knee high to a grasshopper
The day after I went to Bekonscot it was the Lates night at the Science Museum, and I got to see my stitched self on display, along with 258 others. There's a big report with loads of photos on the Stitch London blog, but here are some photos I took.
Here's a blurry photo of mini-me.
I was tucked away at the back of the bottom shelf, away from all my friends (sniff), who were on the shelf above me.
Sarah Dickson (green t-shirt), Sarah McIntyre (stripey dress), Gary Northfield (dressed as Italian Spiderman), Alex Milway (in his yeti suit), Cliodhna Lyons (in the starry t-shirt)
One thing that interested me about seeing them all was seeing all the different techniques people used to do their faces and hair.
Some were drawn and some were stitched
some used buttons and some used applique
and some were just downright odd!
(yes, that is someone knitting their own head. And a tree in a bikini.)
More stitched selves here and here.
The monthly lates events at the Science Museum are pretty good fun. It's lovely wandering through the mathematics gallery to the sound of people singing opera, or silent discoing underneath a spacecraft, and - unlike pretty much any other museum I can think of - not only are there several tables on various floors selling booze (instead of in just one place), but they also trust that adults can be grown-up and you can take your drinks around the galleries. I don't know of any other museums that let you do that, in London, anyway. However, they also close off the main staircase, which is annoying and leads to much high jinks with the lifts, as they end up stopping erratically at different floors in random order, depending on where the button has been pressed. With only two lifts it can take the best part of ten minutes just to go up one floor, and if one of you gets in a different lift by mistake you'll probably lose each other for the rest of the night. But if you don't find each other, chances are you'll run into other people you know. It's that kind of night.
(Also, I knocked a few more points off my uberlist! Maybe I should do a proper update post. If anyone else cares.)