New Bits & Bobs

Evening all, hope you have enjoyed a lovely weekend, we've been hard at work in our temporary new studio (much bigger and can fit two sewing machines in, which is a bonus for preparing our stock for the Country Living Fair in November!) We are getting by on lots of tea and very little sleep, but loving the fast pace of our stock making due to the extra help!

I have two little announcements this week...

Firstly, our popular chickens tea towel is now available in lovely natural cotton! Available here on the website.

And secondly, we've also been adding a couple of new things to the 'bits & bobs' page, including this lovely vintage cotton braid, in French blue and white. We've decided it would be perfect for sewing projects, using around your home and even wrapping presents! Plus it's only £2.50 for 3 metres, so we're quite fond of it!

Pashley Cycles...

I don't know where I've been hiding recently but only last week (via Twitter) I discovered the bicycle brand Pashley. Beautiful, classic, vintage-styled bicycles, in a range of pretty colours, perfect for cycling round towns and cities and even pulling an ice-cream cart...

With wonderful names such as Princess Sovereign and Poppy (Pastel Blue) I know what I will be putting on my birthday list this year...

it runs in the family...

Whilst rooting around under her bed yesterday my mum found a tea cosy made by my grandmother, depicting my dad's old Beetle! I never met my granny but she was apparently a lot like me and delighted in sewing, so I thought it only apt to show you the infamous and well-loved 'Beetle tea cosy'. It is a joy for me to see, as it is part of my family's sewing history and shows that stitch and tea cosy design in particular really does run in the family :)
My granny would often buy a piece of fabric on the way home from work and whip it up into a skirt to wear out in the evening - I only wish I was that good at making clothes!

Above: my new floral tea cups tea cosy. Below: a few of my cosies hanging behind my granny's vintage Beetle tea cosy, a little threadbare in places from years of love and use... x