Forgotten Stitches

Sneak Peak

2012-02-22T19:00:00.001Z

Miss Clara Moonbeam

A sneaky peak at a almost half finished Miss Clara Moonbeam... I will have more very soon.

Valentines Greetings

2012-02-14T11:48:00.002Z

A photo a day keeps the mind at play

2012-02-04T12:38:00.000Z

I can't help myself when it comes to music sheets... I'll quite happily go through them for hours. the graphics they used were outstanding!

Sail

2012-02-01T13:44:00.000Z

Having a wee sale in February in the etsy shop... if you use the code FORTHELOVEOF at the checkout you'll receive 15% off anything you purchase!

Favourite finds in the street

2012-01-23T23:54:00.001Z

This darling dear machine was left in the street for the offering 2 years back... how could i resist such a beauty like her? How I do love a street find

A photo a day keeps the mind at play

2012-01-19T20:40:00.000Z

This year I plan to make more jellies... jelly moulds are just wonderful at times!

A photo a day keeps the mind at play

2012-01-16T23:50:00.002Z

A photo a day keeps the mind at play

2012-01-12T17:18:00.002Z

My best 50p spent at a jumble sale... I haven't found out her name yet, but how I love her so. I feel I need a jolly good jumble soon, I'm having withdrawal symptoms.

Arrow through my tender hearts

2012-01-10T12:53:00.000Z

I hadn't used my fingers for leather sewing for at least a few weeks... my how tender they are

Dolores Darling

2012-01-08T21:42:00.000Z

After heading to all the festive shows last year, Dolores is finally up on the shop!

Peckham Foxes

2012-01-08T16:14:00.000Z

Brooches coming to the etsy shop soon..

Monty

2012-01-05T16:01:00.001Z

Another circus dog to join the troop..

2012-01-01T01:05:00.003Z

Very excited by all the projects coming up in the next coming days, weeks and months and so forth..

New Years Doll

2012-01-01T00:58:00.000Z

I couldn't have thought of a better way to start a New Years for me, than with a needle in hand! A sneaky peak at my new years eve lady...

Good Luck

2011-12-31T17:45:00.000Z

Wishing you all a very happy and prosperous new year!! What a wonderful year we'll have in store ... I can't wait!

x x x

A photo a day keeps the mind at play

2011-12-29T23:24:00.000Z

Down in the shadows

2011-12-29T23:13:00.000Z

A sneaky peak at my mr half finished fox...

A photo a day keeps the mind at play

2011-12-28T15:10:00.000Z

Hello Sailor

I love

2011-12-28T00:36:00.000Z

Violet May

A lovely wee shop on etsy... this lady has a wonderful whimsical eye!

A photo a day keeps the mind at play

2011-12-21T22:54:00.003Z

Greyhound

Time on my hands

2011-12-21T17:57:00.001Z

Ahh, what a long last couple of months... crazy sewing and getting ready for the festive rush! And now I am home with time on my hands - time for dusting the trinket shelves, which had been very much over due. In order of height -

top three shelves

two down

six and seven

bottom eight

I just adore their rickety splendor. We were given them by a fellow called Dick from freecycle.. His father ( who designed the Aeroplane safety shoot) made them in the 1930s, and they'd since been traveling here there and everywhere, when Dick moved to Camberwell they didn't fit in his new home and so he kindly offered them up! They are now one of my favourite pieces.

A photo a day keeps the mind at play

2011-12-17T22:00:00.001Z

Anchors have always inspired me... I'm very much drawn to them. I have a urge to sew more in the next coming months. A perfect love token for valentines.

A pooch with it all

2011-12-15T18:50:00.000Z

Another custom pooch but with accessories... heading up north for a lucky gal for christmas time!

Ballroom Bootfair

2011-12-15T10:26:00.000Z

Just found out I'll be we'll be at the Ballroom Bootfair at the Ivy House on Sunday... It'll be our last show for this year and it's so close to home, I really can't wait! I'll be bringing a selection of vintage trinkets too!

Mini Mr Marlow

2011-12-14T17:03:00.001Z

Custom Order of a mini Mr Marlow

A photo a day keeps the mind at play

2011-12-12T19:25:00.000Z

The perfect festive picture...music, wine, and a tree!

Shop Closed

2011-12-11T08:50:00.001Z

While I'm away at Crafty Fox Market, you'll find the etsy shop is rather spare. Will be back open for business later this evening... new stock with be be popping up this next coming week too!

We Make London Xmas fair

2011-12-10T18:23:00.000Z

A terrible photo of my stall at the we make Christmas Fair... Don't forget to pop by the Crafty Fox Market tomorrow...we'll be there from 11.00am till 5.00pm. Very much looking forward to it all!

A photo a day keeps the mind at play... for yesterday

2011-12-08T12:23:00.000Z

A vomit of colour

Getting ready for stalls is always so darn hard... I have so many ideas that I love to sew up. However putting it all together looks like someone ate all my work and threw it all up on a table! And theres still more to put on the table...goodness me.

