Squidge's Scribbles

 I knitted a lot of socks in the early days of the lockdown. It was the only thing keeping me busy when my brain felt like it was in turmoil...

The pace has slowed, but I've not stopped knitting...  Since I last wrote about my soxploits,  here  and  here ,  I've knitted even ...

So after almost 8 weeks of lockdown, the UK is beginning to open up. There are very different views on this, as you might imagine. Some wa...

An update on my coronasock exploits... I wrote a blog about coronasocks a while back - you can read it here , but do grab a cuppa fi...

OK - this is definitely a grab-yourself-a-cuppa-first kind of blog! At least it might go some way to relieving your lockdown for a while... ...

It's Easter weekend as I write this, and I am sitting in the garden on Easter Saturday, having just done a 45 minute pilates session on ...

Life is still very up and down, isn't it? I've taken to posting my daily positives on facebook, because otherwise it's very ea...

My home town has a historical link to hosiery. Sadly, the factories have closed now, and there's very little hosiery production - if any...

I've been knitting... Not for myself, but for the  Big Knit , a charity appeal whereby knitters make small hats to fit the tops of inn...

For the first time in weeks - maybe months! - I'm writing again. Still working on the oldie, but beginning to get a feel for the voice o...

Remember I wrote recently about how my crafting had gone rather crazy ? Well, I've finished one project - hooray!! - and am pretty cl...

Not had a chance to blog recently. My dad had a - thankfully - minor stroke a week ago. Can I just say how wonderful and amazing and caring ...