As I walked into work today in the brilliant, blazing sunshine that we are (temporarily) enjoying here, I was musing on what to blog about as there has been a bit of a gap recently. The reason for the gap is that I am employed on some good old-fashioned patchwork and quilting and it takes considerably longer than machine quilting – and the results are less showy. But there is something very therapeutic indeed about doing it. So at the moment I am working on another death quilt to counterpoint the previous heavily embellished one that I wrote about in a previous post. But these things take time.
The interesting thing for me is just how much this Laura Ashley project has slowed me down – like slow-cooking or the slow-city movement. All that handsewing gives you time to think.
So, my thoughts, as I was walking in (thinking at…
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Nick Garrett 