Winwick Mum
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An award-winning creative lifestyle blog featuring the hugely popular free Sockalong sock-knitting tutorials for beginners - let the fun begin! I'm Christine. I live in Winwick, a small village in Cheshire, and this is where I write about what makes me happy: my family, knitting, gardening, home-making, enjoying the outdoors.
Winwick Mum
2M ago
Hello, hello, how are you doing? I hope you’ve had a FaBuLous week! It was the Spring Equinox on Monday – can you believe that, winter is over, the days are getting longer and...
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Winwick Mum
2M ago
Well, it’s been an eventful 24 hours (nearly) here in Winwick! My original post was called “Joyful Friday” and I had nearly finished it when the electricity went off unexpectedly and we were without...
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Winwick Mum
3M ago
Unravelling … such a good word sometimes, and exactly the word for my week. My internet search defined “unravel” as this: 1 undo (twisted, knitted, or woven threads). 2 (of twisted, knitted or woven...
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Winwick Mum
3M ago
This week, on 1 March, saw the start of meterological spring in the UK. It was also St David’s Day in Wales so a belated Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus to you! Meterological spring is...
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Winwick Mum
3M ago
Can you remember being a teenager – sixteen, seventeen, eighteen or perhaps even a little bit older – and thinking you knew it all? That the world was there for the taking and you...
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Winwick Mum
3M ago
If you’re knitting socks to be gifted or to photograph for a blog or social media, you might not always want them to look as if they’ve come straight off the needles. That’s where...
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Winwick Mum
3M ago
What do you do if you want to gift a pair of your beautifully hand knitted socks and you want them to look their best but you don’t have any sock blockers? It’s perfectly...
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Winwick Mum
4M ago
I’ve got a lot of things to be thankful for. I try to remember to say thank you for them every day, and some days I am better at remembering than others, but then...
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Winwick Mum
4M ago
Hello! Welcome to February! The Winter Haven KAL has finished now for this year, and I do hope you enjoyed it if you took part. I have certainly been very glad of my Haven...
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Winwick Mum
4M ago
“We need to have a conversation about boundaries,” said my husband. Uh oh. This did not sound like a conversation that was going to be fun. “We need to talk about your boundaries,” he...
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