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Highly recommend a trip to see @shahed.saleem work at the V&A Storehouse. Mine and Pete's photos don't do it justice - you need to see the textiles in person for their richness and vibrancy. The hangings are a winning mix of commemoration/celebration and protest. Particularly good to see Altab Ali remembered. I was 14 when he was murdered in our local neighborhood and I remember those hate filled times in Stepney and Whitechapel far too well.

Highly recommend a trip to see @shahed.saleem work at the V&A Storehouse. Mine and Pete's photos don't do it justice - you need to see the textiles in person for their richness and vibrancy. The hangings are a winning mix of commemoration/celebration and protest. Particularly good to see Altab Ali remembered. I was 14 when he was murdered in our local neighborhood and I remember those hate filled times in Stepney and Whitechapel far too well.

Highly recommend a trip to see @shahed.saleem work at the V&A Storehouse. Mine and Pete's photos don't do it justice - you need to see the textiles in person for their richness and vibrancy. The hangings are a winning mix of commemoration/celebration and protest. Particularly good to see Altab Ali remembered. I was 14 when he was murdered in our local neighborhood and I remember those hate filled times in Stepney and Whitechapel far too well.

Highly recommend a trip to see @shahed.saleem work at the V&A Storehouse. Mine and Pete's photos don't do it justice - you need to see the textiles in person for their richness and vibrancy. The hangings are a winning mix of commemoration/celebration and protest. Particularly good to see Altab Ali remembered. I was 14 when he was murdered in our local neighborhood and I remember those hate filled times in Stepney and Whitechapel far too well.

Highly recommend a trip to see @shahed.saleem work at the V&A Storehouse. Mine and Pete's photos don't do it justice - you need to see the textiles in person for their richness and vibrancy. The hangings are a winning mix of commemoration/celebration and protest. Particularly good to see Altab Ali remembered. I was 14 when he was murdered in our local neighborhood and I remember those hate filled times in Stepney and Whitechapel far too well.

Highly recommend a trip to see @shahed.saleem work at the V&A Storehouse. Mine and Pete's photos don't do it justice - you need to see the textiles in person for their richness and vibrancy. The hangings are a winning mix of commemoration/celebration and protest. Particularly good to see Altab Ali remembered. I was 14 when he was murdered in our local neighborhood and I remember those hate filled times in Stepney and Whitechapel far too well.

Our wisteria - planted at least twenty five years ago by the previous residents of our house Peter and Derek - reflected in the window of our @ubuild pod. The pod is now over seven years old and still in daily use.

Our wisteria - planted at least twenty five years ago by the previous residents of our house Peter and Derek - reflected in the window of our @ubuild pod. The pod is now over seven years old and still in daily use.

Our wisteria - planted at least twenty five years ago by the previous residents of our house Peter and Derek - reflected in the window of our @ubuild pod. The pod is now over seven years old and still in daily use.

This quilt - inspired by the work of the landscape designer (and much else) Roberto Burle Marx existed in my head for years before it was realised. I can't remember how I came across the catalogue of the exhibition held about him at the Jewish Museum, New York but I'm glad I did as he was such a fascinating creative man. The quilt is machine appliqued in organic cotton poplin with a bamboo wadding. It's about 240 cms X 150cms. All the actual quilting is hand sewn (there were a large number of TV box sets watched) with Aurifil thread. For those interested in learning more about Burle Marx I suggest following @institutoburlemarx

This quilt - inspired by the work of the landscape designer (and much else) Roberto Burle Marx existed in my head for years before it was realised. I can't remember how I came across the catalogue of the exhibition held about him at the Jewish Museum, New York but I'm glad I did as he was such a fascinating creative man. The quilt is machine appliqued in organic cotton poplin with a bamboo wadding. It's about 240 cms X 150cms. All the actual quilting is hand sewn (there were a large number of TV box sets watched) with Aurifil thread. For those interested in learning more about Burle Marx I suggest following @institutoburlemarx

This quilt - inspired by the work of the landscape designer (and much else) Roberto Burle Marx existed in my head for years before it was realised. I can't remember how I came across the catalogue of the exhibition held about him at the Jewish Museum, New York but I'm glad I did as he was such a fascinating creative man. The quilt is machine appliqued in organic cotton poplin with a bamboo wadding. It's about 240 cms X 150cms. All the actual quilting is hand sewn (there were a large number of TV box sets watched) with Aurifil thread. For those interested in learning more about Burle Marx I suggest following @institutoburlemarx

