a little road trip

Yesterday, saw me heading off to St. Leonard's to pick up
some more vintage fabric from Way Ward Vintage Fabric.
I needed more of the ticking which I am using to make
cushions for the open house festive in Brighton and Hove, 
during May. It's a fantastic event, held over the first four
weekends of May, last year record 243 venues in the 
Brighton and Hove area opened their doors to exhibit 
the work of over 1,300 artists and makers and were
visited by over 230,000 people.

 The vintage silver fabric is from a factory in France and
 was woven and made into dresses for film stars in the 1930's.
 It is very beautiful but quite "itchy" so I am going to use it for
 making vintage style bags.
 As I was in the area we popped into the De La Warr Pavilion
 Bexhill.

This is one of my favourite places along  the south coast built in 1935 by
architects Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff, it was the first
public building in the UK to be built in the modernist style.  It was
commissioned by the 9th Earl De La Warr.

  We saw the exhibition (free entry ) Moving Portraits

excellent well worth a visit. It was such a gorgeous

         day we round it off with a lovely cuppa on the sea front.

However they have a great cafe in the De La Warr 

     Pavilion and you can sit on the balcony and enjoy the

amazing architecture and sea views.