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Comfort shopping
Whenever I’m feeling stressed, run-down or generally just more depressed than usual, one of my coping strategies tends to be to make lots of online craft-related purchases. As the shiny, squashy...
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2012 in clothes
Roobeedoo has made some interesting review-of-the-year posts this week, looking at ready-to-wear clothing purchases and the clothes she’s sewn and knitted, and then reflecting more generally on how her...
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Retail therapy
This week is turning out to be rather difficult for a variety of reasons (though most of them boil down to People). So perhaps it’s not surprising that when I popped into Darn It and Stitch at...
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Purple and orange
It appears that my uniform this spring is a three-quarter-sleeve top, a summer skirt with opaque tights, and a shawl. Well, why not? Shawl – Isaura Top – M&S Skirt – vintage fair Tights – M&S...
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What I did on my holidays
We spent the last week in Cumbria. I finished my Mixalot socks: (I also finished my Bigger on the Inside, though it still needs blocking, and knitted enough of my Lady Heather that it feels as though...
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Yarn crawl
Yesterday I went to London for the Great London Yarn Crawl (kind of like a pub crawl but with yarn shops instead of pubs – far more civilised and much more appropriate for those of us who don’t drink...
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I may be building a yarn fort
Every winter, as the days get shorter and the temperatures drop, I find myself buying more yarn (and now fibre). I think that I’m just trying to surround myself with soft, squishy, brightly coloured...
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Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside
This weekend I headed down to Brighton for Unwind Brighton, a new yarn festival organised by Dani Sunshine of Lioness Arts. I was a little bit wary about this, given that my mental state hasn’t been...
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Great London Yarn Crawl 2014
It’s been a busy couple of weeks; having just got back from holiday, we went to spend a couple of days with my parents in Norfolk and then we’d only just got back from there when we were off again,...
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Double-entry stashkeeping
As I mentioned in my last post, one of my goals for this year is to get the stash under control. I don’t want to give up buying yarn altogether – I still want to be able to support UK indie dyers and...
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