Stitching into a monoprint.

Stitching a little bit of one of those monoprints. For fun, mark making, slow stitching. We have had Haggis, the -dog-who-comes-for-holidays, staying so been doing more walking than usual especially around the enormous field. The field is golden and the barley harvested.  This is a walking stitch around the enormous field. That is my next theme for an exhibition at Quenington next June/July.

Playing with paint and monoprints.

 A wet Sunday afternoon so I got out my acrylic paints, rollers and geli plate.

 Just playing around with ideas of the enormous field with crops at different times of the year.

 These are on paper,

 then on fabric.

 One to stitch into. A pick up and put down piece for slow stitching.

Also working on a Rose Bay willow herb in stitch. Another diary story, third in the series.

Winter quilt

 You may remember this winter quilt of bare branches and tiny patches with running stitches, well I am working to finish it now for the exhibition.

 There is now a swan in the top left

and a heron in the bottom right corner. In my mind I have the Gerald Manley Hopkins words ringing,
'o let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.'
They are written on the wall at Slimbridge Wetland Centre and I associate Winter with trips bird watching to see the Bewick swans and other wild birds that fly in.
I am also trying to do a little mark making each day- working on a little book.