Cushion making

I chose these two fabrics in John Lewis - both are reproductions of classic 1950's prints. After a few initial snags, I taught myself to successfully use my new (old) machine and feel extremely pleased.

The checkerboard fabric is United Colours of Benetton - it has the best colours and seemingly doesn't repeat - an absolute bargain from a fabric shop in Hillsborough. 

 

The Magic Know-How, Laura Buckley

Beautiful new show at Site Gallery in Sheffield by London based artist Laura Buckley.

Image courtesy of Site Gallery

Image courtesy of Laura Buckley

Image courtesy of Laura Buckley

Image courtesy of Laura Buckley

Image courtesy of Site Gallery

Image courtesy of Site Gallery

Archive Sheffield

Archive Sheffield is a new printed matter, produced in and about Sheffield. It targets and illustrates the people of the city as documented by some of the city's best photographers, and heralds a specially chosen set of projects by presenting them in small, alluring bites.

The core idea of Archive Sheffield that 'Sheffield is not place it is people'. It's first edition includes work by Theo Simpson, Gemma Thorpe, Andy Brown and Clive Egginton. Each photographer is gifted in picking out inconspicuous and lesser celebrated or rarely identified everyday details - details often guilty of provoking grander sensations of contentment, displacement or inspiration in ourselves and in strangers around us.  Ordinarily, we might fail to observe them.

Du.st have designed the neat layout and shape of Archive Sheffield's print - large format newspaper style with an additional smaller sheet of information added to the outside, held in place by a clip, also giving you the option to separate the pages and see the pictures in full.

Gemma Thorpe's photography is particularly engaging derived from her ongoing larger project work with Chinese students in Sheffield, 'Youzi Project'. 'Youzi's (translates to 'wanderers'). Her photographs depict the individual and collective lives of young Chinese people studying in their thousands in the city, adapting rapidly to  a vastly disparate culture and in turn changing the city's cultural fabric.

A hopeful start for Archive Sheffield, working to capture and stimulate thought across a broader spectrum of people,  showing us the city we think we know through alternative lenses.

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Copies available across the city, including Site Gallery

The finest example of a pair of Stork scissors

 

"Chased Stork Scissors" 

I looked into the term 'chased' but it's unclear if 'chased' is a scissor type or more to do with the stork. He looks quite static to me.

 As seen at Sheffield Cutlers Hall