Stitch This

  • 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…

  • Monday meanderings

    No actual brainpower today, just some snaps of vintage stuff I have stashed around the place. Hoarder, moi?!

  • Shoestring chic

    As the wonderful Jean Kerr once wrote ‘I buy underpants like others buy gin, wildly, recklessly….’ I am the same with craft books. My latest is ‘Chic on a Shoestring’ by Mary Jane Baxter. Here she is. However, for the first time I thought I’d write a review. This way I will have a record…

  • Fascinating

    To weighty matters, there has been too much frivolity on this site recently – not. I’ve got a family wedding coming up soon and I had, up until last might, stood firm in the face of fascinator pressure from all and sundry. i find them a little – you know, obvious. Until I found these…