Wood-N-Stitches

Wood-n-stitches is a partnership between Jo Roworth and Lorna Simons, two crafty people who love to create, we both love to paint and create things with wood, with fabrics and thread, you will find, decorative wooden objects, quilted/patchwork items, from bags to quilts and allsorts in between, you will find things for the stitchers among you, from fabrics to threads to charts including JAYNIFFA DESIGNS, and many other well known designers,
you will find many things in these pages and if something takes your fancy then why not give us an email
wood-n-stitches@hotmail.com

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

New Ragdolls in stock.....

Take a look at these beauties,
just a selection from the new stock of ragdolls, some are restocks and some are new, but arent they all gorgeous.......
the large ones(pink collection) are £10.95
and the smaller autumn coloured ones are £6.25
if you would like one please message me

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Coming soon....

I have been busy again as always , a mass of bunting, lots of hanging Laura Ashley heart, quilts of course, they are always on the menu, and all while working on my own things, quilts for baby Mia, (two weeks and counting)
my head is buzzing with all the things i need/want to work on, sewing boxes, workshop designs written up, new designs written down lol,
need desperately to find the time to get some done!!but here is a snippet of whats coming soon........
watch this space.........

Sunday, July 3, 2011

I must try harder !

To keep you posted as to what we are upto!
as always my sewing machine has been very busy making goodies, quilts, kiddies aprons were on the menu last week, this week it will be bunting and if i get to them cushions, just need to find those extra hours in the day!
look at these beauties.......gorgeous knitted cupcake pincushions, my display is somewhat depleted now after the weekend, they are scrummy enough to eat!

we have a had a lovely weekend, firstly it was our usual spots of loughborough and melton markets, the sun was out so a lovely day on saturday,
Sunday we spent a gorgeous day in the grounds of Thorpe Arnold church as part of their village festival, it was gorgeous not even a breeze, we were sheltered from the sun under the trees and although we were working it was a gorgeous day

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Last Quilt for this week......

This time a cupcake quilt for a cotbed with a diamond pattern quilting in the centre and a freehand round the border, this is a very popular quilt that i make, always goes down well,

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

More quilts.......

To add to the pot,
these gorgeous and bright baby cotbed quilts with an alphabet design, i loved working on these and as always has some free hand machine quilting but both are quilted differentlyright the next one, watch this space......

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Trying to keep up.........

My poor sewing machine is protesting with all the work it has been doing lately, the other day it was a 14 mtr bunting string,sunday saw 4 quilts going through it, and i have to say my poor hands were protesting after it all too lol, but i am loving it, here is one ready and off to its new home this evening

and a sneaky peak of another one just needs it binding hand sewingthen today when i arrived home i had a parcel waiting with some gorgeous new fabrics , yummy, now what shall i turn them into??If you are out and about this weekend then why not come see us, we will be at our usual haunt of Melton market on Saturday and on Monday its MELTON DAY and we can be found in the market place along with lots of other scrummy stalls.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Crafty weekend and workshop

well its monday and the weekend is over,(insert sad face here) it was FANTASTIC though, had such a fab time (as we always do) and i am so proud of all the ladies that made bags, they are just great, there was a few words muttered during it all and even a few throwing of the bags lol but by the end they were all smiles as they showed off their new bags,
and asking me what are we going to make next?....phew let me get over this one first lol
well done everyone