Jessie Chorley's Shop

Last week I spent a few days at West Dean College and some other days in London. It was the perfect getaway with the weather cooperating every single day. 

I wanted to start this week by showing you the beautiful shop of Jessie Chorley. I finally had the chance to visit her magical store, which is a lot like her work, filled with the most delicate details everywhere you look. This is one of those places where you can easily spend the afternoon rummaging around, so if you are planning a trip to London make sure to add this shop to your list.

I met Jessie a bit more than 2 years ago when I did a workshop with her, you can read all about it here.
I hope you liked the glimpse of her store, it is a really inspiring store.  Just in case you live really far away, she also has a lovely online store.

Jessie's shop is located at 158a Columbia Road
Times: Thu-Fri from 12 to 6
Sat- from 12 to 4:30
Sun- from 9-4:30

See you back on thursday with more inspiration from my trip.
Have a great week ahead,
Giova

Stitched Narratives with Jessie Chorley

I'm slowly, slowly showing you my week in France. I still want to reminisce about it and I don't want it to be over so quickly, even though it feels like a long time ago.

Today I'm introducing you, to our wonderful teacher Jessie Chorley and some of her work. To be able to learn from her was really a dream come true. She was an inspiration and a very helpful teacher (and quite patient I might add).

What I learned from her; was to be able to see things differently. To add a little piece of fabric here and there or that tiny little seed stitches do make a world of a difference.

 The beautiful sewing set she gave us.

Her bags of fabric pieces were like Mary Poppin's bag. What a delight to be able to rummage through her bags, everything was soooo beautiful.

 Here she is, showing us her work on the first day.

 The inside of the sewing set, I know you'd be curious to see the inside.

A fragment of one of her works.

What I realized from the workshop was that I love (LOVE) words, (as if I didn't know this before). During the workshop week, it just got reinforced that stitched words is what I love doing the most, now I just have to figure the best way to go about this love. Not an easy thing.

I'll show you next time what I did.

Have a super wonderful monday.
Giova