Word For The Year

 Simplify

Came to me in the half-sleep after a dream. 

Tidied tools on my windowsill

After the Solstice I seem to have regained much momentum, which is wonderful. Post-room is tidy, much scrap metal removed and buckets sorted, webpages ongoing (see the previous post for various pages of lovely bags-for-sale

And, now, my sewing-machine friend is ill, his apprentice is attempting to rebuild their workspace, and tomorrow I need to ride to the rescue with drills, saws, many woodscrews, and some much-needed skill...

Oh, the Merriness (Not Quite)

ETA Bags and purses are online here

https://www.helenhowestextiles.co.uk/bags/index.html

More to come, but I have made a Really Good Start!

Christmas Market, at the Fisher Theatre in Bungay, on Sunday 7th. A really early start, I expect it will be chilly, but I do have a nice table-full of Made Things to delight your heart. Been making these Bazaar Bags, plus purses, books, brooches, all sorts of little frivolities...
10 till 3, do come...

 ETA, I have had worse days trading, but not many. What a waste of time

Going to sulk tomorrow, then set up a photobooth and put all this loveliness online.. Links when done...

Serendipitous

 My apple tree is bowed down with fruit - jam beckons... (and the blackberries are huge and plentiful too)

So, in the Big C  shop today, I found this lovely new (old) toy

Peels

Slices

And cores...

Been wanting one for ages..

£2.50!

Very Tall Hollyhocks

Cat for scale...
Almost up to the green-room window...

Too hot...

 

Roadkill Time

 These have been accumulating

Just got to feel sorry for a lost frog sock...

Dancing With The Wall...

...with Irene Roderick

Such fun...

 

Garden comes alive, and Tigers are Gothy

First sparks of my "lasagne" planted pot...

Tiny irises. I managed to put enough gravel on the pots to keep out the mice this year

Gothy Tiger 4'6" square

New Goth Baby Quilt - this is Gothy Tiger

Detail

Free to a good home - conditions - you must ask for yourself or your child, not for "a friend" or "they might like", and no, Linus isn't going to want this...

Plain fabrics are all Oakshott shot cottons, so this is washable. Cotton wadding

Hellebores

and primroses...

 

Despite the Sunshine...

 ...I'm tired and I hurt. This Getting Old is not for the faint-hearted...
I did manage a walk on the beach yesterday, at Kessingland.  Nice dogs, lots of pebbles, driftwood, large and small boats

Entertaining wall art (actually a very nicely-decorated village, with many stained-glass doors and the like) - the house this was on had three of these and lots of boaty motifs all round

I assume this will have plants later - like the idea

Lovely crusty paintwork...

And, is it a bird?

Actually, no, seaweed...

Word (Phrase) For The Year

Delayed by brain-fog and tiredness. I do not recommend this year's flu, try another kind for best results

Anyway, this year I found a phrase -

"What Have We Here"

Thinking on...

Just remaking the Tutor Boxes page, removing the old MQGB site, sorting my sewing room and doing a deal of lying down...

All the old samples heading off to new homes, thanks to all who requested...
Links here for the new pages

https://www.modernartquilters.co.uk/patterns/tutorboxes.html 

A Not Very Exciting Holiday Season

 Flu. Been really slow and low and unable to eat anything much. It's been cold and foggy and I feel much the same

Highlight of the week - sorting my untidy bobbin boxes and building a couple of new shelves next to my sewing machine, a much-needed addition to the room...

Feeding cats, of course

Rosie on the table

And Jim underneath...

And roadkill - note the delightful colour-co-ordination between this athletic sock and the Post Office wall

And someone had too many sweeties...