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A Creative New Year
What are you hoping 2023 will hold for you? What are you planning to do more of...or less of? Join me in making 2023 a creative year one project at a time.
Keeping a Knitting and Stitching Notebook
Have a peek inside my knitting and stitching notebook and find out why and how I keep it.
A Quilt Show and Yarn Update
It's approaching Christmas and Under An English Sky Yarns has some fantastic new festive colourways to choose from. Read about my visit to the Birmingham quilt festival and get a peek at the festive yarns that are in the shop.
Weekending and Giveaway Winners
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...
Latest Shop Update & Giveaway
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...