a fantastic organisation. You can read more about the services they provide by clicking here or on the image below. Our poor little house has once again been majority neglected over the last few weeks and so this weekend will be one where we stick pretty close to home. We have quite a few outside projects to do as we need to get the garden furniture packed away and do some autumnal pruning. I think it will also be a weekend of cooking and I am weirdly excited about the prospect of a meal with mashed potato and gravy!! I will be at The Knitting and Stitching Show with the Stylecraft team next week. You will find their stand in the main hall and I will be there all day on Thursday and Saturday and on Friday and Sunday I will be there in the afternoons - it would be great to see you if you are able to come and say Hi! If you are in London and looking for something to do, the 'Outlaws' exhibition opens at The Fashion and Textiles Museum today. The show focuses on the work of Leigh Bowery and you can find more information by following this link. I came across a funny video whilst scrolling through YouTube this week. It is by Foil, Arms and Hog and you can find it here if you fancy a laugh! If you want to see a Friday specific one by the same guys (which is also pretty funny) you can find it here! Sending big yarny hugs.
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