A Stillness Shawl in Winter

As I've written about many times, 2020 was a hard year for my creativity - it completely disappeared for the most part. I think most people will have experienced the same thing as me. The pandemic really took over and forced my being into this survival mode where the best I could ask of myself…

A Tegna in Lockdown

For long-time readers of this blog, you'll remember this project. This is my Tegna top, started way back in 2018. It was my first proper knitted clothing item with sleeves, a step up from the Sycamore vest that I knitted, and man, did it take a long time to knit! I originally started this project…

Mid-Knitting Snacks | French Pear Cake

Happy Valentine's Day! Today I thought I'd share a recipe I found at the beginning of 2020. It's a French recipe, and we all know French is the language of love supposedly so what better way to show your love by baking yourself or someone else a good cake! Like I said I found this…

Life, Life, Life

2020 was a rollercoaster, wasn't it? Just when we think lockdown is over and life is getting back to some sort of normal, another Covid spike will happen and we'll get restricted again. Here in the UK, we're currently in our third national lockdown. I've found the whole thing all very strange to be honest.…

I Smell Snow in Spring

COVID-19 has made the world a funny place, hasn't it? A lot of us are cooped up at home, pottering around, trying to juggle work life in our homes with homeschooling our kids, or managing our to-do lists with our ever increasing pit of anxiety and worry in the background. Life is unstable. In multiple…

Loneliness and How to Overcome It

Moving to a new place is hard. We've all been there at some point in our lives, finding ourselves in a new place with new people and new cultures to discover and explore. We find ourselves perhaps feeling like an outsider, trying hard to adapt and fit in, trying to find friends or even just…