Stitch This

  • Chop!!

    I got bored tonight so out came the scissors. And chop! This is a long t shirt from Asos with lace trimming and crochet collar and it looks blardy awful on me. So scissors were the only option. Here’s the collar. Needs some umph. So let’s play…. I cut a patch from the scraps, cut…

  • What am I like?

    Stitchy Towers has been a little subdued recently due to a preponderance of ‘going to Heaven parties’. That, together with a discussion last night at knitting club on why people blog got me thinking. The cogs creaked into action as follows. Why blog? To have a diary. Who for? Me, yes. My boys? yes I…

  • Monday meanderings

    No actual brainpower today, just some snaps of vintage stuff I have stashed around the place. Hoarder, moi?!

  • Shoestring chic

    As the wonderful Jean Kerr once wrote ‘I buy underpants like others buy gin, wildly, recklessly….’ I am the same with craft books. My latest is ‘Chic on a Shoestring’ by Mary Jane Baxter. Here she is. However, for the first time I thought I’d write a review. This way I will have a record…

  • Kindness

    Toddlerdom is tough. For everyone. For every gurgle of joy there’s the chance of a massive strop. And that’s just me. Gosh Little One has a heck of a temper! Today was testing shall we say. Elder put it beautifully when he told me tonight that “H interrupts me being kind” – I’m lucky I’ve…