Fawn issues

2011-12-07T22:07:00.000Z

I'm having fawn issues... these little lovelies take over a day to sew up, and thats just the little ones in felt! Let along any of the other sizes I do or the leather ones. Taking home just £35.00 for one of the wee felt ones isn't enough for a daily wage... with that and the fact I don't charge for materials yet, I am going to have to charge just that little bit more. £42.00... not that much more, I'm still cheap for a days wage, but it'll make me that little bit more happier. I do so very much hope you'll understand.

Rebekah x

Designers Makers Market on the 17th of December

2011-12-07T08:27:00.001Z

My dear lovelies, our last market day of this year will be at Old Spitalfields Market on the 17th with the wonderful Designers Makers Market... A grand old day will be had and I'll be bring a few new friends! Pop down and say hello for a mince pie....

A photo a day keeps the mind at play

2011-12-07T00:02:00.000Z

Evie and Mona

A photo a day keeps the mind at play

2011-12-05T22:14:00.000Z

Evie

New dolly range coming to shows this weekend...

A photo a day keeps the mind at play x 3

2011-12-04T20:35:00.000Z

The Tea Train

A wonderful old train near Loch Ard... unfortunately there wasn't a soul to be seen.

I wish I had flowers everyday

A is for Album

A photo a day keeps the mind at play

2011-12-02T01:39:00.000Z

Windmill in spring

Although, it is the first day of winter today, I can't help but think of spring....

A photo a day keeps the mind at play

2011-11-30T16:28:00.000Z

thinking about gardens

A photo a day keeps the mind at play

2011-11-29T18:39:00.000Z

in a world of my own

More trinkets... the naked lady used to belong to my grandmother who kept it in a locked glass cabinet, I remember every time we popped up to visit her I would gaze at it happily for hours. Her features are just wonderful.

A photo a day keeps the mind at play

2011-11-28T12:52:00.000Z

Postcards

If you didn't already know, I'm totally obsessed with Victorian and Edwardian Postcards... A snippet from my forever growing bedroom wall.

New Items

2011-11-28T12:44:00.001Z

I'll be updating my etsy shop all of this week.... please stay tuned!

We Make London at the BAC

2011-11-28T12:03:00.001Z

We'll be joining the ladies from We make London at the rather dashing Battersea Arts Centre on the 10th of December.... with 80 + stalls http://wemakelondon.blogspot.com/p/christmas-fair-designers.html they'll certainly be something for everyone! Theres also a whole host of other things going on throughout the day. I'll be show casing collections of new wares... it would be lovely if you popped by and said hello!

Crafty Fox

2011-11-27T18:49:00.000Z

I'm so pleased to say we will be here on the 11th of December with the utter delightful Crafty Fox fellows... A wonderful host of other designers will be there too. A perfect day out to do some christmas shopping!

A photo a day keeps the mind at play

2011-11-27T18:44:00.000Z

Who couldn't love music sheets?

A photo a day keeps the mind at play

2011-11-26T20:22:00.000Z

Home Sweet Home

I absolutely love trinkets... and can't help filling my home with them. This is one of my favourites, a 1930s glass cottage perfume bottle. What a marvellous novelty.

A photo a day keeps the mind at play

2011-11-25T15:17:00.000Z

I'm utterly terrible at updating this blog... so have decided to update at least one photo a day.

Me and Mr Moon

This little lady lives on one of the shelves in the workroom

She keeps all the needlecraft books in shape.

Rita Mae

2011-10-03T00:14:00.003+01:00

My latest lady

Rita Mae stands at 21 inches in height
Has a light wire frame body to give some structure & bend
A rayon 1930s hanky makes up her blouse with hidden poppers down the front. Her jeans were made out of a pair of jeans kindly donated by my other half' & also have hidden poppers down the back seam. Red wool, hessian and leather make up her wedges...and a red felt handbag completes her look.

Of course no outfit is complete without underwear...

Mr Marlow the Circus Dog

2011-09-18T22:39:00.001+01:00

If you went down to the river in the last two days

2011-09-12T19:57:00.000+01:00

You might of come across the Crafty Fox Market nestled in between the trees near the Tate Modern as part of the Craft Trail at this years Thames Festival. A whole weekend packed for of music, arts and crafts, dances, and devilish delights. I'm afraid I didn't get to wonder too far from around my pitch as the troublesome wind and I didn't really see eye to eye.. But have to say it was lovely to properly meet some fellow other like minder designers.

Through the wind, sun, rain and rainbows fun was had by all... Sinead and Stephan are truly lovely fellows, I can't thank them enough for having me.

Night time was the right time for just reminiscing

Thames Festival

2011-09-07T20:32:00.001+01:00

Map illustration by Mike Hall

Forgotten Stitches will be here on both Saturday and Sunday hidden in and around in the trees with the wonderful Crafty Fox as part of the Craft Trail... There will also be a grand whole host of other splendid designers and craft collectives along the path!

