Hugo & Ellie

I started making knitting patterns during my second pregnancy as a way of dealing with stress and an

22/11/2025

The didn’t disappoint. 🎄it just take me a week to go through pictures.

Beautiful stalls, friendly makers and more wool in one space than seems reasonable — in the best possible way. I brought home some yarn for future projects and my daughter chose a cushion-making kit.

The lady from let her try it on a small piece of mesh, and she was hooked instantly. She started her kit as soon as we got home — very focused, very serious, and very proud of every little strand she weaves in.

Do your kids craft with you or ignore your hobbies?

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03/11/2025

Yesterday we had a full family outing at the Creative Craft Show in Birmingham . We immediately split into two teams and set off to explore workshops. Prices ranged from about £5–£20, which felt reasonable given how much some workshops required in terms of materials, time and skills.

Ellie started with a calligraphy workshop run by — a wonderful way to destress and improve mental health. She left with a very charming Christmas card and we also picked up a beautiful kids’ kit (£25) for her to practise lettering at home.

Next, she tried Shimmer Watercolour Painting on Wood with . Beautiful, iridescent paints and her first time using UV glaze. Her finished piece looked brilliant and the kit (£25) included everything: light, stand, design cut-out — all the fancy bits.

At the end, we both did a crocheting workshop with Sophie’s Crochets, where we made our first amigurumi pearl. It’s my stress ball now — so cute and squishy.

My son had a great time as well, but he did all the painting and drawing workshops. The proximity to the Christmas event was good too, giving him the opportunity to unwind with a book or two. His favourite stand was — he spent over an hour there decorating multiple items. He also tried a decoupage workshop, choosing to decorate a paper dragon.

It was a lovely day — creative, messy in the best way, and full of new things to try. Highly recommend if you like discovering new crafts.

01/11/2025

Trying new things seems to have been the theme of October.

• First ever yarn festival — my wallet is still recovering. Three jumpers’ worth of yarn now waiting for their turn, all 4ply 😱
• Tried walking and knitting — no major injuries, so I’m calling that a success
• Learned brioche stitch which is beautiful and still bit confusing 🧶
• I tried throwing clay — I made mug and gravy bowl!
• Got back into knitting properly and returned to designing patterns
• Finished my first ever pair of socks 🧦
• and even give a crocheting another go 💕

If this is what trying new things looks like, I think I’ll keep going ✨
Roll on November 🧶🍂

25/11/2023

Not knitting but another craft. Was fed up with my plastic wreath so made myself a fresh one. Everything from my garden beside some cedar branches grabbed from neighbours when they were trimming bushes.

24/09/2023

Birthday weekend in Peak District and finally have a moment to get few rows done. I feel like nowadays I’m surrounded by WIPs. Working on my size version of

29/07/2023

Weekend off and I’m going back to some old patterns in hope to finish them this time. 🤞🤞🤞

28/06/2023

Circular yoke done. I keep doing the same mistake every time I’m working on new pattern. Im so excited about the process that I’m not writing down every line hoping I will remember later. I don’t. So this is a second Cimena jumper that I’m working on, this time I’m writing down everything. This time done in hand dyed alpaca yarn by

25/06/2023

Finally had a chance to sit in the garden and spent some time knitting after first 2 weeks of the new job. Initial stress is slowly wearing off and I could focus on something relaxing. Beautiful dyed yarn by

09/06/2023

Few days ago we celebrated Ellies birthday and we had fab day. We went to cinema and shopping. Ellie was wearing Circus jumper in size 6-7 years, it fits perfectly with expected ease.

06/06/2023

I have few days of break between jobs and really taking time to relax. Thanks for all the equipment I’m now addicted to winding yarn 😂

03/06/2023

This dress is not going as planned, just frogged half of what I made, but I’m being positive that it was a good decision.

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