Stitch This

  • What Quarkee did next

    How was your Mother’s Day? Mine was spent doing housework!!! But i had a great day the day before being taken to a big charity furniture warehouse and a knitting shop in Stroud I’d been meaning to go to for ages. Fab. I also got lots of time with my boys and the chance to…

  • Work work busy busy rush rush bang bang

    Well here’s my Make list – it’s a work in progress as are many of these projects. I’ll add links etc as and when. Knitted gold bag – an experiment in mixing yarns together. Socks – any kind. Desk skirt – assuming I don’t get a retro larder. Lacey scarf crochet – coming along. Japanese…

  • destash

     I’m having a clear out in anticipation of some type of storage for my sewing area. I yearn for ironed piles of fabric in pretty bundles. I actually have this: and that’s the nice bit. I’m fantasising  about dressers, cupboards and 1950’s larders. My ebay watch list is lengthy to say the least. It’s Mother’s…

  • Things I learnt this weekend

    Well, we made it…and I have grown a little wiser as follows I wildly underestimate prep times jellies take longer to set than you’d think 20 is the absolute maximum you want at a brithday party children are the perfect demonstration of entropy – they continue to expand to fill the space they are given…

  • the calm before the storm

    It’s Elder’s birthday party this weekend – superhero theme – 20 under 5’s in a village hall…I think I’m the one who’ll need saving. It’ll either be BRILLIANT (I hope) or Purgatory (I fear). I’ll report back with suitable evidence…wish me luck, I’m going in.