Featured In: Sew Hip August Issue

As you may know, I write the Back page column, called Musings, in Sew Hip magazine. First up was August issue, and out today is September. So just in case you missed your August copy, here it is!

We also have a lovely feature in Sew Hip's latest issue - the September issue, which IS out on the newsstands now, so if you fancy a peek at the daughters doing sewing in my workroom, and other cheeky close-ups of work at large, then hotfoot it to yer nearest Noozagent and grab a copy.

And don't forget to read the back page too - it's about your workroom demons...!

Sew Hip Stacking Pockets

Well, after a lot of frowning and tongue-outpoking (I believe this is the correct verb, no?), and laborious prototype making and checking and re-checking, I finally submitted my design to Sew Hip, for their May 2010 Issue, out now in the shops.

If you've never bought Sew Hip, and you're a sewster, then you'll love it.  Go on, nip out and get it now while it's not raining.  It soon will be raining and you know it, so there's nothing for it on Good Friday and Easter Weekend but to read a magazine, hm?  Or subscribe, if you're in the US.  Sit down, with a cup of tea and ideally a massive piece of chocolate cake and start reading.  Actually, no, don't have the cake because you'll soon want to jump up and start making something from one of the Sew Hip patterns, and then you'll get cake on it.  Actually, yes, do have the cake because to NOT have cake would just be ridiculous.  Have the cake and sit on your hands.  Eat the cake with your face.  Just chow down.  Put a straw in your tea.
I'm getting over-excited aren't I?

Anyway, so I jumped at the chance to work with Sew Hip because I think it has a fresh, upbeat take on what it is to sew today, and has captured the zeitgeist.  Alice has just taken over as Editor, and she's racking up the blog posts, which is always nice, and they're fun twitterators too, so go and check them out if you haven't already come across Sew Hip and its online presence.

Starting with my design this issue, and a feature on OriginalStitch next issue (for which I should actually be finishing sending Alice the Ed some stuff instead of sitting here blogging - this is like being caught behind the bike sheds smoking when you're meant to be in class.  Not that I ever did that because I would have been terrified to bunk off, and didn't even try smoking till I was 21.  Twenty-one?!  Twenty-one?  What sort of a ridiculous age is that to start smoking?  Seriously.  Ones younger self, what bonkers decisions they took.  Aaaaaand close parenthesis Catherine)

Umm...yes, so my Stacking Pockets design is in Sew Hip this issue, and they will be featuring us next issue too, for a more in-depth look at OriginalStitch HQ.  And I promise I tidied up the office and studio for the photoshoot. Ish.  If by tidying I mean shoving things in a cavernous drawer in another room to get them out the way, that is.
Allow it, right?!