I have planned three pieces of work to plop into those frames (I will get the goddesses framed).  This was the starting point for the first piece.

Nice I was happy with it.  Then over the past few evenings I have taken it up to the house and done an hour or so of hand stitching [...]

Happiness is …
Being back in the studio,
Writing a textile blog
And the lovely comments that you have taken time to leave me.
I have decided to mostly respond to comments by visiting your blogs
If that’s OK with you?

So definitely a day for hunkering down in the studio.
Finish previous piece …….  check
Paint papers ………………..  check
Paint Bondaweb ……………  check
Plan next piece …………….  check

This morning in the studio I picked up a fabric background that I had made some months ago - it was rather lovely - and as I looked at it, I realized that I had no idea how I had created it.
Sometimes when you have been away from art-work for a while - you have [...]

Guess what? ….. it rained today! Got completely washed out gardening this morning - and was not very settled in the studio this afternoon.
However I have made a start on a new piece - and got a working title for it - currently “Beyond the Stars”
It is based on a section of Sacred Mysteries - [...]