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I Get Around

I’ve got lots of exciting new things to tell you about this week – and I think the easiest way to start to do that is with a screenshot of some of my events:

I’ve already told you about East Anglia Yarn Festival (in Norwich) that is in just a few weeks time (March 15-16) – where I’ll also be teaching my Introduction to Two-Colour Brioche Knitting workshop on the Saturday (15th, 1-3pm).

Then, on April 12th I’ve got a ‘trunk show’ at Yarn O’clock where I’ll be showcasing my designs – many of which were originally designed as mystery knitalongs (MKALS) for the shop. A trunk show is a one-person event and I’m really pleased and honoured that Anne has invited me to do this, following the success of Lottieknits‘ trunk show at Yarn O’clock before Christmas.

I’m exhibiting at Wonderwool Wales (at the Royal Welsh Showground in Builth Wells) again on April 26-27, which is very exciting and I’m teaching there as well this year! I’ll be teaching moebius knitting at Wonderwool – and it’s already sold out on both days!

In May I’ll be at Buxton Wool Gathering once more (May 17-18) at Buxton Pavilion and also at a new show one day in Shrewsbury (Yarnies at the Flaxmill) on May 24th.

And then after a couple of months without yarn shows, I’ll be travelling up to Newcastle for the North East Wool Show at the racecourse on August 9-10. I’ll be teaching my brioche workshop there too on the Sunday (10th), and if you want to book a place on this workshop please contact me directly.

Exhibiting at shows and teaching a workshop is only possible because of my lovely wife Sue who comes with me and holds the stand admirably whilst I am off teaching. If you come to one of these shows and I’m not there, Sue will be and she’ll show you all the patterns and kits and help guide you to the design(s) that can meet your needs. And if there are questions that are specifically technical ones for me to answer, Sue will always be able to tell you when I am due back on the stand!

There are another 3 or 4 more large events coming up later in the year to add to this list, once applications have been accepted and exhibitor lists have been revealed by the organisers.

Plus there are more in-person workshops coming up in May. These are not attached to a yarn show and I will be teaching sock knitting and lace knitting. More on those in the coming weeks!

And there should be news on this year’s Yarn Gathering in the next month or so as well, so keep your eyes peeled!

This morning I’ve spent a good hour or so working on part of a new garment design. I want to tell you a little bit about it. There are some unusual cables in it and the number of knits and purls in the ribbing varies so that when the knitting moves from the ribbing at the bottom to the cable pattern it is an organic shift, not a sudden break into something different. However, each size has a different number of stitches in between the different cable patterns and this has meant I’ve been working out exactly how to make the ribbing as smooth and elegant as possible for each size – each one is slightly different. This affects 3-7cm width of the ribbing in two places, but it’s important and was worth spending times on because it will affect the integrity and look of the whole garment.

This is an aspect of design that was emphasised during my City and Guilds course with the wonderful Loraine MacClean. It’s not enough just to plonk a 2×2 ribbing at the bottom of a jumper, then think about the main part of the body separately and call it done. To be a truly well thought through design that works as a whole piece, the sections need to link together and, if possible, develop organically from one to the next.

And did you know that each cable pattern will have its own unique tension that is different from stocking stitch tension (number of stitches/rows per 10cm)? This is because with cabled knitting, stitches are twisted across each other which pulls the knitting in so you get more stitches per 10cm with cable patterns than you do with stocking stitch (that’s just plain knit/purl fabric) and each cable is different because there are different numbers of stitches crossing each other.

So, if there are two cable patterns and some stocking stitch, that’s three different tensions to take into consideration. And if you decide (like I did), late in the evening that you need more space between two cable panels and therefore more stocking stitch (or reverse stocking stitch) stitches, that is going to change the size of the knitting. So, to keep the sizing correct (important for a garment), the stitch counts in other sections have had to change and essentially the whole body has been re-written!

It’s a good job I like playing with numbers!

Speaking of playing, I’ve nearly finished my cardigan that I’ve been knitting from deep stash. I had three skeins of dark grey and one of each of three other colours. You may remember that I tried knitting another Manu with it (lovely cardigan designed by Kate Davies), but this wool is a really hefty DK, so the tension was completely different and also, the colours didn’t play nicely together in small stripes.

However, in this design using blocks of colour it looks fabulous!

