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…

  • Home sweet home

    Cars and boats. A houseful of boys. These are my lot in life. And now we’ve taken it up a notch. I’m in Devon. In Brixham. In our new flat!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hooray!!! PS the seagulls say hello. Loudly.

  • Is there an echo in here?

    To the Cotswold Water Park with three girlfriends, escaping mothers all, for a night in a lovely hotel, good food and a little too much wine. What a shot in the arm. I actually read (Caitlin moran’s recent tome) , swam, knitted and chatted. Marvellous. You really do not realise the sheer lack of me…

  • Little fish

    A strange day or so. I stayed over in London for work and had a taste of my old, pre babies life. Went out after work, drank (a bit) of wine, had a lively and lovely meal with good friends. Mmmmmmmmmmmm the food was awesome. Great night. And yet. Despite all this I missed my…

  • What do you say?

    A full on and funny 24 hours. Different lives meeting head on. I’ve met lots of people, some I have known for 15 yes but not seen since I got ill, some I’ve hardly spoken to but who know the shaky me. Weird. Neither comfortable. Both exhilarating. Can’t bear it when old friends look worried.…