General Chat

I am continually pestering my (beloved) sister to accept knitted socks from me.  She is easy to knit socks for because her foot is only 4 rows bigger than mine so I never have to check the size.  The ...

One of the ways that I get myself to focus on getting things done when I feel more like flitting about is by using timers and setting limits on how long I can spend on tasks.  I think that is what was...

I set out at the start of September to run the Stash Smash Challenge in the TLYC Facebook Group to see if I could help folk get more made from their stashes.  I like challenges quite a lot or at least...

A little note on the apps, folk etc mentioned below. These are all either tools I love or people I know and love. This is not advertising, just sharing. There will be links to TLYC stocked products at...

I first met Maya from The Wool Barn at Fibre East about five years ago now I think and it was yarn love at first sight!  I bought some of her beautiful pale silks and some of her sock yarns and it was...

I think I'm safe to generalise and say many of us have a lot of single skeins in our stashes that we just had to have ... even though there was no plan for them.  Some of them will become the socks th...

I don’t know about you but I often look at my stash and think ‘Seriously, Michelle, you are going to have to do something about that’ and then I go about my merry way only to cycle back to the same th...

I am sharing this this week as many people have kids and other family/friends receiving A Level (UK) and Leaving Cert (Ireland) results and, as well as the headlines about great results, there will be...

I am delighted to be chatting with Sarah McFall of Yarn & Blarney on this weeks vlog!  She is ace!  

Note: I know I talked too much and definitely need to get better at not interrupting … this digital ...

I try to keep the moments of 'Are you sure you did the right thing' to a minimum here at TLYC HQ because, while it's good to plan and research etc, it's never good to second guess yourself after you h...