Stitch This

  • My first quilt

      Here’s one I made REALLY earlier. Recently we went to visit friends who we hadn’t seen for a long time. My friend showed me the quilts I had made for her two daughters – still being used and loved every day. I never took a picture of them new so grabbed my camera to…

  • Oh what a beautiful morning

    Just look at that lovely sunrise. How can anyone be fed up when you’ve got that to look at? I just took this while sitting on the train to Cardiff for work. I like Cardiff. I like Wales actually despite all the rubbish English jokes about it. I’m also happy because my little parcel from…

  • Define casting on?

    Strictly speaking this isn’t a new project at all, oh no. I’m just playing. I ordered this book from the States second hand ages ago and it finally showed up yesterday. It’s written by Maggie Righetti who did the absolutely brilliant Knitting in Plain English. This woman is a goddess. Really useful information and ideas…

  • Porridge ponderings

    So, here I am, staring into the black, black morning as the train carries me to Work. Look, you can have healthy porridge these days – it’s pretty good actually. This is my time for planning my week. Here’s my roll call… Loads on at work so it’s laptop up straight after this blog. Probably…

  • Finishing

    So, we get to discussing behavioural patterns at knit club tonight. It was a fact universally agreed that I am not a finisher. I think I might want to rectify this. But how? I have boxes ofufo’s but I’m not too hot on reviving them before starting something new. Maybe finish one before I’m allowed…