Textile Joy

Acorn green...

rosebud yellow...

periwinkle blue...

perfect red....

all the colours of the garden and the earth,

sewn into this beautiful patchwork quilt,

hanging on the kitchen wall of the very talented embroiderer who created them.

And all the colours of the sea and the sky in this handbag that she also made - taking my breath away with her marvellous eye for colour and design and skill in her huge, overflowing, creative body of work - a textile joy.

I spent most of today getting ready to go away for a week to the Cotswolds.....clearing out the fridge, storing the apples,  eating up the leftovers, spending money in M&S, choosing DVDS and books in the library, trying to decide what to pack. I've booked a cottage for me and Robin close to several National Trust properties which he'll be very pleased about - means we'll have somewhere to visit every day for both of us to enjoy..... as well as Poundland and Morrisons and Sainsbury's.

So  this is the last blog for a while...back in October.