I really want to

I really want to draw.

I want to keep a journal.

I want to draw and do little paintings on my next holiday.

With this in mind I have done some classes and I know I have a long way to go.

I know, lots of practise and more classes.

But in the meantime I want to know what I should be using?

Which pens? That don't leak on planes and trains.

Which notebooks? That open flat?

I have made a couple you can see back here

but where to now?

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Sometimes

Sometimes it's nice to let world events

(and local elections)

just wash over you while you sit and stitch.

 

 

Recently I asked for help choosing thread for this quilting.

While making the little wrap (in my last post)

I recalled how much I love this old linen thread.

 

I

The happy medium: it is thicker than quilting thread but thinner than the Spagetti thread.

 

I'm happy.

 

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Gadgets

Every time I start to plan my holidays

I start to worry about all those chargers and cords and connectors.

Especially as these days you tend to carry them in your hand luggage.

So I have made a little pouch-wrap kind of thingy.

 

 

And the I get to take along something I made,

and in my favourite old japaneses fabrics.

 

 

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Pieced

My latest quilt is all in one piece

and basted ready to quilt.

But hard to photograph.

To start with I took it outside so you could see how these leaves have turned.

Not a good shot of the quilt though.

 So then I tried inside.

Do you like the silhouette?

Still can't see the pattern though.

 Hmm. A bit better. A bit wrinkled.

It's a simple cross design in 2 fabrics. Minimalist.

The next big decision: which thread?

A sashiko look or just blue on blue texture?

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Cutting and piecing

 

 

 

 

Repetition.

A good start.

 

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Repetition

Repetition

Contemplation

I have been unpicking kimonos.

Cotton ones.

Just these two. I have a project in mind.

Slow and steady work.

En plein air

I have been wanting to post a picture of this recent finish for about a week

but needed another pair of hands.

Yesterday when I tried the Mountain Climber was digging in the garden.

So I took the quilt to him.....

"Yes, yes, just hold this for a minute?"

 

See the green leaves in the background?

With only 2 days left before Winter those leaves just hang in there and are still green.

They are the last to leave and the first to arrive.

Like me at a party.

 

Oh yes and the back.

Those bits down the side date from a quilt about 20 years ago.

 

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