Making handmade gifts for friends and family at Christmas is a lovely thing to do, but how do you go about it without driving yourself insane? One option is to start early. I know people who like to start on Christmas at the end of the summer, whether they are making gifts…
One of my favourite Christmas tasks is unpacking all the decorations. I have memories of doing this as a little girl, when my dad would bring the box down from the loft. The tree (always a real one) would be in the front room and we would remove…
The other week I decided that I needed a new lamp. Specifically it was a lamp for the playroom. So I got myself on Ebay and I found some beautiful blue and white lamps with china bases.. I totally fell in love with them! I They were obviously old…
Over the next few weeks I’ll be publishing a series of posts aimed at absolute crochet beginners. I  post crochet projects quite often but it occurred to me that there might be people who would like to know how to crochet a treble before being told crochet a…
A couple of years ago I adopted the American practice of hanging a wreath on my door. The main reason was because I didn’t like how naked my door looked after I took the Christmas wreath down! This tied wreath is very easy to make and is a…
Last time I posted, I wrote about crocheting cables. You can read about that here! I was so happy that I’d figured out how to crochet cables I had to make something! Having the attention span of a gnat, it needed to be something small and quick. So I…