Stitch This

  • Buttons for breakfast

    The mark of obsession. Making covered buttons at the breakfast table because I wanted to close my cardigan up! Lovely ribbon from VV Rouloux. Yum!

  • Chosen!

      Choose-day part 2. This is My Quilt Top. I started it about 8 or 9 years ago and it’s completely stitched by hand. All of it. It took ages, a real labour of love. Now it needs quilting. I thoug I’d start CHoose-days with a bang. I choose to actually get this thing sandwiched…

  • Choose-day

    Life is about choices, no? Tuesday’s are now Choose-days for me. I’ll choose to do one life-enhancing thing each week. Well, I’ll try. I might even save a cat in the process.

  • Same old same old

    Just a quickie today. It’s our first day back at school and Elder went without a wimper (phew) although there were a few excellent arguments going on in the playground by other, possibly more spirited young, desperate to avoid their lessons. Little and I have had our walk and customary hot chocolate with a very…

  • I wrote that!

    So, the recipe book. Or should I say The Recipe Book. I thought you’d like to see it in the flesh as it were. I used old family shots together with my pics of quilts and stitchy goodness. Then I chose the recipes that had memories or interesting phrases (wrap yr brandy snap round a…