It's been a busy few weeks. The mayhem and fluid nature of schedules in the summer holidays make for a 'make it up as you go along' approach to life, which I can only sustain for so long and then I start looking forward to the stability that school timetables bring.
So this month we had family visiting, two music festivals (my daughter not me but still impacted on my plans), a wedding, a two day art/craft festival, decorating two teenager bedrooms and last week I had two lovely ladies come and stitch for three days-ish. The ish is because I included visits local sites, Blenheim Palace, and Oxford and I threw in some local villages and a 'Midsommer Murder' location for good measure.
They were from Melbourne and had built a visit to Appletree into their busy European visit, to partake of some patchworking. We did rotary cutting and pinning and stitching, mixing fabrics and looking at photography as a useful notebook that can become a personal visual resource and lots more. Great fun and hugely rewarding.
And before you ask I am not set up for B&B but rather fortunately, the ancient thatched cottaged over the lane is so it all worked out rather well.
So if you fancy a couple of days of creative stitching or papercutting let me know.
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| Piles of fabrics ready to be raided |
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| Happily cutting and stitching and chatting |
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| Dustin checking quality of ironing! |
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Experimental panel using some very vintage
fabrics with velvets |
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| Beautiful Japanese cottons sliced and ready for assembly |
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Lovely panel that will be made into a cushion cover,
linens and cottons |
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| Lucy making the most of a drop of sunshine |
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