Cosy Crafting at the Clubhouse!

Kerry and Jo craft chatting!

Our second Make Space Girls' Craft night was another lovely evening.  There's something so wonderful about cosying up in front of a log fire with a basket of crafts and a few good friends around you.
The clubhouse at Duncton Mill Fisheries was the perfect setting for our get together with it's wood burning stove, comfy sofas and coffee pot gurgling in the corner.

Everyone brought their various projects, including a tapestry, knitting, sewing and even a fancy dress costume that needed making for school! (Now that's an efficient way to have an evening off!)  We all settled into our cosy home for the evening, helping ourselves to homemade treats and hot drinks and warming ourselves by the fire on what turned out to be quite a cold evening outside.

 

I had set up the Make Space project area in the corner, amply stocked with all sorts of fabrics, beads, buttons, ribbons and sequins and a few of us sat happily decorating our lavender filled hearts.  I even made a few Make Space pincushions for the occasion!

 

Others made a bit of progress with their Brought From Home projects and a superhero cape was completed, all in good time for a busy mum to get ahead of the game for a school dressing up day.

That's the whole idea about these Make Space Craft evenings - to bring along something you've not had time to do - or have wanted to do for ages and actually give it some space and time.  Time to make - Space to flourish.
A few of us learnt something new too - the beginnings of crochet!

And we launched our idea of book swaps - with a table full of lovely craft books and magazines, ready to be borrowed.

We hope that others will have books at home they may be able to lend around too - so that we can make use of each others resources to keep ourselves inspired.  Jo's idea of bringing along novels was a fab one too - so if anyone has something they've read and would be happy to pass on, please do bring it along.

Hopefully everyone went home pleased with what they had made and achieved, having had a wonderful time, chatting, learning, laughing and making.  And hopefully you all went home feeling a little bit more like YOU. xx

Next Make Space Girls' Craft night is on February 28th at 7.30 at a particulary cosy home in Petworth.  watch this space and face book for more details nearer the time!