SLIKstitches

 As previously mentioned I don't have the technical skills to understand what is expected of me to keep my blog here: there seems to be a lot of flaffing around with Google Workspace which I don...

http://slikstitches.com/2022/03/2022-march.html

 I think Google may be about to start charging me for my blog, so I may move to a free version - and that means a new name! I have transferred the last six years of blog posts to what may be a...

http://slikstitches.com/2022/02/important-notice.html

 A bit of a round up of what I've been doing!! A tiny hand sewing project for on the train the other day: this will go on a second version of "my Small World" that Jackie is making and that I ...

http://slikstitches.com/2022/02/2022-week-5.html

So we start a new year with a new blog post - and some actual finishes!!!! None were quite as smooth as they should have been though! The Janet Claire sludge fabrics got added to a fleece bac...

http://slikstitches.com/2022/01/2022-week-2.html

Happy New Year to all I must have been a good girl in 2021 as I was very spoiled at Christmas: My little gang of Ginger Fans in the villages outdid themselves!  Look at the awesome Gingers I...

http://slikstitches.com/2021/12/2021-week-52.html

 Are you ready for Christmas???  I'm not - the sewing room is full of have finished projects and I dont even know who is coming over, or when! People have been sending me pics of my tree deco...

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Still playing catch up on blog posts  I made a whole load of Countdown to Christmas Gingers for little people  We had a bust Crafty Church at the end of November: back in the church as t...

http://slikstitches.com/2021/12/2021-week-50.html

 We had a lovely session at Richmond and Kew quilters . . . . fusion crochet!  Starting with a fabric square (with a substantial seam allowance): add blanket stitch and then crochet onto the bl...

http://slikstitches.com/2021/12/2021-week-47-part-2.html

 Hmmm, no post for a month 😱 My excuse has been that I've been busy, busy and ill, ill, too ill to care about being busy and now busy again, with a hint of being ill!  At least I haven't h...

http://slikstitches.com/2021/11/2021-week-47.html

I had an Ikea blanket that I turned into a sort of shawl ( bolded in half to make shoulders and cut up the front so I could throw one front panel over my shoulder).  It was a place that I could ...

http://slikstitches.com/2021/10/2021-week-43.html

We actually managed to get away for a family holiday!  6 of us went to Center Parcs.  We did loads of activities (tennis, badminton, squash, kayaking, walking, cycling) and a load of eating, bu...

http://slikstitches.com/2021/10/2021-week-42.html

 I think I've cracked it! Use a suitably sized plate to mark a circle and cut out of fabric, (fussy cut if desired or appropriate) Cut circle in half and add a piece between the two halves t...

http://slikstitches.com/2021/10/2021-week-41-semi-circular-pouch.html

I like to chop and change my zips - sometimes I will have contrasting sides to the zip, and sometime I will add a different coloured zip pull, or maybe add more than one. Here is how: (you need...

http://slikstitches.com/2021/10/2021-week-40-changing-or-adding-zip-pull.html

 These are some of the photos from the making last weekend with Jackie: boxy pouches and semi circular ones and a vinyl one for crochet and knitting markers A frined / ginger fan rece...

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This week showcases holidays and stuff - yes: for my family it was a real holiday: paperwork to the nth degree and Covid tests then a plane to Malta where they had a great time I went t...

http://slikstitches.com/2021/09/2021-week-38.html

I seem to be in a Necklace State of Mind!   Carrying on from the shwe shwe necklace I made a few weeks ago there was rope left over so  . . . I made another And there was some MORE left...

http://slikstitches.com/2021/09/2021-week-37.html

 This has felt like a 'normal week - largely because Chertsey Museum was back for the first time in 18 months!!!  Woohoo!!!! Limited numbers and only 2 to a table, but we were back . . .  an...

http://slikstitches.com/2021/09/2021-week-35.html

 A few Gingers this week : I was asked to do one as a mascot for the local lunch club (they already have one for their coffee morning) National Photography week came and went so a Ginger su...

http://slikstitches.com/2021/08/2021-week-33.html

Hello lovely people in Blogland!  I seem to have quite a few finishes and WIPs for you today (you might even thinkthe to-be-done pile has shrunk but you would be wrong!!) I was persuaded to th...

http://slikstitches.com/2021/08/2021-week-32.html

 How is it August already??? Next month one of our two village summer fairs will be returning after two years - the theme is Hatland so I thought a ginger with lots of hats was a good way to w...

http://slikstitches.com/2021/08/2021-week-31.html

I watched a great documentary on Craftivism (see this wiki article ) and wanted to be part of it in alow key way  My take on Craftivism involves (of course) Gingers 20th April: Happy Earth D...

http://slikstitches.com/2021/07/2021-week-28-craftivism.html

 Not much crafting this week, but a trip out, someone else's yarn bombing and a few gingers! On the drive to mother-in-law's I pass this letterbox with a knitted farm scene on top of it - each...

http://slikstitches.com/2021/08/2021-week-29.html

Sorry - photo overload . . . you have been warned! I know this is mostly a crafty blog - but I did make this gorgeous girl!!!! #2 daughter is still best friends with three girls she met a...

http://slikstitches.com/2021/07/2021-week-26.html

MAGIC, MUNCHKINS AND GINGERS! My old Boss has been training to be a Methodist minister and his ordination was held last weekend.  Stupid Covid prevented us attending in person but I was able t...

http://slikstitches.com/2021/06/2021-week-25.html

 My gosh it's nearly half way through the year!  How did that happen??? Not much creating this week, as often seems to be the case! I did get a bumper load of hexies tacked And the ar...

http://slikstitches.com/2021/06/2021-week-23.html