This is the Haori cardigan from The Slow Wardrobe (where I buy most of my ready-made clothes), and I’ve been combining the two sizes, so I’ve got the large circumference and the small length. The front neck edges are the same width, they’re just rolling in a bit before it’s had a wash (aka wet blocking!) I’ve really enjoyed playing with blocks of colour and I’ve been working on both sides/sleeves together, doing a section and then repeating it on the other side so they match. I’ve done it this way to make sure I don’t run out of a colour before I get to use it on the other side/sleeve.

I also find it fascinating how the same colours can look so wrong in one combination and then so good in a different one! I’m really looking forward to finishing this and getting to wear it.

So, I’m going to knit the cuffs and then contemplate weaving in lots of yarn ends! What are you going to do this week? K x

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Blue like my Hair

Several times during the past month, I have been stopped by strangers asking me about my hair colour. Sometimes they just want to tell me they think it’s fab. On one occasion (outside the Co-Op in Kidderminster) a lady called across the car park to ask which came first – my shoulder bag or my hair? They are basically the same colour! She was quite tickled when I said my hair came first.

As my hair has been blue/teal for nearly six and a half years, I sometimes forget that it’s not a ‘standard’ colour and get surprised when folk comment on it. But it is quite different from the ‘norm’ for hair colour and also from what it would look like if it was left ‘au naturel’, when it would be brown at the back and mostly white at the front! I did start to see more of the white resurfacing last month when I simply didn’t have time amongst everything else to keep the colour topped up, and I have to admit I felt much more ‘me’ once I’d been able to dye it again.

Something I noticed years ago at Knit Camp in Stirling in, I think, 2013, was that a large group of knitters was likely to have more people with unusually coloured hair than among the general population. At Knit Camp there was a lot of purple in evidence, although mine was still undyed at that time. I’m not sure if the general trend among creative types is towards brightly coloured hair still though – I will have to pay attention this coming weekend at the North West Winter Wool Festival (at the Imperial Hotel in Blackpool).

Personally, I love having blue hair and it has become quite a trademark – when checking in to set up at a Buxton Wool Gathering a couple of years ago (the first time I had attended), the organisers knew who I was without my even having to give my name! As they said, there weren’t a lot of folk trading with them who had blue hair.

We used to have coloured wine glasses – each with the bottom of the glass a different colour and Sue would always give me the one that was “Blue like my hair”, so it became a phrase. Blue has been my favourite colour since I was a small child and had a peddled blue plastic car – at some point I will locate and share a photo of toddler me ‘driving’ that car! Looking around the house I see now there are lots of blue things – and walls! Whenever given the option it seems I will plump for a particular type of blue!

Do you have a favourite colour? One that you are drawn to over and over again? What is it? Do you know why you love it so much? I’d love to hear about it!

Later this afternoon I will once again be topping up the blueness of my hair in readiness for the North West Winter Wool Festival at the weekend. I’m really looking forward to this show. Shirley has worked really hard getting everything organised for us, and it’s going to be fun to stay at the same venue as the event as well! No long drives after setting up to try to find the accommodation, or worrying about navigating the traffic on a Saturday morning! Blackpool isn’t as far away as I’d thought either – apple maps was giving me a drive time of an hour and a half the other day when I looked up the journey which is very reasonable. I will allow extra time though, because with the M6 you never know. If you are coming to the show, please do say hello – and if you’ve got an Imperial Cowl with you, please do show me!

Thank you to everyone who has bought a copy of Bodelwyddan already this month – I’ve sold 6 copies of this pattern so far this month (and we’re not even halfway through February yet!) so at minimum there will be a donation of £18 to Treasure Chest YGC, a charity that raises money for those having treatment for breast cancer at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd (hence the ‘YGC’ – it’s Glan Clwyd Hospital). I’m hoping there will be some more sales before the end of the month to increase the donation I’ll be making. Both digital and paper sales of Bodelwyddan will be included.

If you can’t make it to Blackpool at the weekend, don’t worry, I’ll tell you all about it next week. Until then, take care, and do something with your favourite colour! K x

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Coming up for Air

The top edge of a knitted shawl in golden yellow, green and pink, pinned out to dry with a wooden rule to keep the edge straight.

This week I finally feel like I’m starting to get back to stuff that makes me “me”!

