Definitely hat weather

Contrary to the evidence provided by this blog I haven't fallen off the edge of the Earth! Last week was half term and we had a lovely time travelling to see family, and my friend Amy came to visit for a few days. Over the course of the week we have seen dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum, crunched through autumn leaves, dyed yarn (more on that soon), baked cakes and decorated Christmas decorations, all good fun!

I did have a couple of scheduled blog posts for the week I was away, but they both fell over and failed to publish, no idea why! Unfortunately this means you missed out on a couple of mini-promotions I had organised; to make up for this, I'm offering 50% off any of my hat patterns from my Ravelry store until 11.59pm GMT Sunday 5th November 2017 using the code OOPS, just follow this link to find them all.

Hope you're enjoying autumn and have some time to knit. If you have Christmas knitting on the needles, why not join in the Christmas Knits KAL that I'm running in my Ravelry group?* Crochet is welcome too!

 

 

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School's out for summer

As of this weekend, school is over for the academic year! Obviously the kids are very excited about this...

I am excited about getting to spend a lot of time with the kids; I have all sorts of activities planned, as well as plenty of family time. I'm also looking forward to a bit of a rest, and maybe a little extra sleep! This year has been a rather busy one, and I really enjoyed switching off all the alarms on my phone yesterday!

The holidays do mean that I'm not going to have as much time to work on knitting work, so for the past week I have been trying to get on top of things, making sure I have some patterns ready to have samples knitted, and a couple of test knits in my Ravelry group so that the tests can get underway before I get too busy.

The blog will take a bit of a back seat until September, I will try and check in at least weekly for Yarning Along, and may manage some other posts here and there, but it might be a bit quiet round here. While I'm away I will be working on several new patterns, so am hoping to return energised at the start of September.

To celebrate the arrival of the school holidays, I am having a little sale in my Ravelry store. For the next week you can get 20% off any of my patterns using the code SCHOOLSOUT.* Hope you find something you love.

*The code is valid on patterns purchased from my Ravelry store until 11.59 pm BST, Monday 31st July 2017. The code can be used as many times as you like, so this is an excellent opportunity to stock up. The code is valid on all individual patterns, and the Knit Night Collection and Reach for the Stars ebooks.