Knitwear Junkie

A couple of weekends ago, me and Lucy ventured east to Broadway Market - it is really good, great place for stumbling upon bits and pieces for your home, plenty of stalls after stalls graced with delicious food and also the odd bit of clothing thrown in. The sun was out and it felt like spring was beginning to bloom! After a bit of pottering about we found ourselves dining on pad thai and a beer in a dark, good old english pub with oak panels, mix-match paintings and candles.....ah.....felt good after our looooonnnggggg run we had done just hours before.

Pub + Bunting + Daffodils = <3

Got myself a beautifully decorated cigar box for £1. Bargain.

Once done at Broadway we hopped on a bus to London Bridge, fought the crowds at Borough Market and then ambled back home along the river.

After running in the morning for pretty much the distance of a half - marathon and spendin g the rest of the day walking we felt it was definitely time for a well deserved tea and cake break. Yum.

During the weekend I couldn't help feeling it was the calm before the storm and that once Monday arrived my world would become a chaotic whirlwind of costume work. Why? Over the past week at Wimbledon we have been working on a collaborative project, interpreting some of the designs from our previous design work for a show in the theatre this Friday. However, by some miracle all is seeming to be going swimmingly for me and my group?!? It has been really fun and have definitely learnt A LOT about making seeing as I am normally on the designing side. But my group has been really great, working extremely hard and are productive with a capital P!

For the majority of the project I have been in dye heaven with Lucy P doing everything from dyeing our coat material to pattern painting and applied decoration, but have also attempted to muck in on the construction side of things too.....

Jenna looking hot in the our calico breeches - I made one of the legs ha.

Making the lining for the coat - also the fabric me and Lucy dyed which looks remarkably like a youth hostel bed sheet?

Tacking in the CF and waistline ready for sewing.....

Jenna, our resident model, showing the result.

This meant rather than my premonition of frantically scrambling around working night and day did not materialize- instead we were able to have a weekend pretty much at leisure.....well apart from about 10 hours of fraying Sunday.....! Fair to say I got up to some pretty cool stuff including a Victorian Feast and Afternoon Tea with unlimited champers. Yep.

The Menu from our feast! And yes that does say ox heart.

It was created by a chef, an artist and a set designer and the company is called 'The Art of Dining' the whole thing was an amazing experience. We stumbled off a non-descript street in Hackney and were transported into a Victorian dining room full of candles, quill feathers, old books, chicken feet and brains in jars, threadbare rugs and finished off with a roaring fire on which birds sat in bell jars. The food was delicious and the presentation of the cocktails was really fun - jam jars, Alice in Wonderland-esque bottles. Ah. An amazing night.

Lucy looks so happy and content.....ha. Afternoon tea was so nice. In the Marriot Hotel's Old Library Room over looking the Thames and Westminster - I could very happily have stayed in that armchair forever. We didn't realise our offer included 'free flowing champagne.' We were there for 5 hours.