In spite of my top tips for a tidy house posting last month - 'things' went a bit awry in the spare room.... no guests at the moment - the spare room aka known as my 'Studio' looked like a bomb had gone off, a paint bomb mind you... it was riot of colour - fabric everywhere - Most of it loitering from the last college module when I just couldn't find the right combination and nothing worked!! This necessitated me to buy more fabric - which didn't work either - I went through all my old saved clothing items which are nice patterns - still nothing - then resorted to my paper/collage collection in case I could diversify - nothing was working which caused me great grief and just made an overwhelming mess - interestingly perseverance paid off and it all turned out well in the end - I worked on black velvet and cotton and used a lot of embellishment and got a good mark for the final outcome...
There was also wool everywhere as I am considering knitting an Icelandic jumper - should I ever find an appropriate pattern - and then one day when I was out I think someone took a large spoon and just stirred the room up... maybe there was a Togston earthquake I missed while sleeping! anyway you couldn't see the bed for the trees worth of piled up paper, cloth, clothes, wool and things which just turned up as if they lived there!
Obviously I needed more boxes, I definitely need a plan chest and then of course I need space to put them it. It felt like a losing battle! but I did not despair I just closed the door!! - its all part of the 'slam it in Ruby Starrs' look but basically got a bit out of hand!!
Of course it didn't help that I went to Leeds and discovered the Fab Works Mill shop so then I was able to hide the mess under a swathe of fabulous red fur fabric which is waiting to made into a coat... I also picked up some 'scraps', stuff what you can into a bag for £2.50... and yesterday instead of sorting out the mess upstairs - I made a lovely tweed inside out skirt - putting the wonderful herringbone offcuts together in panels and leaving the seams on the outside so the beautiful raw fraying edges become a feature and added a slightly less frumpy look to a traditional skirt pattern, this skirt - using lining sourced from my stash and a zip purchased on Morpeth market cost me less the £2.00 to make....
Any way being such a tidy person ha ha ha - the spare room studio was haunting me and was obviously nagging at my inner consciousness as I couldn't sleep last night and ended up having a massive clean up in the wee hours of the morning.. it felt a bit like a dream but sure enough when I looked in this morning when I finally arose having gone back to bed at about 4.15 - the room looked like the brownies had been in the night - quite a transformation, I wonder how long it will stay that way!!
There was also wool everywhere as I am considering knitting an Icelandic jumper - should I ever find an appropriate pattern - and then one day when I was out I think someone took a large spoon and just stirred the room up... maybe there was a Togston earthquake I missed while sleeping! anyway you couldn't see the bed for the trees worth of piled up paper, cloth, clothes, wool and things which just turned up as if they lived there!
Obviously I needed more boxes, I definitely need a plan chest and then of course I need space to put them it. It felt like a losing battle! but I did not despair I just closed the door!! - its all part of the 'slam it in Ruby Starrs' look but basically got a bit out of hand!!
Of course it didn't help that I went to Leeds and discovered the Fab Works Mill shop so then I was able to hide the mess under a swathe of fabulous red fur fabric which is waiting to made into a coat... I also picked up some 'scraps', stuff what you can into a bag for £2.50... and yesterday instead of sorting out the mess upstairs - I made a lovely tweed inside out skirt - putting the wonderful herringbone offcuts together in panels and leaving the seams on the outside so the beautiful raw fraying edges become a feature and added a slightly less frumpy look to a traditional skirt pattern, this skirt - using lining sourced from my stash and a zip purchased on Morpeth market cost me less the £2.00 to make....
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| inside out skirt made with offcuts |
Any way being such a tidy person ha ha ha - the spare room studio was haunting me and was obviously nagging at my inner consciousness as I couldn't sleep last night and ended up having a massive clean up in the wee hours of the morning.. it felt a bit like a dream but sure enough when I looked in this morning when I finally arose having gone back to bed at about 4.15 - the room looked like the brownies had been in the night - quite a transformation, I wonder how long it will stay that way!!
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