Stitch This

  • Walk the walk…

    Work in progress…inspired by Dillytante’s subversive stitch projects…a present for a good friend who has a birthday soon. I have a few days to make it. Wish me luck!

  • Yo yo cushion – chatty tutorial

    I thought I’d try to give you a description of how I cobbled this little lovely together…it’s become one of my favourites already! I cheated and got the yoyo’s (or Suffolk Puffs) from eBay – they’re vintage 1940’s apparantly – but to make a yoyo is so easy even I do it look . You cut…

  • Market research

    As part of my plan for life I have been toying with the idea of selling stuff I have made, specifically the child’s drawing cushion shown on my make list page  here. Customer emails in their picture and colour preferences, I do the rest, adding in names, dates etc as required. I’ve had positive feedback…

  • Down at the old Bull and Bush…

    Back to work tomorrow. I have been getting used to not being frazzled so am a little worried but on the other hand my lists have been going very well today so I have to have faith, don’t I? Anyway, on to more cheerful stuff. I’ve been clearing the decks so as to reduce stress…

  • Give it away…

    Well, I promised to say a textile style thank you for getting me to 100 followers and now (omg) 10,000 hits…here it is. There’s some  Rowan fabric (about a metre), a FQ of some quirky japanese black cat fabric, about 2 metres of pompom trim, ricrac (of course), velvet ribbons and some coordinating thread and…