Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had as relaxing a Christmas as me. At the end of last year things had got horribly busy with a photo shoot for both Rowan and SMC Select the week before Christmas. So I had a long relaxing break from work (though not knitting itself obviously!).
My families homemade Christmas was a huge success and I can thoroughly recommend doing it to anyone. I thought I would show you part of my haul below, though I am afraid there was also masses of wonderful homemade sweets and biscuits that never made it to photography!
I am now in the final throws of preparing for another photo shoot and Vogue Knitting Live in New York so hopefully see some of you there.

Vertigo

Many apologies for my lack of posts I have been suffering from vertigo for a couple of weeks and the computer screen is not my friend at the moment :(

So I just thought I would show you a few pictures of the things I have been up to

Seasons greetings

S x

 Fun at the Clothes Show live

 My almost twin cats deciding whether to brave the cold!

 My retro Christmas decorations

and a little treat for all the hard work!

Joy of the jelly roll

I had plans to try quilting for quite awhile but hadn't anticipated how difficult it would be to start! I thought the hardest part was going to be the precision and my lack of sewing knowledge but hadn't accounted for how hard it would be to even pick the fabric. 

I had some fabric in mind but just couldn't make up my mind about which fabrics looked best together so imagine my joy when the lovely Hayley at Rowan came to my rescue with an Amy Butler jelly roll. It was wonderful to have so many fabrics that worked well together and as soon as I had this I was ready to get started in a matter of minutes. So I just thought I would show you the start of my project before I head back to the sewing machine.

Clothes Show

Just starting to get ready for the Clothes Show at the begining of December (by which I mean mostly picking outfits!) so thought I would share this with you.

Guest blog post

Just to let you all know I have just posted a guest item for the lovely jimmy beans wool.

A taste of autumn

My mum grows many vegetables but by far the most precious to her are the squashes. I am not sure what I did to deserve it but the other day she let me take one from the vaults just before she safely locked the others up!

This made me start looking for the perfect recipe to do it justice and I am thinking of this squash and cider soup from the lovely food 52

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I would definitely recommend a look at the site as just about everything looks utterly delicious

Happy days

The long grey days here are making it harder to have a cheerful day so I have taken to find small ways to lift my mood.

Firstly I just wanted to saw you the beautiful box of knitting needle bracelets I ordered from the lovely  Scrapiana on etsy

And The Langley School project  makes me smile everytime I hear it.