Stitch This

  • Part 2

    Look what I can see. Sometimes commuting isn’t so bad.

  • Survival in the City

    To First Great Western’s 06.30 to London – blurgh! School term started yesterday for Elder (all OK) and mine starts today. Wow, getting up was ‘interesting’. So, to speed along the journey I thought I’d publish my train survival guide. Any suggestions to enhance the commute experience will be road(track?) tested and reported back on……

  • It’s a wrap

    Want some tasteful, personalised, fun wrapping paper? Here’s an idea… Use brown wrapping paper and write your recipient’s name over it (or any message you fancy) using a metallic pen. Add doodles or patterns as you wish – I do stars normally. Wrap as normal. I add a parcel tag label and button using good…

  • Living in a box

    This is not a winge. Honest. More an observation. The wedding was lovely. My Boys were fab. My feet are wrecked (new shoes). The cushion did it’s job! And yet. I found it so much harder to connect. To talk to family and friends. Why? Is it the PD or am I just knackered? I’m…

  • Dum dum da dum, la la la laaaah

    I finished something! You know I love a deadline…the wedding’s tomorrow and here’s the wedding ring cushion for my niece. You like? I went for simple White on White – lovely soft cotton and French knots. I used the idea in Martha Stewart’s Encyclopaedia of Sewing and Fabric Crafts (what a great book) but made…