Nicky's Needle & Threads

04/09/2026

It's been an intense year - x2 daughters weddings, interspersed with family ops, battles with the big C, and most recently my elderly father hospitalised with 4 broken bones in his foot, after an incompetent driver drove over it twice at the petrol station!
Sometimes life bowls a curved ball - and that's life. I'm taking a Shingles diagnosis as an opportunity to rest, reset and smell the last of the summer flowers, and perhaps eat some homegrown autumn pumpkins.
Embracing de-stressing & calomine lotion is definitely my go-to 😃
I'll be sewing again soon 🪡 🧵

01/09/2026

A little kindness makes such a difference ❤️

Today a lovely customer blessed me with her gratitude - a little frame - which she didn't know was exactly what I needed today. I've put my Mum's photo in it to put beside my Dad's bedside as he's been in hospital since 13th Aug. Being married 70years, his sweetheart is the first face he sees when awakening 💘 Both 91 & still in love!

Thank you Jane ✨️ 🪡 🧵💜

31/08/2026

Happy English Bank Holiday Monday ✨️
Well, it's been a busy month, so a holiday today is perfect! 💃
Caught up with some alterations & mending after the wedding - a mother's favourite 🎒 repaired, sequined trousers & satin blouse alterations, and
(de ja vu) yes, you've seen this forest green bridesmaid dress before. The maid of honour has gone down a size, so further bodice reduction needed before Oct wedding.
Signs of life- new mama Pearl 🐔 proudly stepping out the henhouse with growing chicks : Buttons, Bobbin & Thimble (I suspect there's a baby rooster or 2 in the mix)🐥🐥🐥
✨️ 🪡 🧵

25/08/2026

I'm back in my sewing room again, after being away.
I've had the privilege of altering my 3rd daughter's beautiful, understated, classic, magnolia taffeta bridal gown 🪡 🧵
This gown only needed a hem shortening for walking through meadows and along tow paths, over stiles and through kissing gates, and for ceilidh dancing into the night 💃 The wedding was celebrated over 2 days in Oxford, beside the Thames river 🥳

The city dwelling bride&groom "doctors" are the most laid back pair, and a most lovely summertime English country wedding was celebrated in glorious weather❤️

I'm quite at my leisure now that all 4 daughters are wed 🥳 😃

15/08/2026

Just a reminder

I do alter gents clothes too - here's a suit I altered the sleeves length for my husband - we are celebrating a 4th daughter's wedding next week 🥳 so my sewing room is closed.

I'm taking time out to settle in Pearl's 🐔 new family - 1 week old Buttons, Bobbin & Thimble 🐥🐥🐥 - dreams really do come true ✨️

I'm CLOSED until 25th and will respond to messages in due course 😊 🪡 🧵

14/08/2026

14/08/2026

There is still time for blackberry picking in our long hot summer days before school starts again in September. Busy hemming my first granddaughter's school skirt, as it far too long 🪡 🧵 ✨️ 📚 🖊 ✏️

13/08/2026

A rehemming of a summery mint green dress for one of the coolest chicks I know - my youngest daughter - Sophia Turner, married last October.
This dress will be worn for one of the 2 summer wedding day celebrations, for my third daughter, who is to marry next week 🥳.
My sewingroom will be CLOSED next week, for another family wedding celebration! 🪡 🧵 ✨️ ❤️ 💍 💃 🕺

11/08/2026

A reminder at the end of the reel of my open hours.
Fun with buttons - who knew there'd be such summertime excitement and creative fun to be had with my old fashioned case of buttons- even Pearl 🐔 was curious! ❤️ 💙 💜 💛

10/08/2026

It's a new day, a new dawn, new week...new alterations 🪡 🧵

This week I'll be altering a vibrant blue dress coat sleeves & verdant sequinned trousers for.....a retired RAF dentist who is a clog dancer. This new customer is going to wear them to her 70th birthday bonanza at the Royal Albert Hall - a night at the Proms!
How did I unwind on a rainy Saturday? Oh I just repurposed my torn Weber bbq cover into a new laundry Windy Dryer 😃
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