Little Yellow Cat Yarn Advent Calendars for 2021 are now available to order! I’m so happy to introduce my Yarn Advent Calendar 2021. I spent quite a while working out what colour theme to use and I’ve decided that this year’s theme is Maypole. Drawing on colours from European folk embroidery, blue…
Duffers
My first project for 2021 was a pair of felted slippers called Duffers. This is one of the easiest, fastest and most satisfying projects I’ve worked on for months. I used an unspun Icelandic wool called Plotulopi from Istex, and Morris and Sons Norway 8ply held together. I made one change to…
A Very Weird Year Part 3 – Spring and Summer
This is the third part of my three part review of 2020 – A Very Weird Year. Click to read part 1 and part 2. A Very Cold Spring and Summer By the time Spring came around, I was ready for some warmer weather and sunshine. Unfortunately, the sunshine was late to…
A Very Weird Year Part 2 – Winter
This is the second part of my three part review of 2020 – A Very Weird Year. If you’d like to read the first part, click here. The endless winter of 2020 By the time Winter arrived, I had been working from home for ten weeks. Australians had stopped fighting over toilet…
A very weird year part 1 – Autumn
There are three days left of 2020 and I don’t need to tell anyone that 2020 has been a very weird year. So here is how 2020 happend for me. Working from Home I left the Melbourne office of my day job in mid-March and have been working from home since. I’m…
Socktober!
This year has been incredibly strange and has flown by so fast – I can’t believe it’s already October! While those who observe Halloween are getting ready to carve faces in pumpkins and consume unsafe amounts of chocolate, I’m limbering up for my annual sock knitting binge. In October I start to…