What Katie Did

Liberty prints

My Mum collects fabric and so do I. Sometimes we swap a bit, but I mostly come off best! The latest carrier bag was full of scraps of Liberty print fabrics, too thin for Mum to incorporate into her quilts, but mouthwateringly wonderful for me to experiment with.
Lovely colours. I had a think about them for a while and then these emerged

a mis-matched riot of colour
 Don't worry about the wonky stitching - I'm not - I could say that I did it like that on purpose, and I suppose I did
and I have some fabric left. Who knows what I may do next?

Thanks Mum!

And here is something else under construction - more soon

Finished

First there was Geoff's now Owen's
next.....
this fabulous wool was given to me some years ago - it is all hand spun by a retired farmer's wife of my acquaintance, Brenda, from their own sheep. Marvellous.
Lots of white and creamy colours left.  I don't really like white, thinking I might dye some with natural dyes, what? how? when? all questions I have no answer to yet.

And for the observant among you - check out the hair and beard cut I gave to Geoff the other day, compared with the Christmas link picture - vast improvement? He looks less Biblical now! check it out

we did this again and I think you could say that Geoff won, but there wasn't a lot of interest in the winning - more the taking part and getting your breath back after walking to the top of this hill

Lovely

PS I've enabled this 'link within' thing at the foot of each post - what do you think ? annoying? helpful? It has kept me amused for hours re-reading posts from the past - I'd quite forgotten all of that stuff - I'll stick with it for a while - if only to see what the strange bit of software chooses to link me to!

Be Happy

Norfolk

John moved to Norfolk this week to start work for the RSPB and I got to take him. This meant lots of driving, but also lots of huge skies and empty beaches full of no-one, acres of clean fresh tide-washed sand and shells, lots of razor shells mostly, and though I am famous for my exaggerating, there really were millions, so while John got to grips with surveying these on his first day at Titchwell, I got to do some beach art!


building

I found this beach comb
and that helped a lot
the sun shone

and filled me with
At Wells next the Sea I revisited the bookshop and pottery we had been to a couple of years ago.

I am trying to post the mosaic I have just made on Flickr toys, but it is beyond me - go and have a look if you like. THANK YOU JACKIE!!

The book covers were amazing and this knitting book made me laugh

 

he looks like he's ready for anything!

 

and finally, Susie, a poodle with attitude