Visitors sipped tea and nibbled cakes on 27th March at the opening of Knit Knot Teapot, The Old Sweet Shop's exhibition of unusual and quirky tea cosies.
Marj's catalogue proved very popular, and Frillip Moolog's 'Boris' sat in the window lighting up the faces of passers-by.
Watch this space for a poster of all the show's exhibits.
Knitters of all ages congregated at Southfields Library for the first of The Old Sweet Shop's Knit Knot Teapot knitting workshops. After designing a tea cosy on paper, everyone cast on and started stitching.
The Big Draw project concluded with a week-long exhibition of all the work produced, held at The Old Sweet Shop gallery from November 1-8. Everyone who participated in making the work was invited, and the private view and the show were very well attended.
Between 10am and 4pm on Saturday 13th October people of all ages were invited to drop in to this free event and create their own double page spread for ‘The Longest Little Book’. On arrival each child and each adult was given a ‘secret’ envelope containing a folded sheet of A5 card and their brief for the project. There were six briefs altogether, representing different parts of the story which was about the adventures of a little red hat. In part one, the hat is in a hat shop and the person taking part had to imagine what happens next – for example, is the hat stolen, does it fly out of the window etc. In other parts of the story the hat is lost in the forest, floating down the river, underground, in the park, and finally at home.
People taking part then used a rubber stamp to put the image of the hat on their page as a starting point, then went to a table and used the drawing and collage materials provided to create their own unique portion of the story.
Meeting with Joe Schneider to discuss his project Welcome Stranger. He will work outside the gallery and in the surrounding streets drawing people and details of the built environment. At all times when he's drawing he will be displaying a sign reading Welcome Stranger, this will become a recognisable symbol for the exhibition. He will extend an invitation to passers-by to sit down and be drawn. They will be invited to attend the exhibition as it evolves and to attend the private view which will happen on the last night of the exhibition. Joe Shneider
