The One Pattern, Three Looks fingerless gloves by Carole Meldrum in issue 53 has a mistake.

In Row 57, after you've increased for the thumb, you continue across the row in the stitch pattern as set.

Thus, second half of the row should read:

... K9, m1, K1, yfwd, K1, yfwd, K3, sl 2, K1, p2sso, K3, yfwd, K1, yfwd, K3, sl 2, K1, p2sso, K3, yfwd, K2.

The K3 in bold has been omitted from the pattern in error. We apologise for this mistake – although it doesn't seem to have slowed most of you down!

We all had a fab time at Wonderwool on Saturday. I took my husband and his camera, and we kept bumping into Elizabeth and Helen as we went round. I'd been a little worried about how much Pete would enjoy it – he views my yarn stash with some suspicion, as though it's slowly consuming things and growing, rather like the alien in 1950s b-movie The Blob. (It is growing, but it doesn't eat things. Stash is a very benign lifeform.) Anyway, he had a thoroughly good day, which just goes to prove you don't have to be a knitter to enjoy a fibre festival.

I must admit, I spent less than last year because I've signed up to The Natural Dye Studio/ Fyberspates' Unicorn yarn club and a friend has launched her own sock yarn company, Laughing Yaffle, and between them they've eaten my yarn budget for the year. Still, I came away with some lovely Incomparable buttons from Injabulo, a Natural Dye Studio sock pattern and these cute little stitch markers from Atomic Knitting. I saw the markers early on, and there was one set of sheep remaining when we were about to go home so my husband bought them for me.

The most important thing that I left with – and that, hopefully, all attendees left with – was inspiration. My knitting has felt a bit bogged down lately, like a bit of a grind. (I've been finishing my first design for the magazine, and if you think 'second sock syndrome' is bad, wait until you've knitted four socks and then have to do the size variations!) Seeing all those sheep, bunnies and alpacas, gorgeous yarns and the skills of the spinners and dyers brought the reality of knitting home to me: that the craft we share is one of creating practical, beautiful things. If we have a bad day, we can go home and create a little bit of loveliness. If someone we love is having a terrible time, a hand-knitted shawl, socks or gloves says, 'I love you' better than words. That's so inspiring - and it's the real wonder of wool!

There's a mistake in the Spring Bloom pattern by Marie Wallin in issue 54 of Simply Knitting.

An eagle-eyed reader has just called to point out that inches and centimetres are not the same! On page 26, in the "back" section an instruction tells you to "work in st st until back meas 22(22: 21: 24: 23: 25)in, 22(22: 21: 24: 23: 25)cm". The centimetres are correct.

The inches should read: 8 3/4 (8 3/4: 8 1/4: 9 1/2: 9: 9 3/4)in.

Apologies for this typo!