Sunset in Wales

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.

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!

Why have I been so inactive?

....because I've been campaigning for

 

March on 20th October, from 12 noon, Park Lane to Parliament Square. 

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

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