Adventures in crafts continue

First type your design onto calico

Then stretch it in one of these things

Start embroidering with a single thread of embroidery silk.

I was curious about whether this was even possible. Turns out to be possible! Another one of a kind product for my table at a craft market next month in Hastings, Uk.

Natasha

This is Natasha.

She lives in our bathroom, spins her webs, and bothers no one. She’s fine. It’s her prospective mates climbing over my neck in the night that I am not too keen on. They have a terrible sense of direction! This portrait of Natasha will be going into one of my notebooks. I’ve made a few with birds on the fly pages. Now it’s time for something a little different to go inside.

These books, along with more of my typed artworks will be on my table at a local craft market next month.

Roberta Flack

Almost finished portrait of Roberta Flack. The original version of this song is the best.

New cloud studies

For a new journal I’m binding this week. Good to get back to typing clouds again!

Portrait of a typewriter

Good Companion 5 typed on itself

Raven for your caw

A day out on the Thames

My surprise find of fossil sea-urchin. St Paul’s Cathedral and the Millennium bridge in the background

Thames swans ( they all belong to the King, technically, as an old rule says he’s the only one allowed to eat them. ) Pigeons also and a few black headed gulls. Blackfriars bridge in the background. What you can see is actually the train station platform windows

Looking back from those windows, you can see the banks of the Thames along Southbank, and the little bit of beach where I found the fossil. Further along is the Tate Modern Gallery

And a wider view from the station window at Blackfriars. Sitting on the bench waiting for my train home, I could hear the waves of the Thames crashing beneath me as the tide came in.

I loved her so much

Courting on the wing

Once you’ve read something, you can’t unread it.