New Hippystitch Necklaces Now In At The Ropewalk, Barton upon Humber

Hippystitch Fabric Necklaces

 

A new selection of Hippystitch fabric necklaces have winged their way to The Ropewalk Craft Gallery in Barton upon Humber.  There are lots of different patterns and colours to choose from and some super Liberty prints...

Hippystitch Fabric Necklaces

Whether you like brights, darks or neutral colours there's something for you in this selection...

Hippystitch Fabric Necklaces

The Ropewalk has exhibitions on in its galleries as well as it's Craft Gallery Shop. There's also The Ropewalk Museum and a coffee shop, not to mention some nice walks nearby. It's well worth a visit - go see!

New Stock Arriving At The Ropewalk, Barton Upon Humber

Resin Button Brooches

 

A whole new selection of Hippystitch stock is winging its way to The Ropewalk in Barton upon Humber.

There's a selection of vintage button brooches including these small mother of pearl button brooches with brightly coloured thread.  A new selection of resin button brooches (pictured above) is also en route.

Small Button Brooches

There's some larger button brooches too...

Button Brooches

and some People & Places brooches...

People & Places Brooches

There's also a great selection of fabric necklaces...

Fabric Necklaces

Do you have a favourite lucky number or a birthday coming up that one of these vintage domino brooches matches? 

Vintage Domino Brooches

Some of the vintage coin brooches have birds and animals on...

Vintage Coin Brooches

and there's more vintage button brooches, some ceramic button brooches and some screen printed bike bags too. 

Screen printed bike bag

Why not take a trip to Barton upon Humber and take a look.  The Ropewalk has exhibitions on in its galleries as well as it's Craft Gallery Shop.  There's also The Ropewalk Museum and a coffee shop not to mention some nice walks nearby. It's well worth a visit!

New in at The Ropewalk

Fabric Necklaces

I've just made a delivery to The Ropewalk in Barton upon Humber so they would have new stock in time for the post lockdown reopening. There are lots of lovely things, apart from a whole lot of colourful fabric necklaces, including some wooden domino brooches...

Wooden Domino Brooches

and resin button brooches, both of which are new to The Ropewalk...

Resin Button Brooches

Some of these knitted tree brooches could even be Christmas trees...

Knitted Tree Brooches

and there's some bird brooches... 

Button Bird Brooches

and some button brooches...

Button Brooches

not to mention People & Places brooches...

People & Places Brooches

and coin brooches...

Coin Brooch

 

and if you need something to carry it all home in there are even some bike bags...

Bike Bags

Of course there are lots of other artists and makers represented at The Ropewalk so if you can, make a beeline for their Craft Shop and do a spot of Christmas shopping!

The Ropewalk Craft Shop re-opens at 10am on Wednesday 2 December 2020.

Mermaids, Femmes Fatales & Trees at The Ropewalk

Mermaid Brooch

Just a quick update to let you know that a delivery of mermaid & femmes fatales brooches has arrived at The Ropewalk in Barton upon Humber...

Femme Fatale Brooch

And for the first time a forest of knitted deciduous and conifer tree brooches has also sprung up there...

Deciduous & Conifer Knitted Tree Brooches

So go take a look! The Ropewalk's a great place with lovely things to buy in the Craft Gallery, interesting exhibitions, a good cafe & a great garden with sculptures.  You can even find out all about the history of rope making at the Barton Ropery in the Ropewalk Museum.  The building has a characteristic ropewalk from its ropemaking days - hence the name!

Sue Stone at The Ropewalk, Barton upon Humber

Dora & Carmel - Sue Stone
Inspired by a memory from Ina Olohan

Textile artist, Sue Stone has a solo exhibition, Re-Tellings, at The Ropewalk in Barton upon Humber until 20 October 2019.  It's a must see show, and you still have time to pay a visit.  Sue's work typically features a considerable amount of handstitching where she uses a small number of different stitches to maximum effect.  This exhibition also includes her digital prints and iPad drawings too!

Sue Stone Textile Artist

The exhibition is inspired by memories - not just Sue's but others' too.  Members of the public were invited to take part by sharing memories of themselves and their relationships.  These took the form of anecdotes and images...

Memories

The common link in this selection is family & friendship...

