STITCHWORKS

The Squared Circle Group on Flickr is fun. Stitched circles don't really fit neatly, but no worry as someone has started a group for tho...

Over the next academic year I am going to attend two workshops a term at a local college, a ‘Creative Textile’ workshop. I think the ide...

Some of you may remember that not long ago I won a virtual voucher from Gerdiary to use in her shop, I’ve used it now to purchase a pack ...

I am really pleased this year to have my book accepted for the’ We Love Your Books Exhibition’; this is especially so as my book on the clo...

Some ideas for making interesting papers to stitch, for journaling or just for fun using recycled papers, and minimum resources. You wi...

Jackie Bowcott Originally uploaded by rejectamenta My sketchbook spread selected for the 'We Love Your Books Exhibition'. See some...

I must admit that I have never really been inspired by the idea of journaling, I think because of recent times the shops have been full o...

As a Gemini I have just had a birthday, and a new camera. I had become so used to the ‘old’ one that it is taking some getting used to; the...

Melanie Testa is offering free tutorials this month and the first is this little pen/pencil case. As I had my recently dyed, stencilled mat...

As you see, I have continued working on the Noughts and Crosses piece. I found a 'double fly stitch' which I have never heard of ...

I went to a very special book shop in Alresford just before the visit to my friends and decided that a different present would be to make t...

At the weekend I had a visit to Cirencester which is in  the Cotswolds where every house is built with a golden colour stone and is general...

I thought the idea of leaves had come from nowhere particular, but had forgotten that I had been stitching some leaves in a sketch book o...