Christmas and Homemade, my favourite combinations.

I am heading of for my last Christmas fair of the season to ✨✨✨✨Grayswood Village Hall, Surrey. ✨✨✨✨ Saturday 10th December for the Home and Vintage Christmas fair. A beautiful fair with Christmas carols, homemade cakes, mince pies and mulled wine. I'm taking with me my homemade Christmas Decorations using antique curtain brass curtain rings, millinery and ribbons, lavender filled Ballet sachet ornaments and lots of worn and preloved quilt scraps and fabrics, vintage quilts and lots more. It's so nice to be wrapped up in vintage pink creativity. 💝

Finally Christmas is on its way

I'm attending 3 fairs before Christmas, the first one will be 19th November in Lewes near Brighton.

A new fair for me but Lewes town is a lovely place with a great atmosphere and I look forward to taking part.

The next fair I will be attending is in Devizes, Somerset, this fair has an excellent reputation and I look forward to being part of their Christmas fair.

The last fair of the year will be back on home ground again, this is the 3rd fair I have done with Home and Vintage, I love their fairs, beautifully organised  and I can't wait to emerse myself in all the Christmas magic of this fair.

Find out more on my Instagram account 

Looking ahead ... Let's start sewing

I'm just back from selling some of my beloved quilts and textiles at a lovely fair in the Cotswolds. Such a beautiful place near Stow on the Wold and Burford. We had a 2.5 hour journey which wasn't too bad but the wind was awful and we missed a falling tree within an hour of passing it. Thankfully no one was hurt.
There were quite a selection of lovely stalls, a few of my most favourites who feature at fairs near to my home town. So I felt in very good company.

The Cotwolds is definitely quilt country, such lovely people came and visited my stall and they certainly love quilts like I do.

So many people are as enthusiastic as me for scraps and love to sew. I had quite a few quilt scraps and remnants and my last 2 remaining sample quilt bags that I have been coveting for a few years were snapped up within seconds. 

So it's goodbye to my heart bag, but I'm off to make some updated versions and maybe one for me.

While I'm at my old faithful sewing machine I need get ready for Christmas. Yes I said it. But fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

The Cotswolds Vintage Fair 20th August 2016

The Cotswold Vintage Fair is on the 20th August and I will be attending. Yes it's last minute.com but I love the Cotswolds and there are so many vintage and country home enthusiasts here Its worth a visit.

Find out more about the fair and who else will be attending.

www.thecotswoldvintagefair.blogspot.co.uk

Quilts Glorious Quilts

18th June 2016 -

 Have had a wonderful day in the beautiful Surrey countryside at The Home and Vintage fair in Haslemere selling some of my gorgeous vintage textiles and quilts which have been in my private collection for some years now. It's been a while, so nice to be back.

Creativity with Pearls

This is a fantastic use of pearls.

Showing in the Royal Collage of Art until the end of July.

Ann Carrington studied at Bourneville College of Art and the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1987. A year later she received the Herbert Read Award and the Commonwealth Fellowship for Sculpture followed by further awards from the Arts Council of Great Britain and her work has been exhibited all over the world from a permanent piece on Margate seafront to large scale public artwork in Manhattan.

Ann Carrington Pop Goes The Weasel!

14 July – 31 July 2016

Solo Exhibition at the Royal College of Art

Make and Mend ... Love Magnolia Pearl take on the tattered pantaloon