Stitch This

  • Back to earth

    Sorry for radio silence…we’re back from a lovely week in (very sunny) Brixham. I love it down there…crabbing, kite flying, coffees, chips, sandcastles (Elder) eating sand (Little One) and, inevitably, motorway gridlock. We stopped off at Spin a Yarn in Bovey Tracey – special treaty shop for me, fab, fab, fab. I bought some 100%…

  • Playing shop

    Shop! As part of my massive clear out I’m getting ready for a bit of a yard sale next week – my knitting group have been invited along, I’m sorting buttons into colours, winding ribbons, plucking yarn and fabric from my stash…25% to charidee (Cancer Research and Parkinsons UK, natch) and the rest to fund…

  • Everybody out!

    It’s been a busy old time at Stitch This Towers. After weeks of watching bids I am now the proud owner of a dresser type cabinet which is destined to be home for my sewing kit. When we picked it up I admit we were disappointed as it’s not a solid as I’d wish and…

  • What shall we do today?

    Elder and I had a lovely day together yesterday. We dropped Little One off at nursery and went for a cup of tea at Waitrose (BIG treat), caught the bus into town, forgot all about household chores for a while (me), was thrilled with a ‘well done’ sticker from the dentist (him) and mooched round the…

  • The magic fabric roundabout

    It was a case of fabric out fabric in today. A box to the lovely Christine from mysewingcircle.com who is going to use my destash lovelies for charitable purposes. Out it went. Then on the way back from a physio appt ( wrecked hand) I found these gorgeous skirts and monsoon top from our local…