If you didn’t book yet, the first date is full so I have added a new date, Sunday March 2020. Hats are FUN! Hats are FAST! Hats are easy to transport, great for travel knitting, brilliant gifts...

The August Newsletter has just gone out.  If you didn’t get it but want it, please let me know.  There is news on the workshop topics I am thinking of for 2020, plus 2 WIP Days in 2020 are...

Not, I am afraid, as interesting as that title might suggest.  Sorry, as ever, to disappoint. But I do have another life, beyond, or maybe beside knitting. Before I came to knitting, my child, I had...

Again with the blogging fail.  I see it is the last day of July so I am blogging today (instead of say, next week) so I do not miss a month.  The old blog archives from 2010 onward disappeared when...

A few extracts from my (fictional) diary – the content is real, I just don’t really write it down.  The time-scale is huge. Here is Rupert, dozing in the rare sunshine, this summer: 2nd...

Hi there, world. I used to be Little Miss Blog-Alot.  Now I don’t, so much.  Why, Ali? Well, I see site traffic so I know people visit me, but the blog is very quiet and it seems a bit...

I keep an annual list of the films I watch.  2019 is up to 66 already.  So I only share a tiny percentage here.  You’re welcome. This episode of ‘What Have You Watched, Ali?’...

This year, for the first time, we held a WIP amnesty day.  Instead of the usual 7 or 8 attendees, we had 14 knitters here and so we used both downstairs rooms.  The concept was:  bring a WIP or...

No cinema films other than one late screening of a release that is about 2 years old.  I saw Puzzle as it was an ‘if you missed this first time round’ screening at Scotts.  But you can...

I am slowly adding products to the website. I have started with Pom-Poms, a chunky, subtly sparkly hat (or scarf) yarn, called Lady Lame (pronounced laa-may, not lame), and a lovely, soft 100% pure...