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Monday 29 October 2018

A Bigger Australian Splash wins Visitors' Choice - speechless

I am thrilled to have won the Visitors' Choice award at the Richmond and Kew Quilters' exhibition this weekend for the quilt "A Bigger Australian Splash". The good opinion of fellow practitioners and peers makes the 250 hours of work worth it!

Blogged about here, here and here. I'll need to get some decent photographs of it now!

Friday 26 October 2018

When the decor in the holiday cottage matches your holiday project..............


In Wales, staying at the wonderful Pipistrelle cottage, another quirky property from Under the Thatch . Before we came I decided to visit Milli at Tribe Yarns - what a superb range of high-quality, quirky, artist-made yarns. Milli's blog post about craft activities being a healthy addiction rang very true.

I succumbed to the delight of two Riverknits yarns. After the stresses of our own canalboat holiday last year, and knowing how much mess can be created when hand-dying, the thought that this is a business based on a canalboat had me intrigued.

Starry night

and Salzbrise


came home with me,  to be used to make a Zick Zack scarf.

It was destined to be, as part of the decor in the cottage matches the yarns perfectly.




















Wednesday 24 October 2018

Sunrise in Wales






Can this really be late October in Wales?
















A week away, in Powys, so much sunshine, I've brought completely the wrong wardrobe!























Friday 19 October 2018

Why have I been so inactive?

....because I've been campaigning for

 


I'll be there, wearing my Blue and yellow Beuret - will you?