I finished the shawl I showed you a sneak peek of last week and on Monday morning I blocked it. I’m really pleased with how it’s come out and I’ll be showing you the whole thing very soon! The blocking is a gentle one, just easing the edges into straight lines and pinning them in place to dry, rather than stretching the lace out to its limit. I happen to have a wooden metre rule (actually as the measurements are in inches, it might be a yard rule) that came with my blocking kit and this was the perfect tool to ensure I was maintaining a straight line as I pinned. The pattern will be available exclusively in kit form from James McIntosh in the spring. Remember you can already get gorgeous kits for County Shawl and Barragán from McIntosh (and, if you already have the ideal yarn for it in your stash, you can buy the pattern on its own for Barragán from me). Some folk do check in with me about kit sales to

I’ve also sent off a submission swatch/sketch for a design that could be published later in the year and had two others accepted recently.

And last Wednesday was spent mostly making 18 jars of Seville orange marmalade. This was made in two batches which is why it took most of the day, as there was no way my jam pan would have coped with 2.5kg fruit, 5kg sugar and 9 pints of water! It tastes delicious.

Last week’s Zoom brioche class went really well and my student completed her entire swatch during the session. I was very impressed and was pleased she said that I could share a pic of her work with you. Isn’t it great?!:

I will be teaching my Introduction to Two-Colour Brioche workshop (pictured above is ‘Next Steps’) at a couple of yarn shows this year and I’m keeping my eyes peeled for when they open their bookings for these so I can let you know.

Last week I mentioned the North West Winter Wool Festival taking place in Blackpool on February 15th and 16th. The opening hours are 10am-4pm for advance ticket holders, and 11am-4pm for tickets bought on the door. This is important as if you don’t have a ticket pre-booked you won’t get in at 10am. So if you want to be sure of a whole day of woolly fun, get yourself an advance ticket now!

I’m really looking forward to this show, although I won’t have my lovely wife acting as my ‘booth babe’ on this occasion, so I shall be flying solo. It’s a pattern only show for me, so I won’t have any kits with me, but there will be lots of wonderful yarn on offer from other vendors that you will be able to pair with any patterns you purchase!

Vendors will be split across two rooms, the Lancastrian Suite and the Louis room, both of which are on the same floor of the hotel and very close to each other. Do make sure to visit both spaces so you don’t miss out on anything.

To date, 73 ticket holders have downloaded their free copy of The Imperial Cowl, which is wonderful. I’m hoping to see lots of them being worn at the show! If you have bought an advance ticket and not downloaded your pattern, please do! The free version of the pattern is only available as a pdf download, and I won’t have any printed copies available until Wonderwool in April!

Writing this reminds me that one more task to add to my list of things to do before I head to Blackpool is to seam the shocking pink version that I knitted on the way to Kent before Christmas. See, I’m still coming up for air! (I also need to block the DK version of Into the Vortex that I knitted much earlier in the year – I think I finished it mid-October…)

The next few days will see my computer and printer working overtime (thank goodness they don’t only work 8 hour shifts!) as I update my inventory and get printing! I’ve double checked that I have spare ink cartridges lined up as well. The ones I buy are really good – expensive, but each colour does 2500 pages and the black does 5000 pages! (and I’ve got two of those on hand, so no fears of running short just yet!).

On a somewhat different note, I have my very first mammogram next week. I’m a little apprehensive about it to be honest, but I will be going as I know that these screening tests save lives. Early detection can just mean that you need to have something removed and then be closely monitored for a few years. If you get invited for a mammogram (or any other type of health screening check) please go. It could save your life.

Bodelwyddan was designed as part of a fund-raiser for Ysbyty Glan Clwyd (that’s Glan Clwyd Hospital to anyone who doesn’t speak Welsh) which is based in the village of Bodelwyddan (pronounced Bod-el-with-an). In October 2023 I donated 50% of sales from this sock pattern to Treasure Chest YGC, a charity whose aim is to support and raise funds for patients who have had or are having surgery or treatment for breast cancer in Glan Clwyd Hospital. I’m going to do the same for all sales of Bodelwyddan during February – so what are you waiting for? Crack open the sock yarn!

