Dreaming Spirals

Art, to me, is the ability to see and to communicate that sight to others, whether in painting, stitch, sculpture, music, writing, photography… to look around and isolate the beautiful, the idiosyncratic, the crazy, the droll, the quirky….

things that people might otherwise miss and be the poorer for it

Views of rooftops, colours of a flower, a butterfly, weeds growing through concrete, birdsong, qualities of light, colour….. lichen growing on a rock ….

all of that and more, lots more.

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Just alighting.

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And this butterfly was sufficiently enticed by the yummy nectar that this plant obviously has, to stay still enough for me to photograph it. It’s either a red admiral or a painted lady. I can never remember the difference.

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Here it is again.

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This time of year it is swarming with hoverflies (at least I think these are hoverflies and not wasps - if I’m stung, I’ll think again! but I’ve read somewhere like hoverfly larvae eat aphids so I want as many as will stay!).

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This plant in my garden is a sort of flowering upright ivy (at least I think it is). Now, I hate most ivies because of their tendency to take over everything as soon as you go inside, but this one was redeemed for two reasons. The flowers. And the fact that wildlife seems to like it.

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And here it is finished, bound with an orange sheer ribbon. Now I’ve got to quilt the bigger one which is about 20 inches square. I’m not sure whether to add a border at the moment or whether to use more sheer fabric to make a border on top of the existing top. It is sitting on my noticeboard/design wall at the moment (I really must make a proper design wall sometime but it will have to be a portable one because there’s no spare wall space in my studio.)

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Here it is partially quilted. I have quilted it with Madeira FS2 metallic thread in red, gold and black.

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