Our Working Studio

Hello, thanks for popping by, please come in to our humble little working studio.....

Yes, I know, my desk is super-tidy, isn't it? I try to keep it presentable as we do have a steady trickle of lovely visitors into our studio room throughout the week. Plus, number 24 is soooooo messy and chaotic at the moment, it helps to know that I can escape here and breath in the calm atmosphere.

Even though we're approaching the shortest day of the year, the light in this little first floor room is still wonderful, especially in the mornings. Sometimes I just sit at my desk and gaze at my surroundings. Marvelling at my good fortune at finding this space and feeling delighted by how much it has changed in the nine months that we've been here.

I love that my precious Lloyd Loom chairs sit there like old friends having a relaxed conversation with each other.

And of course, I love all the yarny goodness here. It still seems to me like a little bit of a heavenly dream to find myself occupying this room.

Yes, do have a good look around, wander over to Tracy's working space and take a peek. It's much more lived in than my end of the room, cos she is able to spend so much more time here than me.

I absolutely love haberdashery of any sort, and Tracy has haberdashery in abundance. Boxes of vintage buttons and trims....

....and little pots, trays, tins and jars of buttons and bells everywhere.

Sometimes when Tracy is out, I potter around at her end of the room, taking sneaky glimpses at her work in progress.

There is something very, very pleasing about somebody elses work in progress.

There is creative energy hovering over every surface.

Tracy is such a grafter, a different character from me altogether. She forms an idea, grabs materials and kerpow!! Magic happens! She works so hard to make her ideas successful. Hours and hours and hours of meticulous cutting, piecing, stitching, embellishing, finishing. Her work is exquisite, and her attention to detail is mind blowing.

I admire her enormously, whilst at the same time thinking that she is possibly just a little bit crazy. All that work. All those stitches. Day after day of it....I don't know quite how she does it.

I admit (just to you, don't tell) that I am a little bit jealous of the time she gets to spend in our lovely little working studio. My time there at the moment is sporadic and fleeting. I feel like I have so many balls to juggle at the moment, and my Studio Ball often accidentally falls and rolls away. I am working on it though, this juggling act, trying to shape it all a bit differently if I can.

Well, it's been lovely having you visit, such a nice chat. Come back soon, won't you? We are opening our door tomorrow (Sunday 8th, 12-4) and again next Sunday 15th if you are local to the Attic and fancy a little pootle in this wonderful room of ours. Pop in and say hello, we'd love to see you.

There are more details about our Open Studio on Tracy's blog here.

xxx

♥.....more snippets from the Attic.....♥

Open Studio :: June 2013

De-Lighted

The Studio Story

Comments

[Ada Bea]

I love this colourful, energetic, inspirational place! :) x

[Sara Jenkins]

It's lovely, and I love the fact that I was able to visit when we came to Yarndale. Bit of a long way to come up from Sussex though - but I fell in love with Skipton, and can't wait to come back. Enjoy your weekend. x

[Angela]

Lovely, cheerful, bright and creative are all words that come to mind when I get to 'visit' your studio. Thanks so much for the tour! :)

[sew]

And my claim to fame is that you have visited my 'room of doom' :)

[Lisa G.]

It's all very charming.

[Angela-Southern USA]

Best wishes on the open studio days! It's like stepping inside a rainbow, of craftiness! Love it,wish I could pop in to say hello, sigh, in spirit then. Tracey's work space looks very much like mine right now, creative chaos. :)

[Julie]

Oh Lucy, I love the colour everywhere! Such a beautiful, creative space!!

[Gina]

Oh how I just love you little window decorations/curtains or whatever they're called. Care to show a bit closer?

[Christine]

We have just woken up to a bright, sunny Sunday morning here in Queensland, Australia. I would love to visit your studio today, but, I will be there in spirit. Have fun all of you.

[LaLalinda]

Thank you for a glimpse of your wonderful studio. It is so colourful and inspiring, filled with crafty bliss!Magic, thanks for inviting us for a peek!
x

[Rachael Iddon]

Hi Lucy, popping in to see you tomorrow as part of a much needed day of escape with two of my lovely friends. What's your tipple? I can offer you a little bottle of damson gin or bramble and apple gin or maybe a bit of fresh eggnog? Seriously, what do you fancy? If you email me tonight, I'll bring it along.

[Nies Henstra-Sagel, Boskoop, the Netherlands.]

Nice to see you also use the Ikea cd-rack(?) to store yarn... Just like me. Love the things you do. Hope to start something again after I have had an operation on my hand(s).

[Joy Abbott]

Your studio is cool x

[Dina]

My dream is to create such a studio room for myself one day. One that will contain all my expanding stash, my treasured tools, the sewing machine I dream of, my library. Oh, that beautiful dream :) And seeing your lovely place makes me cling harder to my dream. Merry times to you and yours Lucy.

[Pauline]

Love your Lloyd Loom chairs - want to sell them? I would just love to own them.
Do enjoy reading your blog. I have spent many happy days in your part of the world and love it. If I tell you that I live in Uplyme, just up from Lyme Regis where does it make you think of?

[Shannon Mesker]

Wish that I lived in Skipton. If be at your studio every day. I love and admire your work.

[Clare]

The studio is looking lovely with so much crafty goodness.
Clare x

[maypole]

Adore, adore, adore, the colours, I just love them. Thank you for the tour x