(My wooden generic wallpapering table)
As I have previously mentioned, my dad is a very clever man! sometimes I do not know what I would do without him. Throughout my childhood I thought it was the norm to have your mum design and paint something and your dad make it. This ranged from homemade ornate own designed wrought iron fencing and gates, to Charles Rennie Mackintosh inspired furniture. Infact even the bunkbeds my sister and myself shared were made by dad.
So when I had a falling apart wallpapering table which was suppose to double up as a pattern cutting table (Space saving!), it was either sell it at a carboot (in the hope somebody could make use of it...lol forever recycling) or work out how it could be metamorphed into something new and useful.......
(Garment design poster on display)
.....at the same time I was wondering how I could create a free standing display board to use at my exhibition stand in October (Please google the knit and stitch shows). Then it became obvious, why buy new wood when the very design of the table with its already intack hinge system could be reworked into the said A frame style display unit.....
(Component design explanation poster for Quirky Little Knits)
................so I designed this display stand which can be used to store inside the marketing paperwork while in transit. He even reused the carry handle. Left over roofing felt he already had was glued on either side of the A3 size new frame, this allows for any poster to be pinned on and removed easily....
(Side view of the bespoke 'A' stand display case)
.....The outside was painted in wipeable white and I painted the felt in black with a contrast red braid; this ties in with my logo colours to give continuity.
(Open view of 'A' stand display case)
Over all I think another very successful family design.
I was told in a meeting this week that maybe we should patent the idea!
A few months ago I blogged about my success at winning knitting magazines Rowan vintage competition, with my 'After Dolly' eco friendly design. This was based on vintage crochet lace and inspired from the film '9 to 5' where Dolly Parton wears several lovely knitted dresses.
....yesterday my prize finally arrived in a big box, leaving me wondering what it was because I had forgotten all about the actual prize!
...I won 2 packets of yarn which are felted tweed chunky and milk yarn. The felted is something which I would not neccessarily buy to sample and develop work with, but this is a good thing as I will probably discover something new with it. The milk yarn as I have said lots of times is my favourite yarn, it just happens to be in a pink though! and I love pink which means my work as of late seems to be becoming pink....its something I was objectively trying to move away from.....so this may mean I will finally make my daughter something instead of only working towards my stock for once.
....the dress itself is yet to be photographed and will appear sometime in the future in knitting magazine along with my pattern. This to me IS the prize as it's one more step up to my goal of being a selling pattern writer. The dress it has been agreed will be returned to me temporarily, in order for it to be displayed on my stand at the Twisted Thread show...
....You can find me and the dress at Alex. Palace, London between 8th and 11th October 2009, in the resource centre, stand Rcc11.
...This is one of the books which was included in my prize along with a rare addition of the 10th anniversary publication for Rowan.
