Sarah Appleton - Textile Artist Blog

This year I was asked by my sister to create a costume for my nephew to wear on World Book Day. He's 3 years old and obsessed with Mary Poppins (as I was and still am!), so a Bert costume it was! Or more specifically, Bert in the 'Jolly Holiday' scene. If you haven't seen the original (or need a reminder) you can check it out here ! It's basically a classic casual men's Edwardian seaside holiday lurk with striped blazer, bow tie and straw boater hat. So for this costume I used this Kwik Sew pattern  and super-simplified it (e.g. left off all the pockets and unnecessary bits) and customised my own stripey fabric. First, I cut out all the pattern pieces from plain white cotton, then I used red, yellow and orange ribbon in different widths to make each individual stripe, pinning them into place first and then sewing them down with the corresponding colour thread. 🙈 If you are reading this with the intention of making this yourself here's a tip - you need lik...

I am currently one of six third year Textiles students taking part in a small exhibition in the BUMF Gallery space at AUB. This was a great experience for me to see what goes into the making of an exhibition and to work as part of a team to co-ordinate the organisation. My exhibits Some more photos and kind words about the exhibition can be seen over at the  Sophie Mortimore Photography  blog here:  http://www.sophiemortimorephotography.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/bumf-gallery-here-there-and-everywhere.html?m=1

Here's an update on nothing new! I've added all of the following to my online shops: Super Kawaii! Feed dem birds The Sally Bag Keen readers will recognise these from previous posts, hence the nothing newness. I am slow at adding things to my shops for some reason... Of course my favourite is still The Sally Bag , which is the son of Wilma Flintstone and Andy Warhol. My online shops are here and here (no, I still don't know why I have two). Not much else to report, I have a few exciting upcoming personal projects but don't want to say too much for fear of jinxing it all. This post was fuelled by Mickey Lee Lane, Ainsley Harriott's Cauliflower Cheese flavoured cup soup and vegetarian moussaka!

Hey y'all Cast your collective mind back a wee while and you may remember that I took a screenprinting class at AUCB and then promised to show you all the work I'd done and then forgot. Well today I have remembered! I have turned 4 pieces into canvas wall art: Feed the birds St. Paul's Cathedral - being a ginormous Mary Poppins fan, this is a big favourite You're Westminster Crabby Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey shabby chic negative print Tower Bridge This has to be my favourite - an accidentally 80's Tower Bridge. Apparently I am a subconcious West Ham fan as well, who knew? Yes, so these are all samples from my printing class, but I'm not going to tell you anything about how I did them because I am selfish like shellfish. If you luurve them why not check them out over at my Folksy shop ?! This post was brought to you today by Michael Palin, Mary Poppins and International Twin mix CDs