This is a double helping of Sunday Sevens as I didn’t get chance to post last week. Thanks to Nat at Threads & Bobbins for dreaming it up.

1. Started watching the Great British Sewing Bee – why is it on so late? I record it for The Boys to watch the next day.

2. We had coffee and croissants at our favourite local bakery come café.

3. This sign was outside a pub in a neighbouring village and made me smile.

4. I bought Tilda’s latest book thinking it might provide inspiration for sewing projects for my students.

5. I made this from the book but decided it would be too fiddly for small fingers.

6. Another local café – this is the lovely rustic back room through which you pass to get to the garden at the rear.


7. A pretty corner of the garden in which we sat to drink our coffee.

8. These arrived – I am now an official stockist of Tilly & The Buttons patterns! I’m working on workshop dates at the moment.

9. We went to John Lewis in Kingston while we were in London but I wasn’t tempted by anything.

10. One day it was hot enough to sunbathe…..

11. …..the next, it was peeing down and cold enough to light the fire again!

12. Mint cuttings were re-potted for the school fair – the limit of my gardening talents.

13. I picked the first of the elderflowers to make some cordial, also for the school fair as it went down so well last year.

14. Family selfie at the local pub as our last meal before we headed off to Spain!