'Bag lady' selling goods.A COLLECTION of handmade bags will be on sale at a craft fair in Brighouse this weekend. Brighouse Theatre Productions will host a fundraising Antiques, Collectables and Craft Fair on Saturday at the Civic Hall. Beryl Smith, fondly known as 'the bag lady', will host a stall with her handmade goods. She has been making bags for as long as she can remember and incorporates quilting quilting, form of needlework, almost always created by women, most of them anonymous, in which two layers of fabric on either side of an interlining (batting) are sewn together, usually with a pattern of back or running (quilting) stitches that hold the layers into her craft, each one taking up to three hours to complete. She will be joined by around 20 other craft makers at the Civic Hall fair from 10am until 4pm. The event has been timed to help the people of Brighouse to do some of their Christmas shopping on their own doorstep and to support Brighouse traders. Tickets will also be on sale for the Brighouse Theatre Productions Carol Concert, on Thursday, December 10, at the Central Methodist Church and pantomime pantomime or mime (păn`təmīm) [Gr.,=all in mimic], silent form of the drama in which the story is developed by movement, gesture, facial expression, and stage properties. Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp is a two-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Popeye Color Specials series, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on April 7 1939 by Paramount Pictures. which runs from January 26 to 30 at Brighouse Civic Hall. |
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