Stitch This

  • Hey! Finito!

    I finished my Scarf of Doom! Then I tarted it up. With a button flower I’d made earlier. The button fell off my slipper and the yarn was from my stash. No pence. Fab. And fun. I finished it while playing in the garden with Little One. Knitting on the hoof. Thanks to deadly Knitshade…

  • 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…

  • Tick!

    I held my nerve. Let’s hope Elder’s teachers like their felty flowers. I do.

  • Cushion the effect

    I do like it when a plan comes together. Even when that plan is, shall we say hastily formed. Oh alright then, positively cobbled together. Other Half is out tonight so I determined to tidy up the workshop spare room. I told you I live close to the edge. Of course, I started rediscovering some of…

  • Tag it!

    I’ve been asked how I made the tags I posted yesterday. It’s more a shopping list tbh. I got plain luggage tags from our local stationers – 60p for 10 – bargain. The heart stamps are clear acrylic stamps from Hobbycraft. I know, it’s like B&Q but I was exploring our new one. The stamps…