Upholstery

Sally Nencini 'Mayo Chair'
I re-upholstered this lovely little 1940's chair and re-waxed the wood. For the top cover I machine stitched the leaf outline and then hand embroidered the inner leaf. I call it the 'Mayo Chair' as I did the hand work in Mayo, west Ireland, and it somehow reminds me of there.









Sally Nencini 'Come To Life Chair'
This is a family collaboration as it is a poem written by Sadie Nencini age 8, Peter designed the layout and design of the words and I hand embroidered the type onto a vintage french hemp sack. The chair was reupholstered with fibre and felt and a newly sprung seat.







Shadow Chair 1
Here I re-upholstered the armchair with fibre and horse hair and re sprung the seat and back.I machine embroidered the top cover using an image of autumn branches. I projected the black and white image onto the chair so it destorted over the seat and arms and followed the outline of the shadow with a stitched line.





Shadow Chair 2
This is done in a similar way but using an image of maple leaves, the fabric is a hemp linen blend.







Sally Nencini 'Tuft Chair'
This was Granty's chair and had been upholstered in brown velvet and foam. I striped it back to the frame and re upholstered it using traditional methods (horse hair and fibre)and recovered it in this vintage linen/silk stripe. Using matching coloured embroidery thread I hand tufted the front arm scrolls and did a running stitch in sections at the back, arms and sides.







Sally Nencini Screen
I striped and recovered this screen using a vintage printed fabric on the back. I took the images from the print of leaping dear, leaves and Aztec shapes, enlarged them and made a picture for the front of a big leaping dear kicking up leaves.I used a mixture of machine and hand embroidery and applique.Quite hard to see in the picture!



Sally Nencini 1950's stool
I picked this little stool up in a junk shop in Peckham and recovered it in this vintage fabric.

Knitting

Above are 4 Knitted dollies I made from felting lambswool. I knitted the bodies by machine after doing a term of experimental machine knitting at Morley College.



This is a little bag I made for my son Syd. He had done a drawing of a dinosaur which I made into a knitted pattern repeat. I then felted it, knitted a picot edge and sewed it all together.



Here is the pattern made into a little pillow.



Knitted Christmas decorations!

Bags and Cushions

Here are a couple of bags I made out of vintage linen tea towels - fully lined with an inner pocket.



These bags I made from vintage alpine curtains and the other from a linen tablecloth.

Vintage Fabrics

Sold by delightfuldesignerfabrics on eBay.



The above 3 fabrics are vintage Svenskt Tenn designed by Josef Frank. These were for sale on eBay. I just love these botanical prints and the colours are so vibrant. Some of these prints are available from Libertys store, London



I love this print, got some lengths on eBay which I have made into bags, cushions etc and upholstered a small 1950's stool.



This nursery print from the 1950's was a bed spread. A crazy combination of images that seem to work together.



I like elements of this print like the cart wheels.



Cute 1960/70 cat print.



This was another vintage bedspread dating from the early sixties listed on eBay.





I like these tree shaped trees, like children would draw if asked them to draw a tree.



This is a vintage Swedish textile I missed on eBay, I like the naive tree style and the inner detail.



Lovely 1950's print, I used this as my inspiration for the 'Mayo chair' above. I bought it from hideawaydesigns on eBay.





1950's atomic shapes.