Crafty Clyde's Big Day Out!
My lovely friend Pippa (aka The Fabric Wrangler and the other half of Norwich Sewcials) won a couple of tickets to The Stitch Festival in London so we decided to be brave and take our country bumpkin selves to the Big Smoke.
This was my first super venture out 'alone' since the ol' Big C and so it was exciting for many reasons. If not incredibly tiring!
We took a train to London and made our way to Islington, finding the very large queue outside! Fast moving thankfully and we were sent straight up to Level 2 of the show. Immediately reminded of home lands when we found this fella waiting for us.
The stands upstairs were very busy when we arrived and we shuffled and browsed the upper circle for 3 hours before completing the circuit! Here is a little look at the view. (Hopefully this works, not sure I've ever put a video in before!)
Along the way we did a little shopping and stopped off at the SisterMintaka stand to meet Sandeep (who is so lovely) and see some incredible woodland items made entirely of thread!!! We made a few purchases of fabric, stitch minders, trims and a Jenerates Seam Circle Gadget that will come in handy for our drafting retreat in a few weeks. (It adds seam allowance onto patterns).
By the time we had completed upstairs, the lower floor had quietened and it was a lot easier to navigate. A few more seats would have been appreciated as my feet were so sore at this point.
Fuelled by a little lunch and some Jelly Babies (shared with Roy of Roys Material World as he looked like he was going to pass out) we found renewed gusto to complete the stalls.
We met the loveliest ladies at Khia Fabrics who showed us some £400pm (yes you read that right) Met Gala Gown worthy hand stitched fabric which was just glorious. No we did not buy it!
We ale met Priya and her dad who were working hard at An Indian Summer, their family business and of course we had to buy some beautiful buttons and ribbon which, shock, I actually have a plan for.
We saw so many sewing vloggers about in the afternoon and had to get some cheeky pictures with everyone.
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By the end of it we were absolutely shattered so headed back to the station (via a rather long route - my bad, sorry Pippa). After a near miss on boarding the wrong train we finally got back on track and headed back East for a very very big sleep!
An epic day which certainly took its toll on my body but was totally worth it. Let me know if you visited and if you brought home any goodies!
Wishing everyone well and thank you for stopping by - feel free to comment and come and say hello on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and Bloglovin too xxx
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