As the title suggests, not everything Chez Needles is about 1940's glamour girls and 50's pin ups - I like modern stuff too. A desig...

Castlefield Basin, Manchester A couple of weeks ago, Mr Needles and I took a quick trip to Manchester to visit friends and relatives, and...

I've never found the right receptacle for my sewing pins - it's always something too fiddly, or it doesn't withstand repeated us...

Pauline Trigere for McCall's, 1956 I started this coat a while ago, then got distracted by a load of things, like Christmas, sno...