Stitch This

  • This used to be a table

    Look at this! They’ve taken the tables off all the seats on my train. How mindless. Where does your coffee go? How do you work? Way to go Great Western. F minus for understanding customer needs. Grrrrrr.

  • Embrace the chaos

    This is emphatically NOT a parenting blog – I leave that to others who know far more about that sort of thing and who can be bovvered to write about it. But I found a note on my hard drive the other day that I thought you might be interested in. I wrote this little…

  • Stuffed!

    Every family has its Christmas traditions. Egg nog, midnight mass, stuffing. Yep, stuffing. Crucial to the success of our feast. Paxo this ain’t. You remember my family recipe book? Well, my mum’s handwritten recipe for Stitch Family Stuffing fell out when I was nosing through it. It now has pride of place in our kitchen…

  • Desperate. But not serious.

    Omg. Omg. Omg. I’m a teenager and I feel like screaming. In a good way. Adam Ant live and kicking. Damn he’s good. No nostalgia to taint what are sharp and tight tunes. They may be from far too long ago to admit to but they’re the bomb. No back to the 80’s schtick. All…

  • Slow, slow, shake, shake, slow

    Quick is good, no? We are all so used to striving for speed, efficiency and ASAP in everything. Even in my sheltered world of stitch. Most craft books emphasise the quickness, the ease of their projects. And yet. To be honest, although quick makes are lovely as an option (and I’ve written about some on…