Back In the Groove

After reading Fan My Flame this morning I feel ashamed, I've not posted for so long. I'm not sure that anybody reads my ramblings anyway. 

Just to give a bit of a catch up, my operation went very well and it was done 'key hole' leaving 5 very small scars and a large stone in a jar ( which has now been disposed of, yuk!) it had been suggested that I use it in a piece of textile work? just the thought turns my stomach!

Now I'm back and fully functioning time seems to be flying past, and here are just a few of the things that have happened. I've been to a wedding, a trip with Chrissythreads and a few other  members of the ERTF to the V&A to see the Baroque exhibition, while there we also got to see the Hat exhibition at the same time. I wasn't to keen on the Baroque but love the hats and of course the company! I did a great workshop with Nickie  and Sharne, I've got to say it was a really busy workshop, and I was delighted with the piece that I came away with,(see above)

I've also finished my wall hanging for my C&G I cant show a photograph as I'm putting it in the Material Girls Exhibition and I don't want to spoil the surprise! Last week we had the external City and Guilds assessor come to look at our work, she seem to be very pleased with all our work, so that's a big thank you to Chris Bojan. We are going to carry on next year and I'm looking forward to doing the things she has planned!

I've booked a place on the Embroiderers Guild Eastern Regions weekend workshop at Belstead, I'm really looking forward to it, I love weekend workshops, there's nothing quite like going away with like minded people and spending all day stitching or playing with dyes which is what I'll be doing. I'm very into dying at the moment.

I'm looking forward to the  ERTF  Tea and Textiles at Chrissythreads next Friday, I'll post more about that next weekend.

Today I'm spending the day knitting yet another pair of socks, I cant really get into anything serious as there are 2 men upstairs plastering the ceilings, so its easy to put down knitting needles and make yet another cup of tea! Plus there is so much stuff in front of my workroom door I cant get in there!  There is mess everywhere, why are we punishing ourselves like this. The poor cat doesn't know where to go!

So it'll be back to more work next week, looks like the weekend is going to be really warm and sunny, fingers crossed.

Tomorrow

This time tomorrow I should be having my gall bladder operation, after such a long wait I cant believe that its actually going ahead. I wish that it was Friday and it was all over!

I've been looking at holiday photos again and came across this one it was taken in the Lake district in 2007, I love the reflection on the water, I cant remember which lake.

I'll be back home on Friday if all goes well, I've got loads of things planned to do when I'm recuperating. I started knitting a pair of socks yesterday so I can take those into hospital with me, I thought it would be easier than taking in threads and trying to do stitching. I've been knitting socks now for a while whenever things are tough I find I can knit away and loose myself.......

Blickling Gate

This is one of those photographs I've taken in the past, I mentioned in a previous post. One of those that maybe useful 'sometime'. I actually used it for a project in my City and Guilds! I added a few french knots!

Taken by Others

This is what mean I wasn't even there and my OH started taking photos that he thought I might like for projects.

And Another Thing

Another thing, the other day my OH,(I'm not sure if I've mentioned he loves a gadget) decided that we needed to be able to use the TV to use iplayer and see photographs. Off he went to the shop and came back with leads and things I'm not interested in. When it was set up we sat down to watch photographs of our ORLANDO holiday which was a family holiday. As the slide show was flicking through it suddenly became apparent that most of the pictures were of things.
Is this usual, there were 5 of us on this holiday but most of the pictures that I took were taken with the idea that maybe I would use as inspiration for a project. I've even got others doing it, they take pictures of things for me!
I thought that I might post some of these over the next few days.

3rd Time Lucky

I know I said I'd blog more often, but to be honest I really dont think that my life is that interesting! 

All I have been doing lately is my C&G work see my accessory project, bag with change purse and glasses case.

Also I've still got my gall bladder well hopefully for only another week. The operation has been arranged twice already but my liver function hasn't been right. Now I've been referred to another surgeon at a London Hospital I met with him on Monday. He's going to do the operation on the 26th, whats the saying 3rd time lucky!

Now I'm trying to get things sorted as I wont be able to drive for a couple of weeks, so I'll need lots of things to keep me amused while I'm recuperating. Today I've dyed silk for the first time this is for my wall hanging project, really good results. Thats something that I can work on and hopefully finish before I get back to class. I've decided that I love dying fabric and I want to do a lot more of it in the future.

I also managed to finish my piece of work for the ERTF challenge it wasn't what I planned to do but I've had other things on my mind but it was put in the post at lunch time. Hooray !!!

Thats it for now.

From Panels to Tiarars

It's been a long and varied week. Monday I was in hospital having an endoscopy and a cut put in my bile duct so that it can drain, this is a good thing! don't ask. Next Friday I go to see the consultant and hopefully all the blood test will be OK and he will tell me that he's happy to go ahead and remove my gall bladder, I'm hoping that by the end of February it will all be over.

Thursday I had my panel project signed off hooray! See above. Now I'm onto the next project accessories, I'm making a handbag. I'll post more about that as I go along.

Today I went to the V&A with chrissythreads, and had a really great time, I feel really inspired by the Tsars exhibition. I also picked up a couple of books one on handbags and the other on Tiaras, so that's my 3D project sorted, I'm all fired up. I have been flagging  creatively a bit lately, probably due to my health problems I can be excused, today really did give me the boost that I needed so thanks Chris.