Stitch This

  • Shiny!

    Something good came out of an overly long wait to see my PD Consultant yesterday, look! Made with some cheapy cheapy yarn (Galaxy) with sequins threaded on it already. Sparkly!I go to a knitting club in Stitch City and last winter everyone seemed to be making handwarmers. This is my offering, Stich Speed.

  • 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…

  • 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…