Thank God for Tiny Humans [and for Autumn]!

The Surrey trees tell me that it is November already, and I realise with amazement that it has been more than a year now since I last visited here, since I last posted a project, and since, in fact, I last allowed myself the time to idle away knitting. But this time, I had [maybe] a good

Another year gone by…

Before we forget: Today, the pen, the brush and the needle celebrates its third blogiversary! Ok, ‘celebrate’ might be too strong a word, there won’t be champagne nor fireworks displays, but as every year we’d like to take this as an opportunity to thank our readers for dropping by and sticking around with us… So: Our

Taking stock

I spent this past weekend house-sitting for my parents who were away for a few days… While I had brought some of my work, I also took the opportunity to enjoy my parents’ incredibly well-stocked pantry, the swimming pond and the garden. Having taken along my camera, I sort of took stock of what was

Welcome to the Snow Blog!

Ok, I give in… Really, I wish I had something more interesting to blog about than just snow, snow, snow, but the way the weather has been here this past week, it is virtually impossible to think about anything but snow. But you know what? I’ve come to realise that in a certain sense this

Two candles on the cake

A few weeks ago, I came by this old box of photo corners which – judging by the context I found it in – presumably dates to the early 1960s: I practically saved this box from the trash can because, as you will know by now, I do have a penchant for all old things.