A busy 10 days since my last post :training; calibrating microscope camera; freezing bryophytes and most importantly updating my job description at work. Mainly though Im still stitching my Wey...
I made good progress this weekend on my quilt which I hope to enter for SAQA Wide Horizons. This is the 12 x 12 " sample Indigo Waves I made for trying out stitching and Ive decided to donate it ...
I left work early on Friday to walk down to the Wood Quarry of David Nash. Nobody working but evidence of some interesting works at different stages of development. There were some sketch...
A couple of weeks ago the instillation of the David Nash sculptures at Kew commenced, starting with the winching into position of Oculus Block 2010 outside the Nash Conservatory . T...
On Saturday after lunch at the Level 7 Restaurant at Tate Modern went to see the Boetti exhibition. Amazing embroideries of maps but the monumental biro drawings (below)" bringin...
Staircase iii Do Ho SuA day at Tate Modern for my birthday yesterday - mainly for the Boetti exhibition that Margaret highlighted but with other treats besides. After a walk across the wobbly bridge...
Hardly the best birthday present - Ive just heard my entry for CQ@10 Indigo Mine has been rejected. While stressing that mainly dictated by the wall space available and not a reflect...
I signed up for the Sketchbook Project Limited Edition a long time ago ( how could I resist the Thread and Surface theme! ) but as usual am only just going to make the deadline of 30 April!&nbs...
Having visited many of the sights of Budapest on a previous stay, during my free morning before catching the plane I concentrated on the area close to my hotel which included the Museum of Apli...
Just back from a bryophyte conservation conference in Budapest, hosted by the Hungarian Natural history Museum. The roof of the entrance is amazing, taking as its inspiration the huge skeleton of a w...
Elizabeth Brimelow- Devon Red (detail) Elizabeth Brimelow - Winter Wheat (detail)Elizabeth Brimelow -Fen Elizabeth Brimelow- Shingle 1 & 2Elizabeth Brimelow - ElseworthA w...
Sandra van Velzen Rowing in the Morning Its not just the series of boats that shes been working on that draws me to the work of Sandra van Velzen although I love the way she works with photog...
I had an email from Uta Lenk a few weeks ago asking whether Id mind if she nominated me for a Liebster Blog Award for a small blog (less than 200 followers . Although Im not normally a fan of th...
Im feeling rather smug about how my summer pudding turned out - not only did it come out of the bowl neatly and in one piece but its delicious! Were thinking of making it an Easter tradition ( ...
At last , on Thursday we finally made it to the Hockney exhibition - well worth the anticipation. The queues were still snaking around the courtyard as we left at 9.30 and it was very crowded but as ...
A busy week at work while others were away; a weekend of travelling, visiting Ians parents; 2 hours of calming sewing, stitching curved inserts of Chinese indigo shibori into section...
With such glorious weather this weekend, we decided to go to Box Hill for a walk - Ian wanted to revisit the Gallops but as the signage has been altered ( my excuse, nothing to do with my map ...
Huge Excitement - my quilt Strindberg Shore in acCENT exhibition at the National Quilt Museum, Paducah, by the look of it hung next to a quilt by Elizabeth Brimelow!!
At the moment Im handstitching every evening while watching BBC4 - and wondering when Im enjoying the process so much why it always takes a fast approaching deadline to get me ...
Finished quilting and binding my red series of boats for first 4 months of CQ Journal Quilt Challenge - Jan to April below, bonus above. Rather than being pieced , the bonus is a digital ...
Ian was helping out at his parents this weekend clearing out their garage so made the most of some un-interupted creative time - sewing away and then realising it was 2.30 and better have ...
After spending Saturday giving the bay tree in the garden its first haircut in 3 years using 4 different pruning tools, I spent Sunday cutting on a different scale - bits of fabric with sc...
You might have noticed its been a bit quiet here lately - a combination of a stressful time at work, problems with blogger and having been away in the Lake District on a North West C...
More studies from my Sketchbook 2012 Project -this time of pebbles. In acrylics and acrylic ink In Watercolour Rubbings with crayons and graphitint pencils In ink (and squirts of water!) Using colou...
Im flagging a bit after an afternoon of pinning bits of indigo fabric up on the design wall for a new sea piece; making minute adjustments to placement of fabrics on red stick ; doing some...
Weve been walking by the sea everyday and enjoying it from different heights, perspectives, light conditions and wind levels. Im already thinking of whats in my indigo stash....
As promised, a selection of stone lifting cranes fom Portland
Bitterly cold but well wrapped up we headed by bus to Portland. The final stop was Avalanche Road in Southwell from where we walked along the coast path towards Portland Bill lighthouse, ...
Remember the new (or rather recycled ) piece I started to meet submission deadlines when I forgot to read the rules? I cut a section off this old quilt of mine from the 1990s Which Way Now...
Just posted my Grey Side of Life sketchbook to Brooklyn Art Library (the deadline was 31 January) after scanning it, taking photos and saying goodbye ( but at least I might see it ag...
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