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Monday 25 September 2017

Finishing lines

I have been in Rotterdam, supporting my incredible sister and her partner as they represented Australia in the amateur team at the World Triathlon Finals.
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They both crossed the finish line in very respectable times,  and were still up for a big celebration in the evening.
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Lots of stitching inpiration in the photos of the pontoon where the swimming leg started
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and also from the food stalls  in the superb Markthal.
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And in the mesmerising,multiple escalators
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All of that dedication and training pushed me to my own finishing line, the binding on Kaleidoscope, started in December 2012.
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I evidently don’t finish enough quilts, as I had forgotten how to join the two binding ends together seamlessly. This video, from Heirloom Creations, is the simplest explanation I have every found, a boon for those like me who find the upside-down, back to front instructions of others completely confusing.
 Twenty feet of binding to hand stitch down now, the last part of my quilting and piecing triathlon on this quilt.

Sunday 3 September 2017

Sculpture by the sea

One year I hope to visit “Sculpture by the Sea” in Australia. Until then, I make do with seeing sculpture in weathered shapes at British beaches

Cramond causeway, weathered U-boat defences, reminiscent of the cardinal sculptures by Giacomo Manzu.

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Or with less sinister features

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With a stretch of the imagination, beginning to resemble the Venus of Willendorf

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Ogmore beach, wooden groynes weathered in to anthropomorphic shapes

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These shapes are percolating through my mind as I have forgotten to bring any sketching or stitching materials on holiday.