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Quilter-couching

You probably know couching is one of my favourite techniques, and I’m currently conducting an experiment to see how effectively couching might substitute for quilting. I don’t often get as much time as I’d like for my own work but I’ve been squeezing in an hour here and there on this little quilt that began…

May 2026 daily stitching

We’ve already got one foot in June, but here’s how May shaped up: Thirty-one handfuls of time, caught and stitched down before they could get away. Some of the May stitching is in my YouTube May playlist, including the little wreath for May Day: The little tree is also on YouTube and is quite easy…

Now playing

If you read the comments section of my last post, you will have seen the dilemma of having miniature vinyl LPs with nothing to play them on. Had to remedy that, of course. I had a look online for vintage portable record players – actually I used to have one very similar myself, it went…

Shrinking

Sometimes life feels too big, and on these occasions I like to focus on something very small, and something completely different from stitching or mixed media art. Something that’s just for me and nothing to do with work or accomplishing anything. You may remember the little twelfth-scale Sid Cooke shop kit I started last year.…

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