Evening all. Spring is here and getting into full swing. The weather here in York has been gorgeous the past few days, much to my joy- the return of the rule of 6 couldn’t have come at a better time.

In the meantime, I’ve spent the past month fairly quietly. Eric and I are having to move house in the next few months, so we’ve been on a mission to find somewhere new (still within York though!) My roots are here and they grow deep, so I won’t be moved out of the city quite so easily.

As usual, I’ve been working best I can on commission work. I’ve got a queue of patient customers waiting and so their items must always come first. I’m lucky to get asked to do a nice mix of interesting bits and old-faithful kit pieces, so each customer is different.

In my own time, I’ve been slogging away at a couple of different projects. Some are secret for now (I plan to give them their own articles in due course), some are just not all that exciting. I did manage to finally finish my own boy tunic at long last, which was a labour of love. I started it in early September using offcuts of leftover grey wool I had and intended it to be done in time for my walk from Riccall to Stamford Bridge. This obviously didn’t happen and I kept picking it up to do a seam here, a seam there. It is entirely handstitched and all the seams reinforced. It is extremely satisfying to manage to cobble together something useful from leftovers and perhaps even more so when the endeavour takes you a while. This one is an item I’ll probably write about and take some photos of, when I feel up to it.

Anyway, that’s enough from me. To tell you the truth, I only logged in to write because I didn’t want to let March pass by without an update! It’s not been a month of note, but by no means have I been idle. 😁

I’ve got a few pieces I’ve been working on for a little while and I hope they’ll be of interest to some of you. Take care all, enjoy the nice weather while it lasts and keep washing your hands 😘