Garwnant Park

A drive out to the Beacons for a walk and a lunch.

A very Tolkien walk it was too, with vivid green moses 

 on the trees and on the forrest floor.

Yet another One

Large borders, like this, were used in Tudor times on bed linen and house hold items to identify the owner when the court moved from place to place.  Back then few people would have been able to read a label. Very agressive flowere on this one.

Spring is on its Way

 The first of many to come.

Porthcawl

Another cafe, this time for paninis,

with a view of Rest Bay.

Inspite of the sunshine, it was rather chilly

Abergavenny

To visit the market 

and have Gek's favouite dish, cawl.

F147 WWP finished.

The last Morgan I owned , a Plus 4.  

Enjoyed a trip down France's Loire Valley with only one temporary hood up needed,

and 5 weeks driving in Tuscany, San Gimignano in the back ground, no hood up needed.

Somerset Patchwork Copy

 So much clutter for such a small piece which has 60 parts. But a good learning exercise.

The Little Peckers

The Sparrow Gang competitors, the Gold Finch Crew.

Out for a Walk

 Across the viaduct,

for walk in the tunnel of trees, an old railway line that used to go all the way to Hereford.

Loft Done

 

During the recent deep freeze we had a burst water pipe in our loft. During the clear up, took the opportunity to tidy up the space with extra cladding and lay some flooring boards. 

Australia's Birds

 

A new exhibition in the Contempory, a bunch of noisy peckers.

http://www.gekart.net/Contemporary/Marquetry.html

to accees the show.

New Embroidery.

 The Gold Finch, How to do the feathers?  Perhaps I should stick to pure blackwork.

The landscape mounted, ready for a future exhibition.

Snow

 The next day, making for a slippery hill.

Penarth For Lunch

Such a beautiful day.  
 

Getting There

The Three Sisters delivered and installed. 

The Apostles in prep.  Created an in-house kit for the piece.

Completed New Stuff

An applique contribution for a  9 piece Ystrad Quilter's collective effort.  

Applique paterns used to make 9 marquetary  Ozzie birds.  Flowers still on going. Perhaps I could do the angels next 😀.

Cold Snap

Well, a bit more than a snap, but beautiful to wake to.

Lunch at the Manor House

 In freezing temperatures but beneath a clear blue sky, we took off to the Manor to take lunch out for a change.

Lunch won't be long.

Latest Needle Work Completed

Gek's incubator cover created for the local health board to add to the YMQ's collection,

and my blackwork image of FUA, copied from David D's photograph.

Blackwork Chinese Landscape

 The Landscape completed, now to workout how to display it.

Richard

In Halong Bay, Vietnam

Richard is no longer with us. A friend for 50 years with lots of happy times spent together in many places round our planet featured in the 15 posts accessed via the 'Richard' label-link below.  

Of course, in the early days we didn't photograph our daily doings the way we do now. Shame really, not to have captured moments like being driven around Manchester stuffed into the back of Richard's Reliant Three Wheel Van, aka Only Fools and Horses.

RIP my Friend

Time off from Sewing to See the Sea

Is that the Sun or the Moon? 

T'was the sun. The Knap in the distance.

Gek in winter cladding casting a midday shadow, looking forward to a lunch at Mrs Marcus's Cafe.

Kookaburra

 Five down, four to go, in the bird collection.

And so on to Sewing

Cross stitch flowers for Gek.

Using a chinese painting,

Gek created a drawing for counted back stitch for me,

to make a blackwork scroll, the idea being to mount the finished work on a rotating drum.  Hmm, let's see how it goes. 

It is Saturday Again

Prep for char kway teow,

 and away we go. char, char char!!!!

Autumn

 

Colours of the season with a very lush green carpet.

Although the poppies are still popping,

and the peas are still podding.  Very peculiar for mid November, no?

Playing Together

 Winter is a coming.  Plenty of time to get on with the needle work. 

Cross-stich for G

and blackwork with colour for D.

Last Rose of the Year

Brought the bloom in door to keep me company as I start a new E, a country scene drawn by Gek, and M, a Black Swan. 

Butterfly, Scenery and Pelican

 A piece to practice the different infill paterns.  

Scene of nowhere in particular, sketched by G, stitched by D.

The latest attempt. A ways to go yet.