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  • If the skirt fits….

    January is traditionally the month of diets. Well, if yours has failed miserably here’s a way of making your too-tight skirt fit again. Firat measure your waist, or just below it depending on where you want the skirt to sit. Then sit down as you ponder how the tape measure could be so wrong. Once…

  • Round and round the garden

    Today has been one of those days when you begin to question whether karma is having a larf. I can’t bear to go into detail but it involved tantrums, impossibly tight car parking spaces, cancelled playdates, emergency dashes to doctors and the entire linen cupboard deciding to jump out to greet me. Nice. Suffice to…

  • Quilt ER

    This is an eBay rescue quilt, probably 1920’s or so, with holes galore. I can’t bring mYself to cut it up though so I’m mending it. Rotary cutter? Needles? Fabric? Pins? Check. Mop my brow, nurse, this is going to be a long job.

  • Sshhh…stitch ideas forming

      Stitch Towers is turning into a bit of a specialist library. I blame it on Mary Portas. Ever since her foray into charidee shops the quality of books at our local shop has been on the up, and it was pretty darn good anyway. Either that of the good citizens of Stich City have…

  • Buttons for breakfast

    The mark of obsession. Making covered buttons at the breakfast table because I wanted to close my cardigan up! Lovely ribbon from VV Rouloux. Yum!