When you've had a baby, you're supposed to love it. Often, unbidden, you do. Sometimes, it's just plain old love and not L...

This is a very simple variation of a traditional granny square. I think it works best as a four-round square, so the contrast in the co...

I'm not old, am I? Not that I'd have a problem if I were properly old, i.e. 90, but I'm barely forty and in my head I'm stil...

I really am not the most maternal person. I'm really not. But I have two children and, in general, the smallies seem to like me. This is...

This pattern comes as a free PDF. It's basically one very simple pattern that can be used to make little owls, penguins or robins. Y...

  Being a grandparent allows you to behave like the worst parent ever. As we passed the local frozen yoghurt café, my two-year-old said, ...

At the tender age of nineteen, my mother fell pregnant. 'Fell' being the operative word: she kind of tripped over and by the end ...

Ah, charity. Don't get me wrong. Big charities are the ones with the clout, the ones that can make changes, lobby governments, make...

 This free pattern is for an afghan square that I named the Margaret square: Daisy was a popular nickname for girls called ...