Brussels Costume and Lace Museum

Following a few days in Germany, our route home left us with a few hours to spare in Brussels in Belgium. Once we had visited lots of chocolate shops and wandered around the Grande Place, we decided to spend an hour or so in a museum. We hadn't made any plans for our time in …

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Fabric of India

Ergh. Monday. My first Monday back at work since before Christmas. It was a reallllly long day but I was given a large box of chocolates so there's that.This week is another muddled one as I will have 2 days off midweek for a family thing so by the time Saturday comes I won't know …

Joanne Potter, textile artist – a Monday Mention!

So today's post is a little bit different as I wanted to do a quick post about a fellow stitcher that I came across online - maybe the Monday Mentions will become a regular thing. We'll have to wait and see! I came across Joanne Potter on Folksy when browsing for gift ideas, and her …

Guthrie & Ghani

During my recent northern excursion my mum and I decided to pay a visit to the small town of Moseley near Birmingham in order to visit Guthrie & Ghani. Run and owned by Lauren Guthrie, 2013 contestant on the first series of BBC 2's Great British Sewing Bee, it started out as an online business with a physical premises …