Friday 29th August - 2By2 August

Ang used a border from a cushion panel for her patches. Genius!

You can see how she created the two patches from the strip along the bottom, leaving the panel.

She's kept the rainbow 🌈, which is a nice reference to her blog. I've got the ark; the A could stand for A in 'a letter from home'. Another neat reference. 

Both squares have been beautifully embellished with embroidery stitches in the same colours, adding texture and interest.  A brilliant start to the collaboration.

She had also sent me an amazing origami star, made from a colourful magazine page.

Here are my two patches; they are seascapes. I kept the first patch,  on the left, and sent the one on the right to Ang.

The backing is linen from a venerable tea towel; I wanted a fairly open weave fabric as sewing is so much easier. The inspiration came from Hannah Dunnett's book 'More Than Words', which has lovely swirly sea pictures. You might remember this doodle I tried... but I reckoned I'd struggle to sew something this detailed, so I settled for something simpler. 

I sewed freehand, using backstitches and running stitches.

You  couldn't get more of a contrast between our patches!

Music

'At the Dance' from the Summer Days Suite for orchestra composed by Eric Coates.The Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

I had Radio 3xtra playing while I was getting dressed. I've never listened to it before, it's advertised as 'mindful music' and I tend to switch myself off mentally or, if it's a television or radio programme, switch the contraption off physically! If it's a book, I'll walk on by...

However, I thought I'd see what they were up to, and I caught the last few minutes of a movement from Eric Coates's Summer Days Suite. I've no idea which movement was playing, but here's one of them...

It seemed appropriate as there are only a couple more days left in August.