Peninsula Craft Show - All Set up

Well finally home .................. last one to ealve ptures, BUT all set up - Exhibition room full of lovely things - wicker work, quilts, ceramics, sculptures, bead work, wall hangings, wood bowls/vases even a fruit bowl and fruit in wood (you can't tell the difference!) 

SALE Room all done - tables loaded with all sorts sumptuous goodies - a truly comprehensive collection of  items anyone would be thrilled to have as a gift! 

RAFFLE prizes selected - again a wide selection of things for all tastes!

So............... now its a case of final touches early tomorrow morning then wait in hope of lots people coming and buying!  

Lets hope its a good show and weather kind to us ....................... hope to see peeps there over the weekend! 

Will take pics tomorrow .......as lots fresh new things to choose from 

MY Stuff at the Peninsula Crafts Show 26-27th October WOLVERSTONE

Just an update - I shall have on show 6 BRAND NEW DESIGNS in the Exhibition Hall .....

1. TAPIS - a striped straight 3/4 coat in wool and alpaca - in vertical stripes in honey, red, blue, greys based on a kelim carpet design. A striking design - a real show stopper
• also has a matching  Mongolian Crown Hat and Scarf 
2. AROUND THE SQUARE - a real round peg in a square hole of a design - using soft striping yarn in a single seamless piece of construction. A bolero style jacket with a fold back collar. In a  soft boucle yarn in dark midnight colours of green. navy, black, red, brown ......it will match everything in your wardrobe. A soft snuggly bolero that will look good over trousers/jeans or that new length skirt.
3. WINTER CROP CIRCLES - stunning colours using NORO wool - a circular waistcoat in bright winter colours of reds, greens and golden browns. Shaped so it will wrap around you - yet long enough to cover your bum for those cold winter days ahead ...................
4. FOREST OF CLUNE COAT - a Missoni ripple style long coat in cream wool with fine brown and black nepps. The coat is named after the wool as it is such a special wool! Light and elegant that will look good with all your cream, browns and blacks to tone in or contrast. 
5. SPRING FLOWERS BAG - Felted wool bag in an unusual stone-pink colour with soft mohair flowers trimming the top - soft , fun, and flirty!
6. MELANGE JACKET - a subtle blend of various tweed wools in stripes with border design with raglan bracelet length sleeves. A Chanel classic looks good over jeans or more formal skirts - for that effortless country chic look.

There will also be a various new accessories including scarves, shawls, cowls, hats, wrist-warmers; plus other items to wear waistcoats and jackets; blankets; and much more to see - feel free to touch as all are in gorgeous wools, cottons and other yarns 

Photographs to follow - hope to see you there!! 

Watch out for my new range in luxury yarns in ALPACA, MERINO, SILK - for that special person or event 

Commissions taken - in fact preferred as I can fit the item to you and you can pick the yarn of your choice from my stash which includes rare and vintage yarns.

 I usually do 2-3 fittings to make sure it really fits well and flatters you. If a jacket / coat etc does not suit you I will tell you as it is important to me that it looks really good on you!

PENINSULA CRAFTS EXHIBITION - THIS WEEKEND!!!

Hi Everyone!

Its that time of year for our Annual Autumn Exhibition & Craft Sale - so please do come and bring your friends - we have been exhibiting for over 15 years with changing membership and guests to ensure a fresh variety of crafts on offer.

Get that Christmas Shopping done early and in lovely surroundings, no crowds  and you can ponder, over a cup of tea and chunk of cake, as to what to buy ...... for whom ...........  You will be spoilt for choice! 

There will be festive Christmas Trees to help set the scene to get you in the mood 

IPSWICH HIGH SCHOOL 

WOLVERSTONE 

SHOTLEY PENINSULA 

(Just outside Ipswich)

SATURDAY & SUNDAY 

27-28th October

10am-4pm 

The Exhibition Hall 

will be showing a wide variety of hand crafted pieces 

including:  

Quilts and Wall Hangings

Woodwork

Wood turned bowls and vases 

Jewelry in silver and semi-precious stones

Beaded jewelry

Crocheted jackets, coats, bags

Padded boxes 

Fused glass work

Ceramic sculptures

The Sales Room in The Orangery

Quilts 

in various sizes and colours by several crafter's

Wall hangings 

pieced, quilted, enbroiderd 

Christmas stockings and decorations

wide range on offer 

Advent Calenders

Turned wood

Ceramics 

Stoneware

Porcelain 

Pottery

Cards - crafted and photographic

Photographs - framed

Silver and semi-precious jewelry

Bead work

Chain Mail 

En-caustic Art work 

Padded Boxes

Bags

Cushions 

Paper Art 

Aprons

Cards 

and lots of other things! 

