Saturday 26th July - tidying up

I was sitting in my usual place on the settee wondering what to draw this morning. 

I was procrastinating, by writing about not drawing, and then just got on with it and drew what I could see;

We have a terrible habit of using the hearthrug as a sort of staging post for things waiting to be dealt with. They can lurk there for days, weeks even. As I drew I started realising how utterly irritating I was finding all the machines and tools lined up in front of me.

BB kindly carried them off and put everything away;

Well, what a difference! We both feel better for having tidied that patch. (Now for the rest of the room...)

Patchwork

I have returned to the hexagon quilt I started back in the Autumn of 2023. 

It's a sort of 'as and when I'm in the mood' project. At the moment I am in the mood, so I'm making patches and adding them, one or two a day. Each patch is completely finished before it is added to the quilt; the padding, backing and quilting all done, so the patches become little padded hexagon 'pennies'.

That way the actual quilt is always 'finished'; no raw edges, pins or tacking threads to be dealt with. I am using it already as a cover for my knitting bag.

Music 

I'm watching/listening to the Vivaldi and Bach prom concert from last night as I tap away at this blog post. Glorious. How do they play so fast for so long? And those swift, mercurial changes from loud to soft? Such skill and musicality.

I enjoyed listening to Susan Calman championing recorders on the BBCSounds 'Artworks' programme the other evening. I learned to play the recorder at school, and spent many a Friday teaching recorders at primary schools. I had no idea they were such a versatile instrument until I listened to the programme. 

Now, if I had listened to this;

Charlotte Barbour-Condini plays Music for a Bird by Linde on the Recorder at BBC Young Musician of the year, 2012, Woodwind final.