Duncton Fete and other matters

Saturday morning started early - Eron singing to himself in the hallway at 6am. As it was, I had to get going anyway - firstly to our school Fair to set up a display for our local Playgoup and then a dash back home in the, by then welcome rain to get ready for my first show of the year, down the road at Duncton.

By the time I arrived there at 1pm with my mum, the sun was shining again and I was delighted to find I was once again next to Jo, from Phoenix Cards - she's lovely, and I loved browsing through the beautiful designs and dreaming about one day submitting my own work to them.

The stall was visited by lots of little girls, purses full of coppers and faces full of delight! So much so, that I am busilly working on more pocket money friendly treats for next weeks show in Petworth Park. They seemed to love the Bag Buddies,(below) so I will also have to restock these and Ben has a lovely idea for Alien Bag Buddies which I have to try. I think I will be in the studio every spare moment again this week!


These little friends proved a big hit and they were just as much fun to make as the bags. The things I make have to be a joy to make. I really do love the boxes of fabric I have collected over the years, full of precious scraps of treasured cloth. Some are especially favourite pieces that I am eeking out for only the projects I have tried and tested. That's the pleasure and pain of creating things from reclaimed fabrics - once they are gone, they are gone. So I am so pleased when a little square of yellow rose cotton, or the fabulous green house curtains turns up in the bottom of a box! Every tiny piece is used as I invent ever smaller creations; hems, darts, seams are all incorporated somehow!

Tonight I have been working on hair ties using sheer and shiny fabrics, in pinks and lilacs embellished with beads and sequins. If that doesn't entice every 6 year old girl with coppers to spend, I don't know what will!