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Giveaway Winners! I have to start with my giveaway winners because it's just too exciting! This afternoon I put all 104 handwritten names on little strips of paper into my sweetest little mixing bowl, stirred it all up and picked out 4 names. Of course I made the announcement on Instagram and by email to all my subscribers. Here's the lovely thing...one of the winners is a long-time blogging friend. We haven't spoken in a very long time and it provided the perfect opportunity for us to quickly catch up on what's been going on in each others lives. Another...

I love dyeing yarn in summer! It dries so quickly which means I can get it up in the shop within a couple of days rather than a week or more. On Friday morning I got the dye pots out in order to restock the shop with two popular colourways, Bracken Woodland and Swallows and Amazons. I had been having a look at my sold out listings the previous day and realised that these colourways had been out of stock for well over a year. Both yarns are now back in stock and listed in the shop. I thought I'd...

I love how this time of year just keeps throwing up seasonal treasures week after week. Often these treasures are fleeting like the bluebells and others last a little longer like the cow parsley that is flooding the verges at the moment.   Not long ago the fields, lawns, verges and country lanes were awash with yellow dandelions. I just love this wildflower although my husband can't stand them as they pop up in the lawn faster than he can cut it. There's a myriad of things that you can do with dandelions, I've made dandelion jam and bread before. ...

Well hello and welcome to Under An English Sky's new website home. Grab your needles and a cuppa and lets have a chat! Some of you will know that I have blogged for the past 11 years on our homeschooling, life in the UK and my creative endeavours on my simple blogspot blog of the same name. I recently shared that I was taking the leap in taking my hobby business of dyeing yarn - which I started as a creative outlet when we were in the thick of homeschooling 6 years ago, and turning it into a real business....