This quilt - inspired by the work of the landscape designer (and much else) Roberto Burle Marx existed in my head for years before it was realised. I can't remember how I came across the catalogue of the exhibition held about him at the Jewish Museum, New York but I'm glad I did as he was such a fascinating creative man. The quilt is machine appliqued in organic cotton poplin with a bamboo wadding. It's about 240 cms X 150cms. All the actual quilting is hand sewn (there were a large number of TV box sets watched) with Aurifil thread. For those interested in learning more about Burle Marx I suggest following @institutoburlemarx

I don't usually post knitting projects but this one was so enjoyable that I thought it was worth bringing to the attention of other knitters. The pattern is the Johnston by @museumknits which I bought on impulse @selvedgemagazine winter fair. It's one of those knits that is complicated enough to be interesting, but easy enough to watch subtitled TV while knitting. As an added bonus some of the proceeds from the pattern go to the excellent @museumartcraft. The yarn is by Isager and I got mine from @oxfordyarnstore.

I don't usually post knitting projects but this one was so enjoyable that I thought it was worth bringing to the attention of other knitters. The pattern is the Johnston by @museumknits which I bought on impulse @selvedgemagazine winter fair. It's one of those knits that is complicated enough to be interesting, but easy enough to watch subtitled TV while knitting. As an added bonus some of the proceeds from the pattern go to the excellent @museumartcraft. The yarn is by Isager and I got mine from @oxfordyarnstore.

I don't usually post knitting projects but this one was so enjoyable that I thought it was worth bringing to the attention of other knitters. The pattern is the Johnston by @museumknits which I bought on impulse @selvedgemagazine winter fair. It's one of those knits that is complicated enough to be interesting, but easy enough to watch subtitled TV while knitting. As an added bonus some of the proceeds from the pattern go to the excellent @museumartcraft. The yarn is by Isager and I got mine from @oxfordyarnstore.

Behind this unprepossessing front door in south London are the most amazing interiors. I went on a tour of @575wandsworthroadnt yesterday. It's very small for a National Trust property but it packs a punch above its weight. It was home for Kenyan poet and civil servant Khadambi Asalache for 20 odd years starting in the 1980s. During that time this truly creative man covered the walls and ceilings with his painstakingly cut fretwork and filled it with an eclectic range of belongings including souvenirs of his travels. In accordance with his wishes no photos are allowed. The house is now shutting up for the winter, but tours will begin again in the spring. Getting a slot is quite hard - there can only be six people on a tour and no more than 2000 visitors in any year. But well worth persevering.

Behind this unprepossessing front door in south London are the most amazing interiors. I went on a tour of @575wandsworthroadnt yesterday. It's very small for a National Trust property but it packs a punch above its weight. It was home for Kenyan poet and civil servant Khadambi Asalache for 20 odd years starting in the 1980s. During that time this truly creative man covered the walls and ceilings with his painstakingly cut fretwork and filled it with an eclectic range of belongings including souvenirs of his travels. In accordance with his wishes no photos are allowed. The house is now shutting up for the winter, but tours will begin again in the spring. Getting a slot is quite hard - there can only be six people on a tour and no more than 2000 visitors in any year. But well worth persevering.

Lovely evening in Camden @londonirishcentre celebrating the book Photo Album of the Irish: English Edition, a project masterminded by @photomuseumirl and @trishlambe. The call went out some months ago for families of the Irish diaspora to submit their photos and stories. The result is genuinely moving for those of us whose families are featured. There are some real commonalities among the families (far too many men dying early,for example) but some delightful differences too. Those great chroniclers of the Irish family - John McGahern, Brian Friel, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright etc. would find plenty of material, and much that is familiar, here.

Lovely evening in Camden @londonirishcentre celebrating the book Photo Album of the Irish: English Edition, a project masterminded by @photomuseumirl and @trishlambe. The call went out some months ago for families of the Irish diaspora to submit their photos and stories. The result is genuinely moving for those of us whose families are featured. There are some real commonalities among the families (far too many men dying early,for example) but some delightful differences too. Those great chroniclers of the Irish family - John McGahern, Brian Friel, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright etc. would find plenty of material, and much that is familiar, here.

Lovely evening in Camden @londonirishcentre celebrating the book Photo Album of the Irish: English Edition, a project masterminded by @photomuseumirl and @trishlambe. The call went out some months ago for families of the Irish diaspora to submit their photos and stories. The result is genuinely moving for those of us whose families are featured. There are some real commonalities among the families (far too many men dying early,for example) but some delightful differences too. Those great chroniclers of the Irish family - John McGahern, Brian Friel, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright etc. would find plenty of material, and much that is familiar, here.

