Hello lovely readers, Wishing you a very happy Christmas and holiday season if you celebrate it. I hope you find time to relax, read, knit (if that's your thing) and hang out with friends and family.  Thank you for visiting my blog this year. See you back here again in January! Lots of love, Melissa…

Hello! I hope you're enjoying this special time of year and it hasn't been too hectic where you are. I've been staying up far too late working on projects of various kinds, as i seem to have a strange sort of extra energy as the days get longer and warmer. I'm sure it will crash…

Hello! I hope the end of the calendar is going smoothly for you and yours. It always feels a bit frantic in December, doesn't it? I've been doing my best to distract myself from the usual anxiety brought on by an extra-busy schedule and finishing work projects, etc by making more. I don't know if…

It's been a week of hand-sewing projects here, as I get another set of embroidered project bags made for Loop in London. I've been quite slow with this batch, but I hope to post them off this week.  Another hand-sewn project I worked on recently was the little cat you can see in the second…