Stitch This

  • Home sweet home

    As promised, here’s the second part of my quilty purchasing odyssey. This time from the wonderful Etsy. All my quilting life i have harboured a deep love of this block, the School House block. Isnt it lovely? I’ve always wanted to either have or make a quilt with it. I made a nursery school banner…

  • Starry, starry night

    You know I like a nice quilt. Well the postman has been busy recently (as have HMRC collecting extra duty grrrr) as I have scored a couple of beauties recently. I’ll post the second one later but here’s number one. A 1930’s feed sack top with lovely stars all hand stitched. I’m thinking simple quilting…

  • Splish splash

    No, the title isn’t down to the weather. I will draw a waterproof veil over that. No, today was notable for the fun I had with Elder down at the local pool. It’s been so long since we had the chance to go and now I’m getting more sleep and looking after myself a little…

  • Skirting the issue

    Now you know I love a charity shop….I aslo like a charity chop and so here’s my latest rejig of a bargain buy. This was a perfectly good denin skirt with a lace panel thingy around it. Unfortunately it was way too small for me, so you know my normal solution to these problems….CHOP! a…

  • Stamp it out!

    A glimpse of my latest read. My plan is to introduce print into my makes. I will post a review of sorts soon… It’s a good read so far tho.