Today I am not feeling too well but I am pushing myself as always to carry on and try to forget about the pain. My husband has gone to do my shift at a little antiques centre in Wellington, Somerset where we have a small space for selling things. I have mostly pieces of furniture which have been with us for more than thirty years. I used to have a small antique shop in Newbury, Berkshire and also a unit in the Hungerford Arcade. Many of the pieces are the residue of my time in those places. We need to get rid of them as we are busting at the seams and as you get older you feel the need to slim things down. I hope I might be able to sell some of my work in Wellington, but people don't seem to have much money spare these days.
It is a beautiful sunny day here in Devon but very cold. I just love to see the sun, it's a real treat after the aweful summer we had last year. I had an interesting book for Christmas called 'Create your own free-form quilts' by +Rayna Gillman. What a joy not be told that all the seams have to meet and match up and you can't have this with that. It's a completely break all the rules book. I love it. Thankyou to +Rayna Gillman. I love making patchwork quilts but they do rather take over your life. I have decided to give them a break for now and only get involved in them when teaching. It's like having your cake and eating it.
This piece is made using wool tops, small pieces of fleece cloth, yarn, towelling, felt, embellished by machine with hand and machine embroidery.
This piece was made with wool tops on the embellisher for the base cloth with small pieces of manufactured felt inserts, all hand embroidered.
I would like to take this opportunity to mention Cally of +'Cally creates' for highlighting ME as an illness which is too often maligned and has become the non illness. I don't think so, speaking from personal experience. Thankyou.
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