Knitting Now and Then

I haven't written anything here for weeks - apologies.  We were on holiday for most of May, first in Romania, then, after a few days bac...

Yesterday, we went to Waitrose in Sheffield to get most of our Christmas food shopping, and I saw some coffee mugs with an embossed design t...

There is a knitting tour of England & Wales in progress right now, under the auspices of Vogue Knitting magazine,  that started Tuesday ...

I spent the weekend in Derby, at the Knitting & Crochet Guild Convention.  It was a busy weekend, and I didn't have time to set foot...

For the last couple of weeks, Sainsbury's supermarket has been selling "carving pumpkins" for Hallowe'en  - not with th...

Yesterday, a large box arrived through the post from the U.S.,  with our Christmas cards and gifts from our daughter and her girlfriend.  ...

Back in March, I wrote about a visit to Todmorden , when we had coffee and cake at the whole-food cafe in the former Co-op, and I had a de...

A friend read that I recently bought a 1934 copy of Stitchcraft magazine , and sent me a Stitchcraft from December 1940 that she found am...

We don't often eat cake, so we don't often bake cakes. But we had some bananas lurking in the kitchen that had got a long way past t...

This has been a very good year for fruit of all kinds.  We have just one apple tree, which was already mature when we moved here 20 years ag...