Today

Set the stones here so I can mow over them

Rediscovered the pathway

Potted up marigolds. I'm now seriously short of pots, need to get more if I buy more plants

And made new samples for the next postcard kits...
Now for shower, fire, bed...

Demolished - Post Office Privatisation?

I've been exchanging hand-made postcards for many years, pretty much at random - I find one on the mat and send one back by return.. I have a boxfull, some of which have been gently modified by the post office in passing.. Never one quite like this, though (note, I have scuffed the return address deliberately in Photoshop..)
I'm sending one back, hope it arrives cleaner than this..

Spiral Moon Postcard

Postcard - Spiral Moon

Friday, Tree Card.. Thursday's has gone for a walk..

Friday's card is called Green Trees, and was made during my Trees class at Vectis Quilters on the Isle of Wight.. Thanks to all for a great couple of days.. Uploading this from the Isle Of Wight ferry, which is steaming backwards out of Cowes utterly loaded to the gills with screaming children and football fans.. Oh, joy, oh, jubilation..
This card has been Posted..

Wednesday Postcard

 Volcanic.  Block print and commercial batik; black printed words on white, distorted to unreadability; prairie points with and without inset lines; hand and machine stitch
For sale; £11 including postage anywhere.  See link on the right for exchanges

And the first of two pieces (seen here in progress) made by cutting and re-assembling a black-on-white and a whitish-on-black screen print pair, with insets of this delicious strawberry red with white spots.
More of these later, when quilted

Tuesday, a bit late to the bits..

Cow Parsley
and the work that inspired it, also called Cow Parsley at present (this is a detail, as it's not bound yet..) Sometimes the titles stick, sometimes not..
£8 including postage worldwide

It's gloriously sunny and freezing cold out.  Tomorrow I drive to the Isle of Wight, to teach and talk.. A sea voyage!  Good for the constitution...

Monday's Card, front and back

I've been experimenting with the Sparkle Punch Quilt pattern, (see the Oh Fransson link on the right), adding my own take on scrappiness and colours - the originals are mostly one-colour/one fabric stars.. Mine have 9 in each colour.. Good for using-up scraps..
Monday's postcard is smaller versions of the blocks (these finish at 2 inches square) and I found this selvedge (I don't usually "do" selvedges) to add to the back, from the last piece I cut for the quilt I'm making..
£11 including postage, or see link on the right for exchanges
Not a great photo of the quilt, sorry, but this is it so far - the columns have been stitched but not the rows.. Looking at it led me to think that an oblong starting block would be interesting.
I'm not sure if this is the middle of a practical quilt or a wall piece.. As it's not my pattern, it's not saleable, of course..
Ah, well, back to the ironing..

To exchange a postcard with me, see the Link on the right of this page..

Day Two - Orange

 In no particular order - Kitemaking is Messy, Carrot Salad for lunch, small delta kite with bat,
octopus and flook kites, eight Tiger Blocks ,  (click for tutorial), and five recycled postcards. Now I'm exhausted and I'm going to sit in front of a nice Orange fire...

Money Makes The World Go Around..

and this postcard could go anywhere.. Could be yours, leave a message and I'll email you for your snail address...

Rubber Postcards

If I had been asked if this was a good idea, I suspect I would have laughed..
Postcards class on Saturday was much enjoyed by all. Cards by Tina, using bicycle tyre, inner tube rubber, oddments of chain, and spoke nipples. Now that's going to do funny things for the hit rate...