Its that time of the year, people start something new, commit, make promise to themselves. I've done it, although not for many years and this is not what I am doing this year.
That said I've joined a group thats all about walking 1000 miles in 2018 - check it out on FB. And I've devised a way of keeping track of my miles via my Fitbit. Its a bit galling when you find out that what you think of as your long morning walk with the dog is only 1.7 miles so I'm tracking my weekly goal of 20 miles and I'm counting all the walking I do for the rest of my day. So far so good. As I walk I'm listening to Hilary Rodham Clinton reading her book What Happened via the Audible app. I enjoy this sort of book as a listener much more than as a page reader. See more at www.audible.co.uk
Here's my page reading at the moment ...
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| Short stories -very readable with a focus on Vietnamese family life |
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| Just started this ... so far its all about the death of Chatterton & Dylan Thomas .. not as boring as i though it might be |
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| Edgy, unusal and brave poems in here by a wonderful poet |
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What's not to like ... I can read about yoga and practice my french in one place |
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A book to pick up and peruse ... early days for me reading this ... lots to inspire and help with so far
and now I'm saying this very very quietly but I've also joined a project called 10 minutes drawing ... its all the fault of the wonderful women who run the Design for Stitch course I'm on this year and two of the equally wonderful students I'm learning with.
Enough said, here's my first two efforts, already on Instagram where we are all sharing our efforts at what I call mark making. Thus avoiding, whenever possible, the dreaded D word!!!
 
This morning's mark making was done with an iPencil ... so the project is a bonus as its encouraging me to learn how to use this and to mark make in Adobe Sketch. There may be a quilty thing from all this in a few years but maybe not.
Finally, I've finished another almost lacey scarf in sock weight yarn and have started to add quilting to what I call my 'brick' quilt. I love the effect of quilting with a double needle. Shame that I managed to break two of these just doing a few rows of stitching ... all down to some less than easy fabric and the rusty effect -you live and you learn especially that the Bernina sewing 'computer' is a tad sensitive to stuff like that.
Photos below and thank you for reading.
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