They shared the knitting of the jumper - Sue Stone
Inspired by a memory from Pamela Richardson

The pictures here represent just a few of the stitched artworks on show...

The Girls Go To London Town - Sue Stone

6 Little Girls - Sue Stone
Inspired by a memory from Tilleke Schwarz

A Family's Life 1 - Sue Stone
Inspired by memories from V Mackman

In addition, there was a pictorial representation of Sue's life story in the form of a portrait for every year of her life so far...

66 a self portrait (part) - Sue Stone

My favourite picture was Dora & Carmel (see top), although it was hard to choose.

As well as the exhibition,  I was also just in time to book onto one of Sue's workshops.  Sue encouraged us to experiment with running stitch. With a palette of three fabric colours, we explored stitching patterns round our chosen applique shapes (and their negative counterparts) using different thread weights and different textured threads.  We also looked at looping, threading and fabric manipulation.  Sue had lots of samples to inspire us.  Here are my samples...

Running stitch with applique & threading

Looping

 

Fabric manipulation

And here's what everyone did...

Workshop participants' samples

I can't wait to to get on with some more samples - thanks, Sue!

Do go and see the exhibition.  The Ropewalk is a great place to visit!

New Stock for The Ropewalk

Liberty Print Fabric Necklaces

I have parcelled up a delivery of goodies for The Ropewalk in Barton upon Humber.  It's a great place - lovely things to buy in the Craft Gallery, interesting exhibitions, good cafe, great garden with sculptures and you can find out all about the history of rope making at the Barton Ropery in the Ropewalk Museum.  The building has a characteristic ropewalk from its ropemaking days - hence the name!

So in the delivery as well as some lovely fabric necklaces (see above), there are also some People & Places brooches...
 

People & Places Brooches & Map Pouches

some Femmes Fatales brooches...
 

Femmes Fatales Brooch

a whole selection of different button brooches...
 

Leather & Bird Button Brooch

Vintage Button Brooch

Tea Cup Button Brooches

Ceramic Button Brooches

And lots of other button brooches too!

not to mention domino and vintage coin brooches... 

Domino Brooches

Vintage Coin Brooches

And if that's not enough to whet your appetite, there's some sparkly flower brooches...

Sparkly Flower Brooch

and some knitted wire bird brooches too... 

Knitted Wire Bird Brooch

So, go on - take a look, there's so much to see!

Just arrived at The Ropewalk (& don't forget to see the exhibitions!)

Coral & Lava Necklace

Have been over one of my favourite bridges (the Humber Bridge) to make a delivery to The Ropewalk in Barton upon Humber.  I always like going - lovely things to buy in the Craft Gallery, interesting exhibitions, good cafe, great garden with sculptures and you can find out all about the history of rope making at the Barton Ropery in the Ropewalk Museum.  The building has a characteristic ropewalk from its ropemaking days - hence the name!

So I delivered some People & Places brooches and their map pouches... 

People & Places Brooches

and some button brooches and knitted wire birds...

Button brooches

Knitted Wire Birds

some mermaid and femmes fatales brooches...

Femmes Fatales & Mermaid Brooches

 large and small domino brooches...
 

Large Domino Brooches

Small Coloured Domino Brooches

coin brooches... 
 

Coin Brooches

and some fish and bike bags...

Fish Bags - Lino printed

Pink Bike Bag - Screen printed

and the ever popular Liberty print fabric necklaces...

Liberty Print Fabric Necklaces

New this time were some semi-precious necklaces too...

Semi-precious Necklaces

Until 10 June 2018 you can catch the Surfaces exhibition by Pete Moss & Clive Redshaw.  I especially loved Redshaw's tapestries but check out his paintings too.  Pete Moss's ceramics had great depth of colour...

Clive Redshaw - Know It Will Be Soon (tapestry)

Clive Redshaw - Spring Lookout (tapestry)

Pete Moss - Golden Steps (multi-fired ceramic)

Or take a look at George Hainsworth's recent work (fab textures!) on view until 3 June 2018...

 

George Hainsworth - Under Canvas (oil/collage)

 

George Hainsworth - Moon reflection (oil)

And don't forget the sculpture garden...

Ropewalk Sculpture Garden

If you are in the vicinity it's a must see!