more wool coats for rugging

from my favourite charity shop these wool coats were £1.50 each

these wool coats were £1 each....(.the colours should  be bright apple and leaf green)....£5 the lot....look at the amount of fabric !! and with the violet and purple skirts I already have....what a colour palette....I just have to design it now...wool applique or hooked?

another 50p spent at the charity shop...

 paid 50p for this wooden block door stop....the covering was hanging off or removed...I was thinking I could just glue some more fabric on it....The same day I had got a wallpaper sample from the decorating isle....when I got it home and held it to the wall I realised it was too much for me....but for the door stop.......finished off with the washi tape I just had to buy in the sale at Beverley the other week....

functional and decorative...what more can a girl ask for...?

todays stats..old post.Lampshade sentinals

amazed to see that through Pinterest a number of people are looking up these lampshade ladies...over 70 in the last two days and 39 today....now that is busy for my blog ! Thankyou to all that have visited , so pleased you are interested...They are slightly over five feet tall....at the time I had an idea that I would try and get women to make a small piece of art work ...embroidery.. etc to Honour the significant women in our lives...and  to cover the form with them for International Women's Day....illness got in the way .....other things took time too....so that dream never got fulfilled...but so lovely to see the interest and hope someone has a go at making one. They look great covered in dressmakers tissue too. I would have put another picture up here but can't seem to find it on the computer.....

latest Charity Shop buys

I just love "novelty" yarns.... Couldn't resist this one at 25p......was thinking christmas-y...moss-y...and when I pulled the binding thread.....I could play with the thickness of the " moss ".... the red and white thread will be great for felt ornaments too.

I love seeing how I can a  change a yarn when I pull a thread or combine yarns......

At another Charity Shop....for just over £6....I got a Brand new retro Tala flour sifter...on it's own costs more than £6.... a 2 metre roll of primed artist canvas...A stack of "designer" fabric and a small storage box off  the part works The Art of Quilting...and new threads.....

I shudder to think how much someone has spent on the part work magazines and then not used them....but I'll out them to good use !!

more coat for a boat/follow the herring

Harry made this barrel specially for the project, it names all the places Follow the Herring is going to.

inside and on top are some of the pieces we made on Harry's workshop.

a small display of childrens work on the project in Central Library.
I went to see the play, Get up and tie your fingers at Hull Truck, it had three main characters, all female struggling to come to terms with the aftermath of the Eyemouth disaster of 1881 and a large female choir dressed as herring girls. It wasn't quite a musical as such, as the choir provided background sounds as well as the songs....more of a kind of sung narrative. It invoked a vast array of emotions in the audience and the comments book had many "moved to tears" "sobbing" messages in it.
The knitted picture looked great on the wall there, even better than I remembered...see it on Lyns blog..Linniecat at large blogspot.... she did the faces...making them look like real characterful individuals.

All the yarn bombing is down now...the square looks drab and bare...
It's all washed and repaired until we can use it somewhere else......my washing line looks drab and bare now too !!

Coat for a Boat, Holy Trinity

Finally got back to Holy Trinity to take pictures of the boat and the rest of the display...I was there when they were putting it together AND went back the next day.....AND went for the Opening but there were far too many people about to get clear pictures.......Been back today and still there are so many people....I guess its been a bit of a success !! The Church people very happy too. Ken, the man who was demonstrating net making asked what would happen to the Yarn Bombing when I took it down....and could we put it back for Heritage Day ? He cut a hole in his net to demonstrate how to mend it....see if you can spot the mend when you enlarge the picture....

 At this end of the Church...the Memorials to the Armed forces and the Maritime Memorials, commemorating the men of Hulls biggest fishing disasters. I had to wait ages to get a clear view !!

It is a fitting place to house the exhibition of A Coat for a Boat, a part of the touring Follow the Herring.

Now for the boat.....

It is two thirds of full size fishing boat so it can be taken apart and bolted back together and fit in a truck to transport it from place to place. A full sized one would have fitted in the space easily.

the boat is surrounded by foaming sea and sea creatures.

and sandy beaches.

A board is added for each place it visited.

Where there's fish...there are stray cats....

Will do the rest later..having trouble with blogger.....

Vintage sewing collection and Jackies journey

Two members of EYES stepped in when a speaker couldn't come.... Brenda Stapleton who is well known in the Patchwork circles and Jackie Ward-Lomax a relatively newcomer but prolific convert !
Brenda shared some of her of vintage collection with us.....Samplers of all shapes, sizes and age...other textiles, and other bits and pieces...

The whole cloth quilt was marked by a professional who's name escapes me...which would have been costly....but on closer inspection has a patched blanket inside ! 

 we were shown various textiles, samplers, embroideries and velvet painted and decorated with sealing wax roses

 Silks, pre war as they stopped producing for the war effort ? from Kensitas ciggys

 Queen Victoria surrounded by her Prime Ministers pin cushion

 Shop counter drawers which would have contained needles

 now holds knitting needle gauges

This is a clever vintage little work bag which I will do a post on when I have made one...

Jackie retired from teaching and took up wood carving...!! not twiddly little bits but tree trunks !! She then moved on to textiles...in various forms but mainly patchwork and embroidery. She brought many examples of her work....she explained her inspiration behind the works...

she started with a hanging inspired by the Indian window hangings which let air into the room and stops people from looking in....She started it when she had a broken arm and wanted to occupy herself as well as chart her healing process...the little squares were perfect to hold and sew .....and on closer inspection the squares do indeed tell the tale.

This one is a lovely family tree...the view I could get of it as it was closely inspected all the time !! There was a lovely cloth book were she had reproduced drawings by the grandchildren in stitch. and many other pieces.