Stitch This

  • Time travel

    Goodbye to 2008 and all that… To 2008 – a pretty rough year all round. I wanted to show you the wallhanging I made for the Festival of Quilts the following year. It’s made from a variety of fabrics, cotton, calico, lace, ribbon, a baby blanket I acidentally felted in the machine. I bleached the black fabric…

  • Living in a box

    This is not a winge. Honest. More an observation. The wedding was lovely. My Boys were fab. My feet are wrecked (new shoes). The cushion did it’s job! And yet. I found it so much harder to connect. To talk to family and friends. Why? Is it the PD or am I just knackered? I’m…

  • Oh, the humanity

    I feel I have to write about the Channel 4 programme, Sex,Lies and Parkinsons aired last week. My, my what a furore down at Camp PD. It covered the challenges one mother faced, being diagnosed in her 30’s and the effect the meds had on her personality. Others have held forth about the programme’s pros…

  • Tightrope

    You know I try not to focus on about the challenges of having Parkinson’s but this week I had a session with the physio to assess how I’m getting on or going down depending on your frame of mind. Well, after a few comedy scenes involving exercise balls, wobble boards and me it got down…

  • Pause

    Sometimes something happens that stops you in your tracks. Pulls you up short. Makes you look around. Yesterday I was just getting ready to pick up Elder from summer camp, thinking what to make for tea, worrying about today’s meetings. Then I got one of ‘those’ calls. A member of my family is very ill,…