Carving

Some pictures of the completed wood carvings of the girl, tree and bird

Strange Fruits

A female monkey puzzle tree preparing to fruit in the autumn. The tree needs to be 40 years old before this happens and you can't tell if its a female or male tree until then.

Check out this brilliant piece of graffiti knitting

Blossom, tulips and the promise of peonies

Woodcarving

I have been going to woodcarving classes and discovered I am a whittler! Here's a bad photo of what I have been making recently. If the girl pesters the bird for long enough, he flies down into her arms

Linda Miller

The brilliant textile artist Linda Miller now has a blog, so you can see what she's working on at the moment and get a bit of a peek at her book due out later this year. She has lots of examples of her beautiful work on her website

Was it all a dream?

In Praise of Slow Quilting

My quilt is finished after two years, it has been a deliberately slow and enjoyable process from start to finish. After years of quilting I always come back to the slowest method which I think gives the finished quilt real depth. I have made machine sewn quilts, speedily cut with a rotary blade and stitched together in isolation at the sewing machine, and although the results have been good they have none of the feel or memories of a hand sewn piece. I like to remember the making, the history of the different fabrics and the friends who donated some of them, all the seperate processes it has involved, the time that has passed and the things that have happened as the quilt has formed.