Making, Mending and Living North

Another lovely making day with my two creative friends, Gill P and Gill W.   The three of us are having a stand at the Living North Christmas Fair in November  (.http://newcastle.livingnorthfair.co.uk/).  We have decided to exhibit collectively as 'Made', and have been asked to provide images of our work.

Gill W is a wizzo with the camera taking very arty photographs, so she was given the job of creative director.  I was chief cook and bottle washer providing sustenance in the form of tea, sandwiches, home-made corned beef pie and for afters strawberries and blueberries with creme fraiche - not all at once you understand.  A bowl of sweeties to be nibbled throughout the proceedings (and boy did they do that - not a fruit gum left in sight!) finished off the catering for the day!  Gill P was quietly sewing her lovely wall hangings and supervising props usage with Gill W.  Trugs, baskets, trays, curtains and cushions were all utilised .  Interior and exterior shots were taken - no stone unturned in the quest for the perfect image.  We are all so creatively different, to marry our work together proved difficult, oh and did I mention it had to be Christmas orientated!  Anyway we did eventually come up with a composition we were happy with.   We decided a simple photograph of one piece of work each worked the best, but here are a few Gill created using a lot of our work together.....

 My lovely rustic wire wall basket full to the brim

A trug full of delights

Heart shaped baskets provided a nice backdrop for this simpler shot.....

Yes, apologies that is Santa Claus making a very early appearance!

Gill kindly took some photographs of my work and let me take some with her super duper camera. 

A wrist cuff nestling in the curtains

and another ....

last one!

and now for something completely different, the mending part...........

I was lucky enough to find a tatty old bag full of gorgeous cards of mending yarns, there were over fifty - someone must have had a lot of socks to darn!

another trug full of delights

 

I wonder who used that needle in the card on the right?

I love the description on this one - lisle hose sounds so romantic!

a few lovely smoke cats-eye mother of pearl buttons from my local flea market

and last but not least, an image of some buttons to be used on a garment I am working on for Betty, I have hand painted dye onto a few of them.

gorgeous linen lingerie buttons

Show you them in-situ on a later post!  The sun is shining so I am off to have a cup of tea... have a lovely week.  Jayne x

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