After 6 years of the original Loopy branding, I decided it was time to freshen up my brand with proper brand colours, and a shiny new logo. My mission, which I decided to set for myself (and accept!), was to come up with a proper logo design to show the fun, cheery nat...

Since Cyril was born in 2015, he and many of his brothers and sisters have found new homes all over the UK...

All Our Own Crafts pop-up shop was nominated this year for an award!

The last few days have brought a different creativity to me - I swapped the crochet hook for a mouse and keyboard temporarily to update the Loopy Needles websit

If someone had told me when I resigned from my full-time managerial job to work on Loopy Needles full time that I'd be on the telly within 2 years I would have laughed in their face. "Me? On TV? Live TV? No way. No thank you! I'd be far too nervous and wouldn't be able...

Nine long months ago on a cold mid-January morning in 2015, a group of 6 pub quiz goers met up at their local pub "Barton's Mill" to drive to Southampton airport, board a plane to Glasgow and check into a hotel for one night's stay. In their luggage, each of them had 4...

Here in the UK, tea is an institution. We love it!

Lots of tea shops and tea bars are open for business all over the country, selling many a different tea, whether it's good old English Breakfast tea, right up to the gorgeous flowering teas, it's all good.

Tea pots are a...

Crocheting and knitting for a living creates lots of small scraps of yarn - but rather than waste them, I've started to put mine to good use by making a multi-coloured granny stripe blanket for myself using all the longer ends of the different yarns I use with my proje...