Do pop down and say hello x

Latest Lady

2011-08-10T22:34:00.002+01:00

20th of August

2011-08-07T18:07:00.000+01:00

We'll be here on the 20th, do pop by and say hello... tasty food, wonderful vintage finds, screen printing, coffee and cocktails.

fred

2011-08-02T22:35:00.000+01:00

Hearts Dangle on Bow Brooch

2011-08-02T22:14:00.001+01:00

Suede Bells Brooch

2011-08-02T21:35:00.001+01:00

Nancy

2011-07-26T20:40:00.002+01:00

Treasures of last week

2011-07-22T12:34:00.000+01:00

The other week I was rather lucky to find a haul of treasures.. two pairs of rather grand 1940s chestnut brown walking shoes ( will be perfect for winter)... also in the same lot a collection of stunning patterns and pattern magazines -

I also have say the free patterns were intact...unheard of really.

And also

2011-07-05T21:41:00.000+01:00

Here -

Join us at the charmful Hoxton town hall (fabulous Victorian Grade II*listed music hall) for fabulous finds and then carry on the evening with a good old Cockney Sing-along...

Street party with Angel Shed on Islington Green

2011-07-05T21:33:00.001+01:00

We will be here on the 16th of July... pop down and say hello!

Ruby

2011-07-05T20:18:00.000+01:00

One of the latest fawns...

Sewn using red and off cream and black suede leather...

worth all the blood, sweat and tears.

We Make London Pop Up Shop

2011-07-04T10:41:00.002+01:00

Forgotten Stitches will be here all week long.... pop in and say hello! You could follow it by a lovely walk on the heath and then some tea and cake at Louis, which looks utterly deadly...

Louis, Hampstead, NW3, a photo by Ewan-M on Flickr.

Old Cushions and Beadwork

2011-06-04T14:45:00.000+01:00

Texas Longhorns

2011-06-04T14:40:00.000+01:00

Very early piece of work...

Castanets brooch

2011-06-04T14:35:00.000+01:00

2011-05-25T01:29:00.000+01:00

The lovely ladies of Craft Guerrilla are at it again and are offering 6 designers/makers the chance to appear at this years Knitting & Stitching Show.... It's such a wonderful opportunity. from the fellows you meet from all walks of life, to the feedback you'll receive. It truly is some wonderful 4 days. I almost wish I could do it all again. Please check out their blog Craft Guerrilla for more info....

Workbasket

2011-05-25T00:27:00.000+01:00

Felt Cherry Blossoms on a vintage workbasket...

Fifi Red Fawn

2011-05-25T00:10:00.000+01:00

Dear Fifi the tallest of the fawns

Lilli

2011-05-24T23:29:00.001+01:00

This is dear Lilli... She stands at 65cm in height. Made from a cream piece of felt and embroidered details. Her platform shoes are made out of green snake leather...her blouse an old silk scarf and her skirt is made out of red wool skirt I used to wear.

After journeys here and there (and perhaps too many late nights...she is a bit of a stopout) she's laddered her stockings.

Standing in her satin smalls... and looking quite haughty.

Lilli has the tiniest of waists and wonderful hips... She is certainly a perfect hourglass, the lucky gal.

Perhaps, you may want a doll like our Lilli? It would be lovely to take requests...

2011-05-22T13:46:00.001+01:00

Brown Fawn

Needles and Cotton

2011-05-22T13:31:00.003+01:00

A favourite old needle case

Cherries

2011-05-03T23:25:00.001+01:00

Cherry Necklaces... perfect for summer picnics

2011-05-03T23:23:00.001+01:00

ANEMONE NECKLACE

Getting ready for the Crafty Fox Pop Up Market

2011-04-15T12:01:00.000+01:00

2011-03-22T15:39:00.001Z

At long last new items finally making their way to etsy

Victorian Postcard Collection

2010-10-16T20:56:00.001+01:00

Pansies for Thoughts

Violets & Swallow Valentine

Gold Leather Clovers and Heart

Doves and Horseshoe

Forget Me Not Valentine Greeting

I would love to take commissions on the Victorian Postcard Collection - perhaps you have a favourite card you would like to see recreated or even reinterpreted with a personalised message at the back.

Just like a real postcard!

Please feel free to contact me with any requests.

Knitting and Stitching Show London 2010

2010-10-16T20:39:00.000+01:00

I won the opportunity to exhibit at The Knitting and Stitching Show held at Alexandra Palace at the beginning of October, courtesy of the lovely ladies at Craft Guerrilla.

Before this I had never exhibited at a craft-focused event, with only a pair of vintage fairs to my name. I was hoping the show would be a great platform to showcase my work.

I was utterly overwhelmed with the feedback I received, from babies to 92 year olds, and was particularly touched when, having seen my work, many people ended up sitting down to recount some of their memories.

I met some lovely fellow designers at the show, and feel extremely grateful to everyone I met for making it such a wonderful four days.