Now there are six

Now there are six squares. Well, today has been a success, because I stitched the ‘y’, and because I’ve tweaked my routine, I worked my morning and started it the way I wanted. No dilly dallying today. So a nice bright yellow ‘y’ to celebrate. Experts in time management, recommend celebrating small wins. Sowhen you’ve

X marks the spot

X marks the spot of competing patterns, a metaphor for my day. I originally picked out a bright egg yellow ‘n’, then noticed that it would spell ‘no’.  X  to make up a random selection of letters, like a sight test chart. X pairs with ‘O’, a sign of endearment, in an email or letter.

Day 4 #100 Day Result

I am switching my routine, to stitch first and then do yoga, because I had a strange feeling in my head yesterday after I posted on the blog. The crown of my head felt weird, I couldn’t get out of that place, involved with words, technology, stuck the virtual space of my head and the

‘h’ is for haberdashery

  ‘h’ was my first choice letter today and provided todays title. So yesterday (Day 2) I nipped Into town to replenish supplies.  MacCulloch and Wallis and John Lewis were my destinations. As I turned left into Dering Street, it was looking decidedly quiet, maybe because there is major cross rail works going on ,

Letter ‘f’

The letter ‘f’ picked at random and kept for its pale blue as light as todays sky. The nearly vintage 80’s furnishing print is in a greyish palette of pink and purples/blues. Not too happy with the overall effect of the blue and the green thread,  I prefer yesterday’s brighter colours and contrast. Here come

Trying again

I have one hundred 3″ cloth squares in various colours and a number of random letters left over from another project. Each day I will stitch one letter to one square and post it on Instagram and blog about the process here. This is to get into a habit of making and to make a

Today’s truth

Hand of truth (c) Maggie Winnall todays truth admits to the perennial challenge : too much stuff in the studio. I create a wide enough gap on the table to write and draw, there is a path in and out, but the rest is chock full so no sewing at all.

15 Minutes

A new year begins, a welcome, an invitation to to each new day, for hopes and plans for the year ahead. In 2015 I learned the power of 15 minutes – 15 minutes of de cluttering a day, 15 minutes of  daily yoga. Doing things in small pockets of time regularly makes a difference. I

Rose Tinted World

  A rose tinted world stitched in the secret garden, a glorious afternoon spent listening in to life. A squirrel rummaging in the bin, airplanes coursing , parakeets squawking, a squabble of crows swooped in . Then  calls and cries of children from the nearby paddling pool echoed all around, zoo like, alongside murmurs of hushed