Cover for the Autumn book.

 This was a what if.... What if I take lots of scraps of autumnal scraps of fabric and stitched them together like leaf litter. Years ago I made some pieces like this with Indian scraps of sari cloth and stitched them kantha style.

I was pleased with how it turned out. Loving working with these colours and all the leaves and berries as inspiration.

Sparrow finished!

Autumn sparrow 7.5cm square. Finished yesterday!

Sparrow in progress continued and Westonbirt Aboretum.

 Sparrow 2  ( Thurs)

 Sparrow 3 (Fri)

 And between sparrow stitches a walk at Westonbirt. Beautiful colours

 with poetry (unnamed) on banners around some of the trees.

A comma butterfly basking in the sunshine near the katsura tree that smells of burnt sugar this time of year. A day early for the exhibition in the Oak Hall, I will have to go back.

Sparrow in progress.

Loved this sparrow and had to start stitching it right away. 3ins square, background painted with silk dyes. Embroidery cotton, single thread.

Autumn book.

 Overheard Monday morning. ' Someone seems to have switched on Autumn.' It is colder, darker in the morning and the trees are changing colour. So I have started a new Autumn book. ( Although I still have the summer one to finish) I do like sparrows they are constant visitors at the bird cafe and on holiday I took pictures of a huge flock in a hedgerow by the sea.

 Yesterday on a walk; these crab apples underfoot,

 these collected to draw.

This is a button curtain I made in 2003 that I have had to say goodbye to. It was 2 pieces of silk chiffon machined together in a grid and I popped white buttons in every other square. I made it for an exhibition called Darn, hence the idea of warp and weft and some darning embroidery. I made tassels of buttons using soluble fabric for spots. It has hung in our window since the exhibition and gone yellow and got holes in. So now it has to go but I will save the buttons and the tassels.

Salcombe holiday 2

 The garden at Overbecks (N.T.) High up on the cliff is a tropical garden full of palm trees and things we couldn't possibly grow here.

 The rock formations were very interesting. I hope to use some of these in future work.

 Interesting colours and layers.

The strata here was vertical.

Here different textures within the green/grey. Always lots of inspiration for new work.

Salcombe Holiday.

 Back from our holiday in glorious Devon. Some wonderful beach walks and sunshine.

 Except when we went to Bigbury-on-sea to gaze at Burgh Island. Tide in and the sea tractor crossing.

 Tide going out and the causeway revealed. The surfers were enjoying the weather anyway.

 Back to blue sea and skies on the coastal path- walking towards Hope.

 Hope Cove.

 From the ferry to South Sands.

Salcombe from the ferry.