It has been a productive week so far. A good mix of motivating myself and circumstances giving me a much needed push. Believe me, I need the latter more often than I care to admit. At the weekend I was contacted by a customer who asked if I’d considered offering my Fair Isle Monograms as … More Spider Plants – and Other Memories from my 80’s Childhood
A funny thing happened on Sunday. We had spent the day feeling a little jealous of all of the pictures friends in the UK sent/posted of the snowfall there. Then, late in the evening we looked out of the window and saw this: Although there is usually plenty of snow on Mount Etna during the … More Brrr!
A couple of weeks ago, before the relocation mayhem started, we took a trip to Spain. Mr Stitches’ parents recently moved there after retiring and we thought we would pay them a visit. We flew to Barcelona and stopped there for a couple of days. So much inspired me creatively there that I think I … More A Woman of Letters
This new project is proving to be quite a challenge. I mean this in a good way! For some time I have wanted to try something that took me out of my stitching comfort zone. I think I can safely say “mission accomplished” to that part anyway! Faces and hands! I knew they would be … More Weekend WIP Roundup
On Saturday my little sister got married. On Saturday morning I finally finished the project I had been working on to mark the occasion. Clearly I still continue to cultivate remarkable procrastination skills! I did enjoy working on these two hoops. When I work on these negative space pieces, I love how the shape emerges … More Tying the Knot
My husband and I recently made an agreement that we were not going to moan about the heat. We wanted to come and live in Italy and we knew the summer would be hot so we have no right to whinge. Also, complaining leads to stress and, we reasoned, that just makes you feel even … More Weekend WIP Roundup
It has been a busy time here so I have resorted to taking my stitching with me and doing a little whenever I get the chance. I had a particular reason for wanting to get this little project finished this week. We have been staying with some lovely friends near Treviso who made us so … More Weekend WIP Round Up
We started this week near Lake Garda where we had been staying for the weekend. My parents had come to visit so it was fun to take some time out to explore another region. This part of Italy is much closer to what I think of as classically Italian countryside. The apartment we rented was … More Catching Up
What a scrappy kind of stitching week it has been! Recently it has been all about managing in the pretty intense heat we have been experiencing. Being British, this is not something we commonly need to deal with! We are learning as we go. It also wasn’t the best week for photographs as we have … More Weekend WIP Roundup
As I mentioned in my previous post, I didn’t get much stitching done whilst we were in Sicily. This was primarily because it was was more of a sight seeing, Sicilian three hour lunches and seeing friends kind of holiday. If it had been a lazy, lie on the beach affair, I would have got … More Bright Ideas Lead to my Undoing
Ambrosia Stitches 