More teaching this week and we’re now into show week for Scunthorpe Little Theatre Club‘s long awaited production of ‘Gaslight‘
It was first cast back in January 2020 which seems a very long time ago. I’m doing the props for this one which mostly involves dressing the set to look like a dark, gloomy, overstuffed Victorian parlour and I’m glad to finally get all the bits and pieces I’ve been accumulating for it out of the house.
I also made several local charity shops very happy by taking a large number of huge, old fashioned and frankly unsaleable pictures off their hands!
It’s been quite a challenge to find Victorian looking bits and pieces. My choice of décor is almost exclusively mid-century, so I’ve been very limited in what I’ve been able to source from home and our show budget only runs to charity shops, not antiques centres.
I’ve done my best but I’m hoping that the ten yard rule most definitely applies.
While I was waiting for the set to go up I managed to get a little further on with May’s Move It On Project, the Casalguidi work. From here:
to here:
Thankfully I’ve nearly finished the overcast trailing now and I can get onto the flowers.
I also got stuck into all those French knots and have finished the In The Stitch Zone Stumpwork Garden Workshop garden path, all apart from some little white or lilac French knots to suggest flower heads on the low growing plants and some taller weeds around the edges.
Note the lone raised stem band courgette on the left. It needs some friends, leaves and stems by Monday!
Under A Topaz Sky 
The set looks wonderful. X
Thank you so much. That really means a lot after a very long, hard and frustrating day!
I love the set! It looks amazing.
Thank you! I’m hoping to get some better still life shots later in the week when we don’t have a stage full of people setting lights and generally milling around!
The set looks very authentic.
The stitching looks great and I’m sure the courgettes will have grown rapidly the way they do!
I’d best get stitching then!!!
The set looks just the right level of cluttered heaviness – well done.
And the path looks very inviting..
Thank you. that’s good to hear. I was concerned it wasn’t quite busy enough but you have to balance that with the needs of the actors moving around the space!
I haven’t known that you also make stage design/decoration. This is beautiful, an incredible period scene. And as always your stitch work fascinating. Thank you, Love, nia
Thank you, Nia! I only do the stage work as a hobby but I love being able to create a period look to a set and I’m really pleased with this one.
You are welcome, this is wonderful hobby and also so creative. I really love following your works. Have a great day, Love from İstanbul, nia