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Phillippa banks on Cash In The Attic show to help with DVD project
Phillippa Phillips and Stuart Phillips of Woodston, Peterborough. Photo: Paul Franks/Peterborough ET
A WOMAN from Peterborough with a passion for embroidery has sewn up success on one of the nation’s favourite antiques programmes.
Phillippa Phillips will appear on BBC1 daytime show Cash In The Attic next week, after she sold off the family heirlooms and antiques that had been cluttering her house.
Mrs Phillips (50) and crane-driving husband Stuart (62), of Tower Street, Woodston, Peterborough, applied to the producers to go on the show to raise money and publicity for her project to create a DVD, called Free Machine Embroidery for the Complete Beginner.
The show was filmed 18 months ago and since then eagle-eyed neighbours, who spotted presenter and former newsreader Angela Rippon in the couple’s back garden, have been asking when it will be broadcast.
Mrs Phillips, who works in the haberdashery department at John Lewis, said: “I wanted to make the DVD about embroidery and I used to watch Cash In The Attic with my mother, so I wrote off to the producers to apply.
“They wrote back straight away and came in June 2010 to do a recce. The crews then returned in August to film for the day.
“We had Angela Rippon and the expert John Cameron come to the house. They were both very professional and really helped put us at ease.
“Angela was lovely and as it was a nice day we all had lunch outside, which was very enjoyable.
“The neighbours must have been watching, as people from up and down the street were asking if we had had Angela Rippon in our garden. They have been asking when the show was going to be broadcast since then.
“We only have a small house, so it was a tight squeeze with camera crews and sound men in.
“In September we went to the auction in Derby. There were a few other families who were filming as well, so we met them.
“I have never been to an auction before and we were at the back of the room, but it was enjoyable.”
Mrs Phillips said she could not reveal the amount raised by their trip to the auction, but added: “We did manage to meet the target we set.
“I was sorry to sell a snuff box that had belonged to my grandfather and there was an embroidered picture that belonged to my great-great-grandfather that we discovered had an interesting history to it.
“I had collected quite a few bits that I didn’t mind losing before hand, because they only have a day to film.
“The DVD is going well so far, although it is a niche market. I took a year out to make it and directed, filmed and edited it myself.
“I am hoping I will be able to take time off work on Monday so I can watch the show. If I can, I am sure a few of our friends will also come round to watch it.”
For more information about Mrs Phillip’s DVD, visit www.phillippaphillips.com
Mrs Phillips’ appearance on Cash In The Attic will be broadcast at 11.30am on Monday, February 6 on BBC One.
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