That’s all from me for today. Take care, stay safe and, if you get even the smallest chance, do something that makes you happy. K x

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Signs of Spring?

it’s been quite a week! I took part in the Knit Happy! Summit online as one of the speakers, and I’ve really enjoyed it. I’ve had some lovely interactions with some of the 9000 (!!!) people attending the summit including with knitters who watched my presentation on How to Knit a Pi Shawl.

Yesterday I got the chance to watch some of the other presentations from the summit. I particularly enjoyed Jen Parochini’s of One Wild Designs talk on common sense bust darts and I’m looking forward to adding some to an existing sweater pattern next time I knit one! I did design a sweater including darts as part of my City & Guilds course, but it was only written for my own size (at the time). I would still love to revisit and update that design, grading it for different sizes and including instructions for knitters to add their own personalised bust darts. I think it will be quite a big piece of work and I’m hoping I’ll be able to block out some time for it later in the year.

As a result of the Knit Happy! Summit my newsletter subscribers have grown from just over 200 to over 800! In a week! Not what I was expecting at all, and it has made me smile – and hope they stick around for a while. It did involve quickly upgrading to a paid MailChimp plan so it would continue to function, and I’ve also started researching other newsletter/email platforms in case a different provider is something I need to consider in the future.

Yesterday we also had the excitement of a drains survey and we were so glad to hear that everything is fine. It did mean that I went into the back garden (for the first time in a few weeks) and it was wonderful to see the snowdrops in flower and the hellebores making an appearance. Of course today it’s raining hard, so I won’t be able to get any decent photos of them. For some reason, thinking about the snowdrops has reminded me that I really need to find some Seville oranges and get on with marmalade making…

If you’re a long time reader of this blog you will know that I’ve had a few issues with my car in the 15 months I’ve had it and, indeed, I am once again back at the garage. However, today is not a mechanical problem which is very nice! I’m just getting a trim replaced that was snapped two weeks ago while my rear windscreen wash jet was being fixed. Fortunately I will not be paying for that as it wasn’t me that broke it!

Being back at the garage means I am typing this on my iPad and I don’t seem to have the knack of selecting a small amount of text to delete. I just tried to delete two sentences and lost a whole paragraph! Maybe my iPad is trying to save me from myself as it was a little sentimental – I was talking about my Mum’s recent move to a care home (planned and her choice) and clearing her house which she’d been in for over 60 years and which I’d grown up in. It was a big job and I am glad the house sale completed last week.

Everything with Mum got delayed by two weeks (for completely different reasons both the house sale completion and Mum’s move as she ended up in hospital again – complete with a 19-hour wait in various ambulances outside A&E), I find myself at the end of January coming up for air and wondering where the month has gone. I am teaching on Zoom again tonight. Tonight is Next Steps in Two-Colour Brioche Knitting. This is your last chance to book a place!

Last week’s workshop was good. I had just one student attending – from Arizona! – but, as I had no travel, room hire or accommodation costs to cover, we went ahead. She did amazingly well and we even covered how to pick up dropped stitches in two-colour brioche and correcting mistakes. It’s amazing what you can do even when thousands of miles away!

The North West Winter Wool Festival takes place at the Imperial Hotel in Blackpool in just over two weeks. Mark February 15-16 in your calendars and do come if you can. If you buy an advance ticket (only £6 for the day!) you will also get to download a free knitting pattern that is exclusive to the show until mid March. I’ve seen a couple of Imperial Cowls knitted by people who are coming to the show and it never fails to give me a thrill to see items that knitters have made from my patterns and shared with me on social media (Instagram in this case). The one on the left was knitted by Sally and the cowl on the right was knitted by Suzanne. Aren’t they great?!

I’ve been making good progress on a new design that was started in November and I’m on the final stretch, knitting an applied i-cord edging and trying to calculate how much yarn it will use. I know some folk aren’t fans of applied i-cord, but it makes all the difference to this design, giving the edge weight and maintaining the shape well. It does grow surprisingly fast too once you get into the rhythm of it – I did half of one long edge in under an hour on Sunday. Soon I’ll be able to show it to you properly when it’s all finished and been blocked, but for now here’s a sense of it:

I’m using McIntosh BFL 4ply in three glorious spring colours! BFL is short for ‘blue-faced Leicester’, which is a sheep breed and this is a 100% British wool that is a joy to knit with.

