Stitch This

  • Put your kisses down

    Put your kisses down

    Ever feel like you’ve taken a corner too fast, metaphorically, that you’re teetering on the brink? Hands up most working mothers. I’m sure non-working (non wage earning, lets face it, no one is non working) mothers would too but I can’t speak from first hand experience we had our bedtime business club tonight and I…

  • Maggie May

    Maggie May

    Today I joined our local quilt group. Again. And I met a friend of my mother. Maggie Davies is a quilting celebrity now – look at her beautiful handiwork here and below. My mother and she started quilting together back in the 80’s and I have the quilt they worked on together. There’s something special…

  • Milestone

    Milestone

    No sooner have I posted about whacky races but another first in Elder’s development. He has been loving the literary ahem, delights of Fleabag Monkeyface which we have been reading at bedtime.. Tonight he finally grasped that he could sit in bed and read it himself!! Yay!! He even came downstairs and said that he…

  • Pick and mix

    Pick and mix

        You know, I have always been in Praise of Slow. Normally it’s in the context of crafty ditherings but it can also be re life choices and similar trivia. I was made redundant almost 5 months ago. I had Little One almost three years ago. I was dx 5 years ago. Yep, it’s…

  • Handmade half term

    Chips off the old block, my boys Elder has been trying his hand at yarn bombing in the back garden. Minimalist but quite cool? And both of them have been doing a bit of stitching – do you like the Halloween cushions? I helped little one with the spider!