HEllo and Welcome to my sewing room…..I hope you will pop by often…..it’s a busy place. ALL MY DESIGNS HAVE LITERARY, TRAVEL OR HISTORICAL THEMES PLUS LOTS OF CHIT CHAT ABOUT SEWING STUFF AND MY DRESSMAKING ENDEAVOURS.
JOURNAL 2025
January : Welcome 2025! A new year is here and as always it’s a time for a reset. I love planning projects and challenging myself to reach new goals. For this year my initial ideas are:
* Learn to knit socks (with the idea of giving each member of my family a hand knitted pair next Christmas.
* Try out Swiss darning on fine knitted garments using the silk based yarn I bought at the Knitting & Stitching show.
* Make an embroidered jacket.
* Finish my Kimono quilt.
Well that seems enough to keep me busy over the winter months and I look forward to sharing my endeavours with you. Meanwhile wishing you all good things for the year ahead and thank you for visiting my little patch of needlework. Ruby x
Living in West Yorkshire, the landscape is peppered with old mill buildings that tell the story of our industrial past. Some of these mills are vast affairs and reflect the huge scale of the cloth industry in this region. Sadly it is all long gone and while many of the old mills have been restored and repurposed, many also stand deserted and decaying. Not long after we came to this area, I came across these old mill bobbins and I loved how tactile they are, steeped in the history of wool production and heralding a day when we produced high quality cloth here in the north.