The last 12 months have been crazy for seriously.hooked.up! This time last year our first social group in Kirkham was beginning to pick up, we had just launched our second social group in Lytham and we had arranged to trial our sessions in Poulton-le-Fylde. We had held brief conversations with the guys from Park View 4U about helping out with a project raising awareness of the importance of bees and wildflowers and we were not prepared for how the bees were going to more or l

This month seriously.hooked.up is taking part in the Love Knitting / Love Crochet #MakersMay Instagram challenge! You can follow the seriously.hooked.up instagram page by clinking here. This blog will bring all of our pictures and photo comments together. #MakersMay Day 1 - Making me Hello! I’m Anthony and I am the man behind @seriously.hooked.up. I work full-time as a registered nurse, but my passion is definitely yarn! I learnt to knit when I was very young, perhaps 8 years

Early in 2018 we were excited to announce our involvement in local charity Park View 4U's amazing #pollencounts project in association with Grow Wild UK. The project's aim was to highlight the importance of bees and wildflowers on our ecosystem whilst equipping children and adults with the knowledge to help protect the bees' future and raising money for Park View 4U which is a local charity. Part of the project (and this is where you came in) was to set a world record for the

Yesterday I went along with Anthony to help make pom pom bees with the children at the Parkview 4U's 'Bee Wild Day' to launch the #pollenCounts campaign. We filled our boxes with yarn, Pom Pom makers of various sizes, scissors, donned our 'Seriously Hooked Up' tops and headed for the Eco pod. We set up just before 10 with a due scheduled break at 12.30 until 1.30. It was amazing, we never anticipated it being so popular! All day right from 10am we had a constant swarm of exci

Last night was Kirkham‘s crochet, knitting and yarn social. The group was well attended. The lovely people had been very busy since last session and we had a new swarm of bees made or being made towards #Pollencounts at #parkview4u. I had the chance to help Kerry make a fluffy soft pom pom for her knitted Easter bunny and then share my C2C skills with Melanie. I can’t wait to see Melanie’s C2C blanket. She definately mastered the square last night. Hers is the yellow one pic

We went off to our Lytham crochet, knitting and yarn social session at Parkview 4u on Thursday the 22nd March and saw the bees were just buzzing in! Already approximately 90 bees had been created and many more were being made at our crochet, knitting and yarn social! Can’t wait to see how the swarm has populated by next Thursday! Lisa and Anthony crocheting bees at our Poulton session and below more being made by our group at Lytham . Diane had a production line going bottom