Perfect for early Christmas Shopping 

GLORIA 

will be providing 

Cakes and sandwiches 

Coffees and teas 

(very yummy !!)

There will also be a Raffle - so a chance to win something truly gorgeous! 

Work on show will not only include work from the Peninsula Craft Group, but also a select number of local crafts people, extending the range of crafts and items on offer 

 There will be items for suitable for babies, toddlers, teenagers to adults - so something for everyone

Weather permitting you can walk around the grounds while there - so a lovely day out! 

Peninsula Craft Group

Marianne Brame - Stirling Silver & Gemstone Jewellery

Sue Brudenell - Quilts & textiles

Mark Cordle - Wood Turning

Lynn Dyson-Bruce - Crochet and Textile 

Brian Fitzsimmons - Wood Turning

Peta Jane Gulliver  - Freeform beadwork

Linda Haylock - Netted and woven beadwork

Anne Marie Jarvis - En-Caustic Art work

Maggie Lamb - Patchwork Quilts & Wall Hangings 

Helen Rounds - Quilts and Wall hangings

Guest Exhibitors 

will include: 

Deborah Baynes - pottery

Margaret Cossey - textiles

Suzanne Franks - paper and card work

Sarah Hicks - felting

Jill Hodgson - Artist & Interior Design

Barbara Hooper-Greenhill - Pottery

Carol Lacey - Chain Mail

Ann Lawson - Textiles

Carol Mayston - Fused Glass 

Julie McCormack - Photography 

Lal Pegg - Textiles 

Usch Spettigue - Stoneware & Porcelain 

Mary Wyatt - Ceramics 

Plus others

So there will be plenty of choice and prices range from a few pounds to several hundred! 

Please remember to bring lots of cash or your cheque books as we sadly can not process charge cards yet) 

We can reserve exhibition items till Sunday for pick up 

We look forward to seeing you and welcome any who wish to become members of our group - 

just ask a Steward!

PS: Help us celebrate our 25th Exhibition next Spring 

25-27th MAY 2013 at 

The Shipwreck Shotley Peninsula 

so watch this space for special announcements ...it will be a very special exhibition!!  

Art on the Prom ...........

Estelle wearing one of my pinwheel waistcoats in shades grey and putty 

Standing in front of both our stalls 

Estelle here wearing one of my waistcoats - standing by her ceramic art 

We shared our stall space again  .......... 

This year we swapped a jacket for a pot. 

Anyway a brilliant if exhausting day - sunny and dry all day - it only rained after the day was over! 

I am still in recovery mode - been sleeping and exhausted since .....mega zzzzzzzzzzzzz 'ing ...

Dear H put everything up and took it all down .. I certainly could not have done it ... and he helped during the day as well - what a star! 

At least this year no panic at the end with whipping winds and rain like we had last year! 

Plenty of people were there - cruising up and down the promenade 

A couple of friends popped by and said hello which was really nice!

Lets hope next year will be as good!

PS MY STALL  WAS FEATURED IN THE LOCAL FELIXSTOWE PAPER! 

So thrilled to see out of ALL on the Prom my stall was one of several otehrs featured - WOW!!!

Children's Art Aprons - for the 'Budding Artist'

Budding Artist's Aprons 

Bright colourful aprons for toddlers and young children - for budding future artists possible  Art on the Prom Artists ! 

Help the creative child express themselves with these funky little aprons - bright and colourful yet practical - helps protects clothes and lots little pockets for crayons, art materials or anything - children just so love little pockets to keep their little bits and pieces in! 

Each is reversible with one or both sides having as series of small pockets for those all important things! 

Each 'Budding Artists' apron comes with the pockets filled with crayons or felt tips ready for the budding artist to express themselves!

The gardening aprons have a packet of seeds in the front pocket

Past purchasers have told me that once their child/grandchild has it on they wont take it off! 

Of course the aprons can also be used for lots of other messy tasks such as helping Mummy cooking in the kitchen or helping in the garden! 

I wish I had thought of them when my children were young! 

Priced £10-12 each

PS Some of the aprons come with matching adult aprons - so Mother/Father  Daughter/Son
or matching aprons can be made on request 

Frister & Rossmann E Series SPHINX CLEOPATRA - Vintage sewing machine: my new toy!!

Frister & Rossmann: E Series - Sphinx Sewing Machine 

After cleaning and full service - shining bright CLEAN!! 

and now working - was rather filthy and very jammy before ...

