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Thank you so much to everyone who visited The Grove on Saturday 14th December for our very first Open House event. It felt really special to open the doors to the Merchant & Mills home and welcome you all into our world.
Since buying and renovating the house in 2021, it’s been a canvas for our interior ideas and projects; a gallery for Carolyn’s collection of art, furniture, trinkets and treasures and, of course, host to the many wonderful creative retreat guests that we welcome each month of the year. Until now it’s been a bit of a midnight garden. Tucked away, unassuming, beyond Rye railway. Opening our doors on Saturday made it feel like a home, one where our ideas and inspirations live. And now yours too.
Decorating The Grove for Christmas allowed us to explore our ideas for a more sustainable and mindful approach to festive décor. With ‘less is more’ in mind, we gathered together fabric scraps and offcuts and went out foraging around Rye for branches and foliage. The result managed to be both minimal and magical.
Nearly all of these decorations can be made for free; quickly and simply using fabric waste and items found out on Wintery walks.
You can find patterns for the home textiles we've used throughout The Grove in our Grove Creations PDF Pattern Bundle, including the patterns for: A Duvet Set, Pillowcase, Quilt Sofa/Bed Topper & a Relaxed Blind.
Pictured below:
- Stockings and drawstring present sacks, both patterns from our Less Than A Metre collection that can be made with offcuts and remnants.
- Garlands made using strips of offcut fabrics to decorate the fireplaces and dining table. Our garlands have been made using offcuts of Crabapple Handwoven Cotton Check.
- Foliage foraged from the forest floor to adorn the fireplace.
- A tree decorated simply with fabric scraps tied around the branches.
- A length of unhemmed cloth, draped as a table cloth. We chose our Bitter Cocoa Garden Party Linen.
- Strings of bunting made using fabric scraps from the sewing studio.
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