Oil and Thread

After years of flat-dwelling, one of the nicest things about living in a house, with a garden, is the ability to dry clothes on a line.  Th...

A few months ago The Much B elov é d  arrived home with two new pairs of trousers both of them of the long unfinished hem variety. ...

I have sewn all of the three patch rows into nine patch blocks - nine of them in total.  The blocks are all basically the same with a red v...

I have decided to start my sewing year with a quilt.  I've spent quite a while thinking about what I want to do with fabrics I already h...

This is a dress I made around the end of 2014 in readiness for Christmas of that year.  I never got around to blogging about at the time....

I think it is nice, sometimes, to not really know where I am going until I get there.  That is how it was with this piece of work.  I canno...

I can't claim this as my own.  It's a vintage item that The Much Belov éd's mother sent from the US.  I think it is such fun I w...