Pages

Monday 20 January 2020

Frost and fragments

The first properly frosty day, a walk with a camera, still pondering on the theme of fragmentation

Frosty walk

Frosty walk

Frosty walk

Frosty walk

Frosty walk

Frosty walk

Frosty walk

Frosty walk

Monday 13 January 2020

Glimpses of light in the gloom of January

I am hanging on to any glimpse of light to get through this gloomy January and was struck by the joyful shadows created by my little artists models.

20200113_090857

20200113_090925

Mental light was created by volunteering to join an Extinction Rebellion samba band, and to decorate a drum.

20200113_152345

Spirits raised by the colours on this test layout for the bookshelf quilt

20200113_151006

Thoughts on fragmentation have turned to leaves and the decay of leaves. Plum showed some little quilts she had made,  trapping fabric under tulle, and this coincided with seeing one of the last journal quilts for 2019, where a participant had trapped poinsettia bracts and leaves under tulle. Going to my large supply of dried leaves, I tried that technique.

20200106_171940

20200106_172615

20200106_173749

My intent was to crumple the squares to make the leaves fragment, but they look so lovely,  don’t know  if I can bring myself to do that!

I forgot to photograph the lovely, stitched gingerbread man, sent to me by Benta, before I packed him with the Xmas decorations, so please see her post where she shows her fantastic creativity with machine embroidery.

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGkGTBrcsrgGmtBVAYNGFRB2apvix-9-V-OD6jddwy_YnlF3RJ_fdY0lcrK7N7G6id5GXrJROxMrpk83E1DRZeyfON6iNWRGKC8DugPkdKhL1kJShpMpEBdVryWmf4fHASv1cfpQbTkBU/s1600/IMG_4532.JPG

Positive actions for January:

  • providing sewing assistance at The Repair Cafe in Oxford, where we repaired 12 items of clothing and the other repairers fixed 37 of the other 62 items that were brought for repair. Look out for the day of The Big Fix in the UK on 15th February, and volunteer or take along something to be fixed.
  • Tickets booked to hear the wonderful “Lost Words’” again, touring the UK this spring
  • Buying an electric cargo bike to share with my husband - we live at the top of a l-o-n-g hill, buses re infrequent at the weekend and traffic is therefore very heavy. Two trips up the hill with laden  panniers have already proved the benefit of this decision.If you haven’t tried an electric bike - they are amazing!

 

Friday 3 January 2020

2020 or is it SOSO?

Blogging has taken a back seat in 2019, might it return to the front seat in 2020? Catch up on Nov - Dec activities

Costume exhibition at the National Theatre, free, on until June 2020, 

20191023_180705

20191023_175918

20191023_175830

Panto making, production photos here

20191121_160333

20191117_120011

Birthday flowers

20191129_112158

20191129_112139

Contemporary drawing at The British Museum, very inspiring, free, finishes on 12 January

20191128_125749

Floods in Oxfordshire

IMG-20191215-WA0017

Last 4 Brexit journals, painted wadding background, decreasing influence

20191216_083336

20191216_083348

20191216_083359

20191216_083411

Repairing the Xmas wreath, from Gina Ferrari, I think 

20191216_083232

Golden yellow winter jasmine, much needed colour

20191219_110643

20191219_110650

Starting work on a bookshelf quilt for a baby due in March, some of which had to be sewn on the Singer 201k

20191229_152622

20191229_152652

20200101_164736

20200101_164709

Will I take part in the Contemporary Quilt Group challenge for 2020, theme is Fragmentation? One metre by 60cm for 31st May? Gathering ideas

20200101_164433

20200101_164447

R1039798

R1039791

https://live.staticflickr.com/7469/27252830321_74aa9e8f15.jpg

20200101_164517

R1039792

20200101_164544

Just for fun, a pen holder, using scraps from the panto costumes, using this tutorial.

20200101_164650

Trying to persuade my husband that even if we are trying to reduce, re-use and recycle, that a new nail brush might be needed, 

20200103_105649

Coming up:

New exhibition at Two Temple Place, “Unbound, Visionary women Collecting Textiles” free, on until 19 April 2020.

Alexander McQueen, “New Roses” how some of those astonishing dresses were made, 27 Old Bond Stree, free, until mid 2020.