Stitch This

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…