Stitch This

  • Lessons in love

    Elder is learning to crochet. He crotchets in bed, at breakfast, in front of the telly. A six year obsessed. I am so happy! This is his free form door handle decoration. Like? !

  • A good read

    A brief discussion in knitting club tonight has led me to jot down my favourite reading fodder…this is a very basic list but I would be interested in any additions you’d like to suggest… EM Forster’s Room with a View – i love how the main protagonists are trying to fit in but can’t deny…

  • Feet first

    This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for a long time. When I first came to Stitchopolis I didn’t know anyone apart from Other Half. I have never worked locally, I prefer the attractions of commuterville I guess. Perhaps that may change but it was hard to make new friends. And then I…

  • Imprint

    So, the eagle eyed amongst you may have noticed I’ve been a little more productive than normal on the stitching side of life. One reason is because I have been off sick for a few weeks while I let my brain catch up with te realities, physical and otherwise, of Parkinson’s. Making stuff is my…

  • Kindness

    Sometimes You forget that there is good in the world. We get so ground down by Bad News… Financial, political , social. And then someone reforms a random act of Kindness and it helps to restore faith. Today has been quite hard work and an unknown lady stopped to talk to me as I bent…