Stitch This

  • Chook

    We used to have fluffy flared Pekin chooks back in the day. Here’s my quilted homage to the girls. A very well worn quilt I know but they’re meant to be aren’t they?

  • Here kitty kitty

    I’m a bit Sick today (for which read shaky so I apologise for the slightly fuzzy photos, I call it Parkyphotoshop effect) so I thought I’d show you Elder’s quilt what I made when he was little – a little older than Little is now. It’s my cats quilt with a little fish hiding in…

  • Time travel

    Goodbye to 2008 and all that… To 2008 – a pretty rough year all round. I wanted to show you the wallhanging I made for the Festival of Quilts the following year. It’s made from a variety of fabrics, cotton, calico, lace, ribbon, a baby blanket I acidentally felted in the machine. I bleached the black fabric…

  • Fishstock

    Prize for the best named food and music festival goes to yesterday’s Fishstock in sunny Brixham. Well, by the evening it was lashing down but hey at least there wasn’t any mud! Wonderful fish, lovely wine, banging toons and a bit of alfresco knitting. Can’t get better than that.

  • It’s a wrap

    Want some tasteful, personalised, fun wrapping paper? Here’s an idea… Use brown wrapping paper and write your recipient’s name over it (or any message you fancy) using a metallic pen. Add doodles or patterns as you wish – I do stars normally. Wrap as normal. I add a parcel tag label and button using good…