I just so thrilled with it ...like a kid with a new toy!!!

Think I will sew my Mt Fuji silk quilt with it - nice controlled sewing of lots little pieces fabric - LOL!!

Yet to find out what it likes and dislikes in fabrics - sewing machines can be very temperamental and I have found the older machines favour one type of sewing over another and many do not like their tension being constantly re-adjusted. So I tend to have machines dedicated to specific materials and weights i.e. one vintage machine for heavy duty sewing, another for fine silks  and a modern electronic machine for all the fancy stitches .............. getting to be a sewing machine junky! But I am beginning to have quite a love affair with the old vintage models - they are just so beautifully engineered.

Now where in a modern machine does it say (& I quote) "This machine with correct maintenance will last many decades" Take your breath away in this modern throw away society - these machines were made to LAST  !?! 

I rest my case for sewing with a vintage machine!!! 

The Sphinx on the sewing machine head - very female unlike the original!!

Cleopatra eating a Lotus on the flat bed  - you can see where Madonna had her idea for her 'Madonna Bra's.... Nothing is new! 

The Quiltman badge on the pillar - still very bright and shiny!

Now found out that this machine dates to the 1920's 

The 'E' Model was the most popular machine that Frister Rossmann manufactured - a German company 

It is adaptable in that it can fit into a treadle base - the holes, complete with metal lining, in the base are there ready to go - shame it wont fit into my old treadle as it is a smaller machine not the wider base. 

One of the main reasons I bought her is because she has an adjustable stitch length (via  screw knob) not just for forward stitching but for reverse as well! Whereas most vintage sewing machines I have seen only have an adjustable forward stitch but the reverse is just a standard length ............ a close up of this pic coming..........

She is now a little beauty and now sewing well after a massive clean and degunge - I took her to bits and cleaned n scraped all the dirt n rust off - had to use WD40 to ease rusted in screws (but quickly wiped off to prevent damage to the finish), so I could access its inner workings and even just to free the sewing machine foot. 

Then oiled and oiled some more - and scrubbed & scrubbed with toothbrush - lots & lots of paper towels .......cotton buds ....and hours afterwards this is the result a wonderful clean machine which now sews like a dream! Certainly worth a whole days work! 

The case is to be cleaned and re-waxed and should be pretty good as well - just wish had taken some before pics! 

Behind it you can see an old basic Czechoslovakian machine I tried to rescue - I gave up on it as just could not keep the tension - would snarl up everytime I changed fabric weight, and the bobbin constantly kept falling out - so all teh effort to clean n oil it was wasted. I managed to contact the Czech company but they have no record of it now and no spare parts and advised that I don't bother with it - shame 

I also have an old Lotus Singer 99K (12" base - great for quilts) in a treadle base - now this needs serious work as well to get it back into order and a new treadle belt and I don't know what else 

I have moved it out of the drawing room so I can work on it and clean it without the fear of oil and solvents dripping onto the carpet .... then I have to get into treadling mode...... trouble is I am not sure I will have the energy to do it due to the M.E. but maybe in very short sessions of a few minutes .... now that will take forever to sew anything! I will post pics of that - but with a before as well as after cleaning and servicing it. 

I cleaned it and stripped it down and sews fine now - used a motor and disconnected the treadle belt as I just do not have the energy to pedal these days :( 

ART on the PROM - SUNDAY 2nd SEPTEMBER

The next Art on the Prom

 in 

Felixstowe 

is on 

SUNDAY 

SEPTEMBER 2nd 

2012  

The Art on Prom Display in Pierrot's Window - who kindly support the event 

Detail of the display 

See the video advertising this years ART on the PROM
http://www.felixstowetv.co.uk/video-archive/viewvideo/919/community-a-charity/art-on-the-prom-promo

On the display board along with some lovely art work and photography are a couple of my items -
Hand Felted  and Crochet Floral Bag - with flowers and bead embellishment
(Part of a series of bags)
Hand dyed and crocheted  Shawl
Hand painted cushion cover 

I will be there......................so look out for me 

DH will be helping me and doing all the hard work setting up and taking down for me and helping through the day 

I will be sitting on my chair - lets hope good weather and lots people buying!! 

I will have among many things ..........

A wide range of my crochet - clothing and throws 

Hand painted and quilted beach hut - bags and cushion covers

My photographic cards 

Ask if you do not see anything you like as I will have extra things in crates under the table 

Remember you will be able to order things in alternate colours and yarn qualities - so just ask! 

Better get busy and make a few small things - do not have any lavender bags left for example!