Right, that’s all from me for today. Who’s coming to Blackpool? Take care one and all, K x

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Getting Sorted

It’s been an admin type of day today. Many of my days lately have been full of admin, but it’s mostly not been my own admin, so it’s been good to start to feel a little bit more in control of what I’m doing. So far, I have updated the household accounts, updated the yarn shows I am attending on the website (as far as they have been made public), attempted to book a hair-cut (thwarted as they were shut), applied to another yarn show, planned a choir rehearsal for tomorrow and prepped everything I need for my Introduction to Two-Colour Brioche Knitting workshop tonight.

There’s still time for you to book on the brioche workshop – as it’s held on Zoom you don’t even have to leave the house! It’s 7-9pm GMT tonight; all you need to bring is two contrasting colours of DK yarn and a circular 5mm needle. I email the handout to those attending beforehand. You need to be able to confidently knit, purl, yarn over, cast-on and cast-off. The rest I will teach you.

It was good to add some of the yarn shows I’m attending to the website and I’ve tweaked the Events page layout so it’s easier to scroll through. These are the two shows I’m doing in May.

It’s also helped me check which ones I’m teaching at (about half of them!) and I have had a little sneak at how ticket sales are going for some of those workshops. It’s not all brioche at the shows this year. I’ll be teaching moebius knitting at some of them – another technique that seems to be magical!

Another task I undertook this morning was a mammoth stitch counting session. Last night I’d got to the end of Part 14 in a design I’m working on and I was 2 stitches short of what I should have had (254 instead of 256). So, today I counted the stitches at the end of each section from the beginning, checked it against the pattern (and checked the pattern was correct). The way this pattern works, it begins with a single stitch and, once the shape is established, increases 1 stitch every other row. Everything was spot on, right up until the last 3 rows. I’d missed a yarn over right in the middle of the last lace row and I’d missed the last increase on the edge. Both those errors had been made late last night – note to self: don’t knit when tired. Of course, if I’d started checking at the top I would have found the mistakes more quickly, but at least the stitch count throughout the pattern has had a good double-check as well now!

Are you going to the Knit Happy! Summit? If you are and you’ve upgraded your free ticket to the VIP version with the Knit Happy Toolkit, remember to claim your free pattern bundle from me. My contribution to the toolkit is a set of 3 of my knitting patterns – Ogee Lace Scarf or Wrap, Reaching Out and Mirror Mirror Moebius. Each pattern was chosen to help stretch and develop a knitter’s set of skills in different ways and give you three lovely items to wear or gift. There is a host of other free patterns and workshops included as well in the toolkit if you are attending the summit, it’s definitely worth upgrading! (And if you sign up to the summit through my link and then upgrade, I will get a small commission).

I will keep today’s post short, as there is still a lot to do before this evening’s workshop, but I did want to tell you about the film we went to see last night. A Complete Unknown is about Bob Dylan’s early career and I thoroughly enjoyed it, even though I’m not (or wasn’t) a big Dylan fan. It’s a well-told and well-acted story and the music is super. If you get a chance, go and see it!

Til next week, take care and do something that makes you happy. K x

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Knit (what makes you) Happy

Some people hate routine and really push against it. I have to say I like routine, even though I don’t always stick to the routines I know are good for me, like getting up at the same time every day. I do like knowing what I’m doing and what’s coming up next and knowing where everything is. I spent at least twenty minutes today looking for some very important documents. I did find them, but it was somewhat stressful!

The past month has tested me as there has been little in the way of routine, although several of the days leading up to Christmas were really lovely. Until last Friday I’d been at home for less than 48 hours in three weeks. This is why I haven’t really been posting much on social media lately and also missed last week’s blog post – life has been a little more complicated than expected, but hopefully things will be smoothing out soon. My lovely wife has reminded me of the phrase, “It’ll be alright in the end. And if it’s not alright, it’s not the end”! The other version is, “It’ll be alright in the end, but sometimes it’s a bloody long end!”.

Not a lot of knitting has taken place in this time (in fact I didn’t pick up the needles at all for about 10 days), but I have done a little. My new Haori cardigan is still growing, but somehow I have lost three stitches between when I picked up stitches to work the shoulder and upper body out towards the underarm to the current point – which is 60 rows on. I’m fairly certain it’s occurring at the point where the end of the row joins with the live stitches on the lower body.

