... is a phrase I came across in Pencil Dancing (see https://www.amazon.com/Pencil-Dancing-Ways-Creative-Spirit/dp/158297005X). My copy was 50p second hand and is useful to dip into for a few minutes with my early morning tea, just a glance, a few rows of knitting and some birdwatching. Sparrows are still feeding young in a nest in the gaps between the stones in the front house wall and I'm told a Hoopoe visits occasionally.
The phrase 'practice without a purpose' is a good label for what I've been doing for the the past couple of days with three lengths of white silk and some left over scraps of coloured silk.
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| rusty nails from a falling apart pallet - I love the sort of regularity |
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| odds of silk wrapped in an old chain and drill bit |
Most of marks were similar!!
Doing this has given me some ideas for the 'brick quilt' that's slowly happening. Watch this space.
Meanwhile ... as the pics below show my line a day project continues and also a hand embroidered and charcoal marked piece I started at the Textile Study Group's summer school two weeks ago. For more detail of this inspiring group see https://textilestudygroup.co.uk
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one little basket of beautiful thread |
The heatwave here in France continues. A good time to have some slow days! A good time for listening to Test Match Special reporting the England v South Africa at Old Trafford.
I may be back here more regularly than usual ....
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| adding stitches to the marks, |
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a line a day. noting more |
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summer school sampler now folded and stitched into a sketchbook |
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