Stitch This

  • Ruffled

    Saturday night telly killing your brain cells? Make yourself a fancy Sunday top! Here’s what I started with. Pink cotton jumper from Oxfam. Thanks Oxfam. Well it’s too flat isn’t it? So I jushed it up with some bits. I collected some handy habby… Ripped a strip of my liberty print fabric off (ouch) and…

  • Desperate. But not serious.

    Omg. Omg. Omg. I’m a teenager and I feel like screaming. In a good way. Adam Ant live and kicking. Damn he’s good. No nostalgia to taint what are sharp and tight tunes. They may be from far too long ago to admit to but they’re the bomb. No back to the 80’s schtick. All…

  • Slow, slow, shake, shake, slow

    Quick is good, no? We are all so used to striving for speed, efficiency and ASAP in everything. Even in my sheltered world of stitch. Most craft books emphasise the quickness, the ease of their projects. And yet. To be honest, although quick makes are lovely as an option (and I’ve written about some on…

  • House!! Sewing swap Part 2

    I am a proponent of Slow Stitching. I enjoy the journey and always tend towards detail and handwork. Which brings me to the sewing swap I took part in recently on mysewingcircle.com. I just can’t stop myself spending hours and hours on these projects. But I love it. And so to the reveal… Here it…

  • And reasons to be grumpy

    1. Running out of battery power 2. Missing my return connection 3. Having no wine to drown my sorrows in! Oh the humanity