Stitch This

  • Colour

    Way back at the beginning of the year I said I would Choose Life this year. Wel, here we are almost at the midpoint and how am I doing? A mixed bag, I’d say. I’ve become better at stopping to smell the metaphorical flowers of Life, I’ve grown to realise how lucky I am with…

  • Appreciation

    Just to report that Bunny liked his cushion. Elder was quite keen too. I’ve been commissioned to do a sausage dog one next and Little One is to have a dinosaur one. What have I started ?!?!

  • Hop to it

    You have met the wondrous bunny before. Elder’s rock and comfort in the face of Life. Well, He (Elder, not bunny) asked for a tribute cushion yesterday. so, happy to extend my newfound needle felting skills, I agreed. Here’s the result… I drew bunny freehand onto white felt, cut the outline out and then needle…

  • Mostly harmless

    We met this fine fellow today at the (soggy) zoo. He had escaped his pen and was roaming free, loving it, boot button eyes twinkling. He wasn’t the nippiest of characters but he was having a great time. One day that might be me. But I will have invested in better anti-wrinkle cream. I’m hanging…

  • Perspective

    So, Parkinson’s is a bit of a weird condition. You don’t know whether it’s affecting you mentally as well as physically. Obviously, being given a such a diagnosis plays havoc with your plans for the future, changes your priorities, affects how you Think of yourself and others. What you don’t have however, is any way…