Stitch This

  • 100 posts!

    To celebrate 100 blogs I was all set to post a blindingly witty treatise on how meaningful this blog has become to disease ridden me. After tonight I say bollocks to that. I’ve been to my nieces hen night and observed mother/daughter relations first hand. I learnt this I’m Blessed to have my boys They’ll…

  • All flounced out?

    Part 2…I think I’ve just ruined a perfectly good, if small, maxi dress… Gulp. So, I made some binding with the fabric chopped off. Then sewed it on round the top to make pleats of the gathers. Then I hacked off the bottom tier to make a ruffled edge. And here’s where I’ve got to.…

  • We’re all in this together

    Reach for the top. That’s what we are all told as we grow up. All those teenagers waiting for their exam results (not looking forward to that phase, oh no) are hoping for great grades, many wanting to go on to university and challenging careers. I did. I worked hard, went to a prestigious uni…

  • Time’s a tickin’

    If i lined up all the minutes I spend on the iPad, rubbish Sky reality shows (sister wives anyone?!), my iPhone and t’internet in general I could crochet a motorway. Probably. I could at least plan it. I seem to split my time between chores, work and messing about online. I used to read. I…

  • Out damn spot

    Illness has descended – Little One is with the pox. I think. The doctor diagnosed CP yesterday but today anothr doctor (a friend) disagreed. Whatever, he’s hot and bothered and sad. Poor little chicken. I’m trying to combine nursing with work – LO has just gone for a nap so I have fired up the…