Over the last couple of months I’ve been doing a fantastic film-making eCourse called Shooting Stories by the two Kats at Capturing Childhood. Despite being crazy busy with work, I’ve absolutely loved doing the course in my very limited free time. I’ve focused on creating films of the twins crafting and at ballet, and on a visit to Southbank, that I’ve shared over on my other blog, Young & Younger, but it really set my mind thinking about how I could use my new-found movie-making skills on home-related videos suitable for Growing Spaces, too. Watch this space. Anyway, what I…

I had a bit of a lightbulb moment when my crochet mentor visited recently and commented on the tightness of my crochet! It didn’t surprise me – I’m a tense person so it seems natural I’d transfer this to my hooking. Since then I’ve concentrated on loosening my stitches and the resulting squares are only marginally bigger, but sit flat instead of curling up at the edges. I figure they will all balance out when I finally come to join them, but for now I’m finding the looser hooking much quicker and easier, and unsurprisingly I’m not getting as much…