Stitch This

  • 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.

  • Dum dum da dum, la la la laaaah

    I finished something! You know I love a deadline…the wedding’s tomorrow and here’s the wedding ring cushion for my niece. You like? I went for simple White on White – lovely soft cotton and French knots. I used the idea in Martha Stewart’s Encyclopaedia of Sewing and Fabric Crafts (what a great book) but made…

  • Every cloud…

    It’s blazing sun here and I’m inside contemplating autumn. Little One’s cold has claimed him with a vengeance and he’s sleeping next door and I am lone attendant. The rest of the family are out on the boat. So I sit and knit. This is a new school scarf for Elder. Made from Big Softie…

  • A really practical skill

    I always knew crochet would prove itself as a true life skill. Inspired by this thread on Mumsnet (thankyou Soupdragon)  look what I made tonight… Poo! I am enchanted! Pattern here  

  • Onwards

    This is a shrug. Literally and figuratively. Onwards and upwards. This blog is a stitchy blog and remains so whatever. I have a September deadline for this little project. What d’reckon??!