Dear Diary: the Christmas edit
Friday 21st December 2018
Knit Camp week: time, as always before a BIG THING that I have to do, assumes odd dual-personality and both slows down to snail-pace and also speeds up. Note that hours drag, but days fly. Wish I...
Conversations With Lily: The Windsor Half Marathon
Friday 30th November 2018
5.50 am on the morning of the event. Lily and I meet on the landing. Me: morning. Lily: Me: Later, dressed and in the kitchen. Me: porridge or banana or both? Lily: *elaborate urging noise* I...
Winter Trees Fairisle Throw Pattern – now available
Friday 9th November 2018
This is new! Here is the...
Moebiuses Predicted in Totnes This Weekend!
Monday 29th October 2018
I have just heard that there are 2 places now available for my Moebius workshop at Stitchfest Totes, this Sunday, 4th November, 10 – 2. Here is the link. If you have never knitted one of these...
Somerset Woman Concludes Half Marathon Training And Still Has No Idea If She Can Complete Course!
Wednesday 26th September 2018
Snappy headline. I missed my vocation as a sub-editor. I am going to suggest that you chip in a few quid for a very good cause. This is where you donate. Below, is just one story of why. So,...
A Gift for YOU at Gift Knitting Day!
Tuesday 25th September 2018
Gift Knits Day! Anyone who is already booked onto, or who books onto this course in future will get a £5 voucher on arrival, entitling them to £5 off yarns bought on the day! You do not need to...
2019 Workshops are now LIVE!
Monday 24th September 2018
2019 is now live on the site. You can find them all here! There are icord designs, Happy Endings, new felting, gifts and the return of Christmas at Court Cottage. Each day explores new techniques...
Dear Diary + Conversations with Lily
Thursday 20th September 2018
(Some of this was drafted a while ago). Bank Holiday Monday: this is the last day when I will live in the house without one or both of my children also living here. The last time I will peg out and...
WIP Amnesty Day 2019 – 23 March
Wednesday 19th September 2018
Come to the Court Cottage WIP Amnesty event in 2019 and get back in touch with a project that you once loved – or quite liked – but shoved behind the sofa in 2017 and now can’t...
Knit Camp 2019, 25 – 28 July
Sunday 12th August 2018
There will be a summer 2019 Knit Camp, and with all the people from 2018 who want to come back plus my waiting list, there is just one space – and I would love you to come. You can read all...