You can never have enough...

[Oh_hunnihunni]

I came across some fabulous stitched leaves in my browsing yesterday. I have done enough on the experimental skirt and am thinking about the jacket project, so looking for inspiration. I finally settled for a quick brooch that I am rather pleased with, a little memory piece. My very dear friend Ali was a master weaver here in Auckland with an art practice that ran over forty years. I had some of her fine silk and merino fabric scraps, part of a commissioned hanging she did for the Birkenhead Library. So I have made a big round button from them, over stitched with some hand spun silk yarn another old friend made years ago for me in the shape of the Viking rune for love. Watching Vikings Valhalla as I stitched bled into the piece quite literally, Ali would have loved the drama of that series as well as the costuming.

But it is finished now, so this morning I will vac up the threads on the floor, do the kitchen and bathroom floors, and then take the jacket off the hanger and make a start.

And at some stage today make pasta sauce for the freezer with the tomatoes that ripened on the bench overnight. It is glut time with my beefsteaks.

Life is good...