Pleasures of a wet bank holiday weekend

Lots of time to quilt

Stippling may be a bit of a cliche, but it is fun to do and works well with complex feathers.

Too long a break, what have I achieved?

Too much going on with the building project to allow much time for art or sitting, but that should be no excuse for not blogging. What have I been doing?

Attended the anti-Trump demo, and broke my wooden spoon during the “Make the noise” part

Enjoyed more grids at the Manchester Art Gallery

Made journal quilts for May, June, July and August on the theme of abstracted birds: swan, heron, bittern, grebe. Hand-dyed, rust dyed and screen printed re-purposed sheet.

Went to the last art classes of the term, here we developed our drawings from here, with drawing, collage or paint

Learned to live with this

Baked sourdough bread

Made jewellery on a two day course with Penny Akester

Day 1, silver clay. A pendant cast from a conker case

Day 2, silver sheet. Earrings made to replace a loved and lost pair

Appreciated the beauty of our water lily, which did not flower last year