Sew & Tell Stallholder Application

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Sew & Tell presents A Very Crafty Christmas

We're back! 

We are thrilled to let you know that we have a date for the second instalment of Sew & Tell: Handmade and Hand-Me-Down Fair.

Put it in your diaries folks! 

Sew & Tell presents A Very Crafty Christmas

Saturday 8 December

9am – 1:30pm

At the oh so beautiful A & I Hall, Bangalow

Spread the word!

The first Sew & Tell!

Well, the first Sew & Tell Fair was amazingly awesome! We had the best day ever and it looked like everyone else was having a lovely time too. 

Massive thanks to our stallholders for making and collecting such an incredible assortment of treasures and for creating such beautiful stalls. 

Thanks to the team of volunteers from Heritage House (Bangalow's Museum) for making the tea and cakes. We're so happy that they sold every single one, raising some much needed funds. 

Thanks to the folks at Frankie for donating the posters that we made into bags and to all our mates who helped us out on the day. 

Thanks also to everyone who brought along items for our Free Stall and our Unfinished Business Stall. 

And of course, thanks to all the lovely craft and vintage enthusiasts who turned up to check it all out. We were completely overwhelmed by the number of people that came, from far and wide (Coffs, Port Maquarie, Casino, Brisbane, Tweed Heads etc.) and the incredible feeling of goodwill that filled the hall all throughout the day. 

Sew! It was so much fun that we're going to do it all again towards the end of the year for Christmas. We'll be posting info on here and our Facebook page shortly! Group hugs all round. 

enjoying tea and sandwiches from the Heritage House team 

 our mate Kel was on the Janome making bags from Frankie posters

chillin' in the man cave 

 free chocolate crackles

Thanks to our mates Tim and Caroline for taking these pics. 

Sew & Tell in the Sydney Morning Herald

We're in Metro in the Sydney Morning Herald today! And they said such nice things!

Profile: Carmel Debreuil of "Put a Word on It"

Name: Carmel Debreuil
Stall name: Put a Word on It
What are you selling at Sew & Tell? Paintings and portraits

Q. What is your craft / creative outlet of choice?
A. I paint portraits and paintings in acrylic on ply. I'v done it for years and I love it.

Q. Who is your craft idol?
A. As an artist my idol was my dad, as a crafter it would be my mum - she is an amazing quilter. Plus there are many bloggers who do trashion that I really admire. There is some unreal talent out there.

Q. Who taught you to craft?
A. I was taught to paint and draw by my dad and to sew and cook by my mum.

Q. Who or what inspires you to be creative?
A. My family is all very creative and I'm surrounded by a large group of very creative friends. I create best with music as my companion. And also I come up with a lot of ideas just before bed or while driving in a silent car.

Q. Which talent would you most like to have?
A. I would love to be able to sing.

Q. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A. Anything with my immediate and extended family and also my friends. But I also love the solitary time I spend while painting.

Q. What is your greatest fear?
A. Loss of family and friends.

Q. What is your current state of mind?
A. Frantic! I'm a bit ADHD so I'm always trying to cram as much as I can in during the day.

Q. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
A. My kids, my marriage and my passion for life and all that comes with it.

Q. What is your most treasured possession?
A. It sounds corny, but love. I recently lost my father and it's amazing how true the saying is "you can't take it with you". I have many material items that I love but to gather around my father's hospital bed and know he was surrounded by love, was an amazing experience.
So definitely the love of family and friends is truly my most treasured possession. And my 20 year old easel from france! hehe

Q. Where is your ideal place to live?
A. Exactly where I am now. I love Australia and I'm so glad to be here. I immigrated from Canada which I also love, but Australia felt like home from the moment the plane touched down.

Q. Favourite holiday destination?
A. Going camping anywhere. Give me a fire and a tent and some water and I'm pretty much happy. I would love to play Survivor!

Q. If money were no object, where would you take off to?
A. Well, I'd take the family and go on an around the world trip. I'd love them to experience Europe, I'd love to spend more time in New York, and I could probably handle some time in a place like the Maldives and Tahiti. And if you send me to Japan or Korea, I'll start eating on arrival and won't stop till they squeeze my fat butt on the plane out.

Q. Can you tell us about your best vintage find?
A. Oh wow. I've got hundreds of amazing vintage items. I recently bought a fantastic vintage Merivale dress for about fifty bucks and I think it's worth about $400! I also have a great handkerchief dress from the 70's that I got at a garage sale in Byron for $10 - I get compliments every time I wear it. I also recovered an old chair that I found under a house - it looks retro and brand new at the same time!

Q. What is your favourite thing to cook for your friends?
A. Lately it's a toss up between Korean BBQ or a sport meal of Buffalo Chicken Wings and Jalapeno popper dip.

Q. What is your motto?
A. Blood is thicker than piss. That was my dad's actually. I think its about family, but it could just be about beer.

How you can get involved!

Two more sleeps! That's all that stands between us, you and a hall full of cool crafty stuff!

And sew…with the event approaching fast we wanted to fill you in on a few new stalls we've concocted that we hope you will get involved with!

UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Do you have a cupboard full of craft projects that you have been trying to finish off for years…like that latch hook project you started in the 80’s? Or the Jenny Kee style jumper you started knitting?

We have asked our stallholders to clean out their craft cupboards and donate their unfinished business and we'd like you to do the same! Just bring any unfinished projects along to Sew & Tell and put them on the unfinished business stall.

All items on the unfinished business stall will be free and you don’t have to return to sender. All you have to do is promise to finish them off and post a pic of the finished item on the Sew & Tell Facebook page. 

THE FREE STALL
Yes, we're going to have a stall where everything is free and you can donate to this one too!

The idea is that we'll put a bunch of items on a table (fruit, vegetables, herbs, chilli's, wool, threads, badges, crafty items etc) and it's all free but if you take something we encourage you to do a random act of kindness for someone at some stage during the day – like pay for a coffee for the person behind you.

If you have something to donate to the free stall (maybe your orange or lime tree is loaded, maybe you have some great vintage piece that you don't wear anymore) then just bring it along and put it on the stall.

What a great way to spread the love and goodwill around the local hood!

THE MAN CAVE
We are having a Man Cave for the men to respite from the craft and vintage worship taking place in the rest of the hall. There'll be comfy seating, Smith Journal mags to read and from about 10.30am we'll even have a barber present - Jack The Snipper - to attend to the fellas locks.

BAGS
If you are coming - and we hope you are! - please bring a bag with you. Try not to forget! But if you do, our mates at Frankie Magazine have very kindly donated some posters to us that we are stitching into simple recycled bags so we will also have these on hand.

Profile: Janne & Angie Scott of "Scott's Are Us!"

Names: Janne Scott & Angie Scott
Stall name: Scotts Are Us!
What are you selling at Sew & Tell? Janne has floor rugs made from antique batik sarongs, hand made sun shelters from block print Indian cotton, second hand delights, fashion samples and random cool stuff! Angie has edible wares for and from urban spaces.

Q. What is your craft / creative outlet of choice?
A. (Janne) Interpretive Dance, sewing, pom poms & painting

Q. Who is your craft idol?
A. (Janne) Too many to list… my Nanna, my Mum, my sister Angie – she’s stalling with me & she’s amazing! Jenny Kee, too many!

Q. Who taught you to craft?
A. (Angie) She would probably disagree but it was our Mum, 4 kids under 5 - we made a lot of stuff, and played a lot of board games.

Q. Who or what inspires you to be creative?
A. (Janne) Kookaburras & Wine… traveling, music, great fashion & good times with my talented peeps who are all amazing at their respective crafts from building, writing songs, creating festivals, designing fashion to something as simple as making a kick arse sandwich – there can be craftsmanship in almost anything.

Q. Which talent would you most like to have?
A. (Janne) Invisibility… I guess that’s more of a magic power…. 

(Angie) I would love to be able to knit and read knitting patterns, but I would also have to wish for more discipline (is that a talent?) ie. to be able to finish all those half done projects.

Q. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A. (Janne) Kookaburras & Wine while wearing a Hermes scarf and uggies with people I love

Q. What is your greatest fear?
A. (Janne) Beige

Q. What is your current state of mind?
A. (Angie) Panic that I haven't completed my stuff for the Fair.

Q. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
A. (Janne) Haven’t achieved it yet

Q. What is your most treasured possession?
A. (Angie) I have a few bits and pieces from both of my grandmothers, hand written recipes book (full of fruit cake recipes, and notes on how to hand rear lambs), kitchen canisters, cake tins, a pair of earrings, a leather clutch that was my great grandmothers.

Q. Where is your ideal place to live?
A. (Angie) A cottage by the beach, with a big veggie patch.

Q. Favourite holiday destination?
A. (Janne) India is the next one, so maybe India….

Q. If money were no object, where would you take off to?
A. (Angie) I would go straight to New York, then over to Europe to visit friends in London and Italy, home via India for a few weeks (you did say money was no object right?).

Q. Can you tell us about your best vintage find?
A. (Janne) My old Cazal Sunglasses come close to being unbeatable

Q. What is your favourite thing to cook for your friends?
A. (Janne) I don’t really cook much nowadays so… Red Wine, Jatz & Coon on the couch! 

(Angie) I cook a lot of jams and chutneys seasonally, then end up giving them away in a frenzy because I have too much.

Q. What is your motto?
A. (Angie) Well when apprehensive about something I want to do or achieve my sister and I often joke that 'dumber people than us have done bigger things than this'.Sometimes we are our own worst enemies, and it's good to keep in mind that plenty of ordinary people have achieved greatness.

Sew & Tell in the Echo

Hey Hey! We are in the Byron Echo today. Woohoo. Thanks Echo!!

The Rebirth of Craft

Did you read about "The Rebirth Of Craft" in the Northern Star on the weekend? The story featured lots of Sew & Tell crafters including our own Vicky Furber on the cover! Thanks Northern Star!

DIY Banner

Eight pillow slips from the Salvos, a few hours of cutting and sewing and hey presto - DIY banner! Look out for this sign in front of the A&I Hall in Bangalow on Saturday.