Stitch This

  • Go bananas

    So, what am I doing on such a freezing night i ask myself? I’m in my kitchen, warming myself by the cooker. It is Elders Christmas fair tomorrow and I’m making cakes. Look Banana and apple cakes with sunflower seeds and brown sugar on top. They are actually really quite good! A basic Victoria sponge…

  • Sticky quicky advent calendar – the sequel

    God, did I say this was quick? Maybe if you don’t make your own chocolates….I’m whacked so here’s a quick summary….tonight I marked the motifs with numbers, stitched up the side of the fabric to make a tube, and then dropped (homemade) chocs down the tube, tying off after each one. And that’s it! The…

  • Quicky sticky advent calendar

    I don’t know about you, but I’m not very good at buying things in advance. So here I am the end of November and no advent calendar for the boys. By which of course I mean no chocolate advent calendar. So, harking back to a calendar my neighbour (Mrs Schroeder) made for me when I…

  • Deck the drawers…

    Can you guess what this is? No, it’s not a fancy Santa style noose. Nor is it an avante garde barbers pole. It is elders first christmas decorations of the season. I’m proud. I think.

  • Look! Book!

    Well I finished my Christmas book! You can get a preview here. I hope you like it. I’m going to sell ebook copies for about £2.50 as soon as I get to a pc so I can do the techy bit. If you are the glorious mumsnet Blogfest today I have a hard copy with…