4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[A chickychickychick-ENN!!]

Is anybody watching this on Channel 4? It is rather lovely, but I'm a bit miffed that she's 'middle classing' it up a bit.

 

Last night, she 'made' a lampshade, a fire poker, a knitted seaside draught excluder and a hand-tied posy, showed off a granny square blanket and showed how a cushion could be made from a jumper.

 

The draught excluder she actually got an ace knitter to make for her, having shown she could knit twenty rows really slowly. Not exactly homemade, so much as artisan. It was a couple of knitted fish, two beach huts and a sandcastle, which came apart and stuck back together with magnets. You'd have to be a fab knitter to make it or else it would be about £50 on etsy.

 

The cushion she made from a £10 second-hand jumper. TEN POUNDS!!! Is she mad?

 

And the blanket was £20. Mine was £1.95 from a charity shop in Lowestoft.

 

I've been doing this stuff for years and while it is a lovely programme to watch, her prices are a bit charity-shops-in-the-Cotswolds-and-Chelsea.

 

Watch people with money inflating the price of handicrafts and materials and buying it all in instead of it being the mend and make do ethic it should be.

 

Loved the draught excluder though.

 

http://www.channel4.com/4homes/on-tv/kirstie-s-homemade-home/kirstie-s-homemade-home-living-room-playroom-suppliers-09-04-30_p_1.html

 

Edit: Yep. £50 - BUT this is just the kit - not the item, and it's not even a complete kit!!! :

http://www.thewoolsanctuary.com/prod2.cfm?product=61955

 

Double edit: http://www.channel4.com/4homes/design-style/shopping-guides/garden-accessories-buys-for-a-seaside-garden-09-04-27_p_11.html

Enamel mugs £6.50! Storm lantern £25?! I got half a dozen storm lanterns from the market for a quid each. Exactly the same, but in blues, greens and yellows. And my enamel mugs were £3 each. I bought plain ones and enamel painted them. I'll post them in crafty fingers. Blimey, this woman has money to burn with the tip of her hot, posh new poker!

[JM]

A cashmere draught excluder?? And there I was thinking that cashmere is for best!!

 

I made a really good draught excluder from a couple of lengths of water pipe lagging, which I then covered with s"Ooops, word censored!" material - the two bits of lagging sit inside 2 tubes of material either side of the door, and the two tubes are joined by another bit of material that goes under the door - so the excluder moves with the door - if you can imagine what I mean. (OK not so pretty as the lovely cashmere village scape, but very practical!!)

[ubereglu]

It was a bit ridiculous last night I have to agree. Although I did like the bit where she met Kaffe Fassett, I'd been to one of his exhibitions before and I love the way he uses colour-but why, oh why, was that playroom painted such a boring colour? It looked like my old dentist's waiting room!

[Charlottechicken]

I'm wondering why the playroom had a very large S*x Pistols poster on the wall, with the very famous slogan on

 

I am enjoying this series more as it goes on, and I loved Kaffe Fassett's dining room

[Cyber Chook]

I like it for encouraging a have-a-go attitude, but, it's been going slightly bonkers recently - I laughed out loud at Kirsty's proud and cheerful "only ten quid" comment for the jumper 'she' cut up to make the cushion cover. TEN QUID!!!!! ONLY!! Clearly a bargain.

 

And in the play room, I couldn't imagine for a second little children being allowed to, say, play tug-of-war with that lovely blanket (drool), and smash those lovely old boats over each other's heads or paint them with finger paints .

 

The trouble is, I'm not clear on its agenda - is it saying "It's fun to be original and creative, give it a whirl?", or is it saying "It can be fun to get things cheaply, you don't have to pay a fortune"?

 

Unfortunately, it can come across as more like "Gosh, isn't thrift great! This recession thingy's a super excuse to go mad with Cath Kidston". Overall I do like it, the crafts are interesting, and I think Kirsty's good in it, but it's going a bit too upmarket, which is a shame really.

 

Caroline

[Couperwife]

I loved that draft excluder, but I bet it could be very easily made

 

hmmm , im gonna try

 

if im not back this side of summer, you know where I am

 

I agree it seems to be "Kirsties homemade but rather expensive home"

 

I wonder if the idea is that you pick one or 2 of the ideas that she shows, rather than do exactly what she does

 

cathy

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[Lesley]

I actually managed to watch this one! - but couldn't find the previous thread, to come and say so. I've watched the first one on 4oD and just need to watch the second one now.

 

I agree that it is a very odd format but I enjoy watching the craft bits - Carl took a very keen interest in it once he discovered that she has the same car as him!

 

His is used as a workhorse though - not a Chelsea Tractor

[kitchens]

.... talking of cashmere I was watching BBC Breakfast at Christmas and they were interviewing Sheherazade Goldsmith (Zac Goldsmith's wife) as she had written a new book on how to discover a greener christmas, hand crafted gifts, natural decorations and traditional recepies ... anyway she was waffling on about how she has a drawer where she keeps old cashmere jumpers that were hers or the childrens and that she makes them into christmas decorations. Nice idea ... but I don't actually own any cashmere.

 

It's not fair is it really these mega rich people get book deals at a whisper of their surname.

 

I can just imagine her giving her sister in law Jemima Goldsmith a handmade christmas present made out of one of her old jumpers. Do these people think we are really that stupid to believe this is what they do

[Guest]

I'm wondering why the playroom had a very large S*x Pistols poster on the wall, with the very famous slogan on

 

...

 

"Never mind the ....."

 

DH noticed that too, hardly appropriate for a child's room was it!

[Cyber Chook]

We were all sitting watching the programme. My husband's dyslexic, and he read the Pistols' poster on that playroom wall as "Never Mind the Balloons".

[A chickychickychick-ENN!!]

 

I can just imagine her giving her sister in law Jemima Goldsmith a handmade christmas present made out of one of her old jumpers. Do these people think we are really that stupid to believe this is what they do

 

You know, they DO. Posh money isn't the same as made money. Posh money is often famous for scrimping despite family money. The royals for example give each other skinflint presents for Christmas. I randomly know a fair few posh and they're not diamonds for Christmas types at all. Quite the opposite, refreshingly.

 

I think Sherererererererezade genuinely wants to be a greeny. Hubby Zac is editor of the Ecologist magazine and a Tory green advisor. OK, it's not woman-on-the-street green-ness or necessity scrimping, but I think her heart's in the right place.

 

Unlike Kirstie, who I think is probably lovely, and do love watching, but just wish she'd get a bit more of a grip on most people's reality.

 

And don't get me started on Gwyneth Paltrow's GOOP project - a weekly newsletter focusing on what to MAKE/DO/GET/BE or where to GO. Nothing is less than a thousand dollars or a Nigella kitchen full of expensive tat cooking prep. She is one shallow wannabe hippy grrrrfest of frustration. Great actress, but in real life, out of touch.

[A chickychickychick-ENN!!]

We were all sitting watching the programme. My husband's dyslexic, and he read the Pistols' poster on that playroom wall as "Never Mind the Balloons".

 

I love that. I want HIS poster.