Satisfied Customer

Successfully shortened a coat today, embroidered a couple of towels with names - simple but effective  - and another customer collected the cushion covers that I made for her earlier this week.  She was delighted with the results so I hope she will tell her friends about the sewing service of Stitching Stripes .

What a variety of different sewing jobs I have undertaken this week so far.

Many stitches sewn over the past year

Time to get back to my much neglected blog. There have been all sorts of things sewn since the last posting, too many to even think about. But last summer I became the proud owner of a machine embellisher and what fun there is to be had with that. Here are some examples of items I have created with this exciting machine.

Still sewing

How times flies, it is now May and almost half way through. Buisness has been rather good over the past few months, must be cos I can do mending! Successfully complete curtains for a camper van, made a tweed trousers, waistcoat and jacket for a 6month old and shorten an awful lot of trousers since my last post. I have carried out 2 sessions for 2 sisters on 'Getting to know your sewing machine' and they certainly could handle the machine after that. NO more being intimidated by it.

New book

Whilst trawling the charity shops of Taunton on Saturday, I found a copy of Pattern Making and Design by Helen Joseph Armstrong - 2nd Edition and it was at a very affordable price. A book that was on my wish list for sure and so I was one very happy person. Now, Taunton is my favourite place.

Needless to day I was rather quiet for the rest of the day.....