Shall we begin? Home makes.

 

For the last week or so I have been thinking about the places we make. Personally I have a bit of a love hate relationship with my living room floor at the moment but am in the process of making a little studio room in my house ( I am indeed a lucky pup!).

Home making however is a bit of a lonesome business at times and quite stunting if you have no one to bounce ideas off. I mean being hysterically excited because you have mastered a double crochet for example is all well and good with an audience of yarn enthusiasts, but I have had slightly more mixed reactions from my non-crafty house-mates ranging from the bemused to the somewhat hostile ‘please remove your weird knitty-thing out from in front of the TV’ which I must say put a dampener on my more triumphant maker moments.

This is why The Waiting Room does such an important job, firstly providing the space and tools for artists and craftspeople to develop there practice and exhibit there work and secondly creating a community full of support and great advice that’s easily accessible and overwhelmingly friendly.

I see and feel this community every time I go to The Waiting Room but I’m really keen to showcase what you guys are making when your not here. I want to try and get a bit of that making, creative, innovative atmosphere online and so have been asking for submissions from local makers of what they are currently working on and boy are you lot a talented bunch!

From the most beautiful Wedding cakes from local baking company Little Big Cupcakes,

Beautiful crochet by the talented maker Evaly Jerome,

Ceramic gold loveliness from Miss Melanie Clark

And a magnificent metal offering from the passionate jeweller Lieta Marziali.

I’m going to start one more Pinterest board to start sharing what you are beavering away at and hopefully we can begin to support you guys on your making journey even when your not with us!

Please, please send me more photos of what you guys make to [email protected] .

Maker Wednesday on the 10th September is totally going to be my next make, hosted by the fabulous designer Katie Kennedy, she will be teaching us how to sew your own bike pannier! Hope to see you there.