I’ve been trying to tell myself it doesn’t matter, but I know that I’ll undo this part of the shoulder/upper body and redo it so the stitch count doesn’t reduce from 100 to 97 unexpectedly. Otherwise I’ll end up trying to mimic it on the other side and may even end up losing more stitches! It may seem like a lot to redo, but in the end that’s what will make me happier.

On the way to Kent before Christmas I did also knit another sample of the Imperial Cowl – the design I created for the North West Winter Wool Festival – see more about that event below. That’s six samples of this cowl I’ve knitted now – it really is a ‘more-ish’ pattern. This one is in shocking pink DK yarn, dyed by LottieKnits that I bought at her trunk show at Yarn O’clock, and it just needs a wash (aka blocking) and seaming. I’ll photograph that one soon.

If you are on my newsletter email list, you will know that in just over a week there is a free knitting summit – the Knit Happy! Summit – taking place and I am one of the speakers! There are more than 25 of us and we have all pre-recorded presentations on a wide variety of knitting topics. I am speaking on ‘How to Knit a Pi-Shawl’. It’s a fascinating technique to create a flat knitted circular item (that may or may not be shawl sized) starting at the centre and working outwards.

The Knit Happy! Summit takes place 23-26th January and you can get your free ticket here. All the presentations are available for 48 hours after they go live. If you want to be able to access them beyond that (or even get a knitter’s toolkit with freebies worth hundreds) you can upgrade your free ticket after you have registered and secured your place.

The Extended Access Pass is $57 (that’s currently less than £47) and gives you early access to all the presentations, lifetime access to watch them and all the presentation notes. The VIP Happy Knitters Toolkit is $77 (less than £64) and gives you all of that, plus tickets to 3 Zoom events that are social knitting/stitching sessions for summit attendees, $425-worth of knitting patterns, workshops and more, and 30-days free membership of Stitch Society which is run by Jessica from Doublethestitches.com who is organising the summit. Full disclosure: If you book your free ticket through my links on here, and then upgrade it, I get a commission.

I’m also doing some teaching this month on Zoom. There are still places available on both workshops!

Introduction to Two-Colour Brioche Knitting

21st January, 7-9pm (GMT), Introduction to Two-Colour Brioche Knitting, £25 per person

  • Learn this amazing knitting technique to create a wonderfully squishy fabric. We’ll cover the basics of the two colour brioche stitch and the terminology. We’ll also explore a brioche increase and two simple decreases to create geometric shapes in your brioche swatch.
  • Skills required: cast-on, cast-off, knit, purl, yarn over.
  • You will need 2 contrasting colours of DK yarn (approx 7g of each), 5mm circular knitting needles (60cm long is ideal) and a pen or pencil. Needles must be circular for brioche knitting, though we will be knitting flat, not in the round.

28th January, 7-9pm 9GMT), Next Steps in Two-Colour Brioche Knitting, £25 per person

  • Develop your two-colour brioche knitting skills further with increases and decreases to create wonderful geometric and curved shapes.
  • Two increases and three decreases enable you to knit this splendid geometric swatch. Even better, they’re some of the most commonly used incs/decs so you’ll be able to tackle a wide range of brioche patterns after taking this workshop.
  • Skills required – cast-on, cast-off, knit & purl, some experience of knitting basic two-colour brioche stitch.
  • You will need 2 contrasting colours of DK yarn (approx 7g of each), 5mm circular knitting needles (60-80cm is ideal) and a pen or pencil. Needles must be circular for brioche knitting, though we will be knitting flat, not in the round.

My first show of the year is coming up very soon as well. The North West Winter Wool Show is taking place at the Imperial Hotel in Blackpool on 15th-16th February. I’ve mentioned this show to you already as I have designed the exclusive pattern that you get if you purchase an advance ticket! A day ticket is £6 and a weekend pass is just £8! There are going to be 40 vendors and workshops in a beautiful setting and I highly recommend you visit if at all possible.

I will get the website updated very soon with the details of shows I am attending this year. Some of them I can’t list until they reveal their vendors and workshop teachers, but full details will be up soon!

I hope the start of 2025 is treating you well and that you get a chance to do something that makes you happy this week. Until next time, take care, K x