A Month in Snapshot

We're in May already!  Wow! Where is this year going?  We've had a busy month in the shop, with our classes starting again and lots of new stock winging it's way to us.  We got ourselves a shiny red sack barrow to cart our post to the post office, so I think you guys have been busy sewing up a storm too!  In snapshot... Continue reading →

Wow, April already!  March was nuts here at Backstitch.  We had a whole lot going on and we had some exciting times.  As well as masses of new stock coming in we took Backstitch out on the road to the Duxford Quilt Festival, and had our first birthday party in the shop. Continue reading →

Yesterday it suddenly dawned on me that we had got through February... Hooray!  I find the hardest months February and April... it's all weather related: February is cold and April is rainy.  So, as far as I'm concerned, it is officially spring and we now deserve some milder days with glimpses of young tender shoots peaking up. Continue reading →

Last year was massive for Backstitch.  We brought in whole new categories of thread, haberdashery, tools and notions, and kits.  We opened a real life actual shop - our gorgeous haberdashery is just outside Cambridge - and we started running all sorts of sewing classes in dressmaking, quilting, embroidery and more. I'm pretty confident that 2015 is going to be just as big.  We have lots of ideas forming, not least a big plan to get much more active on this blog!  One thing I want to do regularly is 'A Month In Snapshot' of life at Backstitch.  Shall we see how the first pans out?! Continue reading →