Tag: Show on the road

Stitchfest update

Goodness me!  It certainly rained yesterday, so if you decided to stay away from Stitchfest I really don’t blame you.  Our journey to Ardingly took us along the M25, and to say that it was difficult to see the car in front is putting it mildly.  So many cars, though, still driving on side lights – or no lights at all.  We saw a couple of near misses on the way there, and the result of a ‘touch’ on the way back.  Such a shame.

Anyway, if you didn’t make it you missed a really good show.  The exhibitions were excellent, and congratulations to Chichester branch for their winning entry.  Well-deserved, I have to say.  The theme was ‘Flight’ – and it was well interpreted by everyone.  I think that if I had entered I would have made a reference to Concorde – a recent post on my chatty blog will explain why.

What I really enjoy about these shows, however, is meeting all the people.  It was lovely to see so many students, so many of whom asked when the next workshop will be.  It was also good to meet a couple of online students face to face.  I’ll be posting the next round of workshops soon, in readiness for the autumn.  I’ve also had a few invitations to teach in other parts of the country too, so watch out for details of those too.

As for the camera – well we found it patiently waiting to be picked up!  It was still on the chair – so I’m sorry to say that there are no photographs of the stand, competition entries, or the horizontal rain!

 

Stitchfest

Anyone coming to Ardingly tomorrow?  I’ll be there on the Winifred Cottage stand.  Don’t forget to come and have a chat.

It will be a slightly different layout, but we’ll have a similar selection.  Hope to see you there.

Time to rest?

Well, it’s been a really busy weekend.  Four days travelling to various points south, east and west certainly are tiring.  We covered over 500 miles, and had 2 really early starts during this time.  Setting the alarm for 4.30 in the morning isn’t much fun at the best of times, but – setting it two days in a row is even worse.  The days were long, but we had so much fun, met some lovely people, and saw beautiful work.  Today is a rest day.  In effect, a ‘weekend’, but that just hasn’t worked!  We are off again tomorrow to see the students on the Distant Stitch courses, so instead of putting out feet up we are restocking boxes and trays, and soon I have more fabric to iron!  No complaints, I’ll rest up on Wednesday…… I hope.

I had imagined that I would have lots of rest time today, and that I would be able to sew this and that, read a few books that are patiently waiting, and also finger through some mixed media magazines that are sitting on my shelf!  Of course, there won’t be time for any of that, but I am hoping to put another tutorial up sometime in the next short while.  I want to show you all how I make my scrinchies.  The some of the ones I showed you earlier were made from the above stitching, including this one

The pieces are tinier than they at first appear.  I’ll be posting it here first, but no doubt it will make its way onto the blog at some point.