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.…

  • Flouncy!

    Want to see what I did in my lunch hour? Like the dress? Bought from Help the Aged while waiting for my prescription today. Nice but a bit on the erm, snug side. And very long. So out came my shears and…. Snip!!!!!? Elastic through a channel round the new top. Et……well not quite voila…

  • Treacle

    Ranty Tuesday, folks. Stop here if you are feeling even vaguely Pollyanna-ish. You have been warned. So far ( and it’s not 8am yet) I’ve got up early for a train that has been cancelled, waited for a 2nd which was late making my connection split second, blown my poor red nose oh, a 190…

  • Snails might fly

    Clearly they do. Upside-down.