Monday, August 22, 2011

Aprons: a journey!



Making aprons is where I started with wimcee in 2007. I used gingham and added ruffles and frills and deep pockets, with extra long, extra wide ties to make a big bow at the back, but the first aprons were already over-the-top, using a slightly mad combination of prints and a liberal application of pom-pom braid and rick-rack. Not a lot changes. My aprons are still much to the same formula; I've tried different techniques along the way to gather and attach frills and to secure the apron and improve the fit, but the look is much as it always has been...aprons with attitude. 
 





Why?



I grew up in a 50's/60's environment, at a time when there was a great deal of spoken and unspoken conflict about a woman's role in the world. My childhood was populated by some interesting, intelligent and gifted women who nonetheless subscribed to a view of society as male-dominated. This may have been confusing, but it was all certainly interesting - the dynamics were never dull!








My aprons are part retro reference, part social dialogue - no answers, just questions, with certainly some humour but also a great deal of affection thrown into the mix. Not everyone gets aprons, but if you do then I hope that mine will sing to you!


wimcee has aprons for sale, and all the usual accoutrements as well, online at etsy and madeit, as well as personally at not one but two lovely Heavenly Harvest markets at St Mary's, Kangaroo Point, in September and the Mamma's Market at Buderim later in the month, so watch this space for more details! 



Friday, August 12, 2011

Already August!

August is my favourite month - my birthday and the Brisbane ekka have always coincided, plus spring tends to be creeping in, in a glorious, sunshine-packed, blue skies-abounding, Brisbane way. With family members arriving for a visit from London, all these said August attributes have come together with interest and I am feeling very blessed!



Wimcee was at St Mary's "Heavenly Harvest Market" last Saturday, tomorrow (Sunday 14/8) I'll be back at Boutique Markets at Hamilton's Portside, and next Friday night (19/8)  I head into the CBD for BrisStyle twilight market in King George Square.




Lots of spring lovlies - little dresses, new skirts, over-the-top aprons, statement piece cushions. Come and visit me, be-friend wimcee whim's on facebook too, and very soon my web site will be up, up and away!