• Gratuitous baby picture

  • The one I’ve been putting off

    Mumsnet have been running a brilliant campaign for a Miscarriage Code of Conduct. As part of it we bloggers have been askeD to share our thoughts and experiences. Here’s the link and here goes…. All my life I’ve quite enjoyed being slightly apart and ‘indie’ but here’s a club I find myself thrust into and…

  • London buses…

    My projects are like London Buses…you wait for ages and then 3 come along together. Here’s a peek at what I’m fiddling around with at the moment. Just to whet your appetite…  This is part of a sewing swap I’m taking part in – I’ve talked about these before. A great excuse to try new…

  • Needled

    eBay strikes again. This time in the form of a bag of vintage knitting needles. I’d spotted some tortoiseshell pins in the bidding pictures and took a chance. The good? Some lovely examples of 50’s needles and a fab row counter. The bad? The tortoiseshell needles were shattered and lay in pieces! Agghh! I salvaged…

  • Chop!!

    I got bored tonight so out came the scissors. And chop! This is a long t shirt from Asos with lace trimming and crochet collar and it looks blardy awful on me. So scissors were the only option. Here’s the collar. Needs some umph. So let’s play…. I cut a patch from the scraps, cut…