remember me?

Happy New Year!

It seems I have not blogged for a long, long time

and it has taken a lovely comment from a long follower on my blog to get me back here.

I am fine and doing well.

But my country:

it seems we are ruled by a team of lazy, lying cheating dimwits.

There I have put that out there.

Plenty has been said in the media if you want to look it up.

The East Coast of Australia has been burning for months losing many times the amount of forest that burnt in the Amazon and millions of our native animals have died 

while our crazy leader holidayed in Hawaii, 

was slow to action and 

continues to obfuscate about Climate Change.

I, like many Australians, am in complete despair.

There seems little we common folk can do and even if we had an election soon I fear the same forces that assisted this party  to be elected would be at it again.

 So I have done what most artists do and turned inward to get myself through.

This improv quilt is inspired by the great Nancy Crowe.

It's progress has been slow while I pondered design decisions but so far I am pleased.

And this beauty has been in the making for some time.

I have been exploring solids, 

quilts made from as few fabrics as possible,

traditional patterns but modern colours

and hand quilting.

I got out the old quilting templates!

I just love doing that kind of quilting.

You can stitch all (or most) of that angst into something.

Funny how when you pick up the quilt again those thoughts return.

So that's me for today. Take care.