This is my first time to your blog, and I’m very envious of your home – what a great location. I too have a pile of jeans and thick cotton trousers waiting to be made into something useful, as my brother wears out a pair about every three months (what does he do to them? Just fidgeting can’t make that many holes, surely?!) and I too thought about patchwork – maybe a skirt, using the waistband and top parts of ones that fit, and patches below. But I also thought about a rag rug – one you push through holes in hessian – very hardwearing, and warm to do on winter nights!

I love the patches you show here though, that one with the zippy mouth is fab. I always intended to do little sewing chores like this in the evenings but in this vile weather I find myself knitting instead…