Lovely evening in Camden @londonirishcentre celebrating the book Photo Album of the Irish: English Edition, a project masterminded by @photomuseumirl and @trishlambe. The call went out some months ago for families of the Irish diaspora to submit their photos and stories. The result is genuinely moving for those of us whose families are featured. There are some real commonalities among the families (far too many men dying early,for example) but some delightful differences too. Those great chroniclers of the Irish family - John McGahern, Brian Friel, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright etc. would find plenty of material, and much that is familiar, here.

Popped to Regent's Park to visit Fibredog who thanks to @assembleofficial is delighting park visitors until November 2nd. Not only is he fun, he also demonstrates some impressive craft skills and - as an added bonus - he smells wonderful. Hoping to revisit on a rainy day when I hope that the olfactory experience will be turned up to ten. I do hope lots of kiddies are visiting and weaving magic stories about firedog - he has something of a children's book illustration about him.

Popped to Regent's Park to visit Fibredog who thanks to @assembleofficial is delighting park visitors until November 2nd. Not only is he fun, he also demonstrates some impressive craft skills and - as an added bonus - he smells wonderful. Hoping to revisit on a rainy day when I hope that the olfactory experience will be turned up to ten. I do hope lots of kiddies are visiting and weaving magic stories about firedog - he has something of a children's book illustration about him.

Popped to Regent's Park to visit Fibredog who thanks to @assembleofficial is delighting park visitors until November 2nd. Not only is he fun, he also demonstrates some impressive craft skills and - as an added bonus - he smells wonderful. Hoping to revisit on a rainy day when I hope that the olfactory experience will be turned up to ten. I do hope lots of kiddies are visiting and weaving magic stories about firedog - he has something of a children's book illustration about him.

Popped to Regent's Park to visit Fibredog who thanks to @assembleofficial is delighting park visitors until November 2nd. Not only is he fun, he also demonstrates some impressive craft skills and - as an added bonus - he smells wonderful. Hoping to revisit on a rainy day when I hope that the olfactory experience will be turned up to ten. I do hope lots of kiddies are visiting and weaving magic stories about firedog - he has something of a children's book illustration about him.

Popped to Regent's Park to visit Fibredog who thanks to @assembleofficial is delighting park visitors until November 2nd. Not only is he fun, he also demonstrates some impressive craft skills and - as an added bonus - he smells wonderful. Hoping to revisit on a rainy day when I hope that the olfactory experience will be turned up to ten. I do hope lots of kiddies are visiting and weaving magic stories about firedog - he has something of a children's book illustration about him.

Popped to Regent's Park to visit Fibredog who thanks to @assembleofficial is delighting park visitors until November 2nd. Not only is he fun, he also demonstrates some impressive craft skills and - as an added bonus - he smells wonderful. Hoping to revisit on a rainy day when I hope that the olfactory experience will be turned up to ten. I do hope lots of kiddies are visiting and weaving magic stories about firedog - he has something of a children's book illustration about him.

Popped to Regent's Park to visit Fibredog who thanks to @assembleofficial is delighting park visitors until November 2nd. Not only is he fun, he also demonstrates some impressive craft skills and - as an added bonus - he smells wonderful. Hoping to revisit on a rainy day when I hope that the olfactory experience will be turned up to ten. I do hope lots of kiddies are visiting and weaving magic stories about firedog - he has something of a children's book illustration about him.

A bit of stash busting - red and yellow Essex linen and waddingleft over from a much larger project. The print square is a piece of Liberty's Karel Martens collection. This cot sized quilt is inspired by the dolls' house designed by the architects MJ Long and Colin St John Wilson in 1982. A version of it was displayed in an excellent exhibition celebrating MJ Long @aaschool in 2023.

A bit of stash busting - red and yellow Essex linen and waddingleft over from a much larger project. The print square is a piece of Liberty's Karel Martens collection. This cot sized quilt is inspired by the dolls' house designed by the architects MJ Long and Colin St John Wilson in 1982. A version of it was displayed in an excellent exhibition celebrating MJ Long @aaschool in 2023.

I'm late putting this up but just over a week ago our eldest collected his PhD from @uniofwarwick the same institution where his dad studiedover thirty years ago. I didn't study at Warwick but spent a lot of time there including at extra mural classes in the mid 1980s while working in Coventry, and later researching in the @mrcwarwick, so it feels like a real family institution to us. Finn actually finished his PhD in computer science last December and is now enjoying working in a tech company which uses his skills in a way that he is morally comfortable with. Thanks to the university and host Piers Gibbon, for such a lovely ceremony.Some charmingly nerdy young people, normally naturally uncomfortable in the limelight, were able to delight their families and friends by walking across the stage without too much stress and accompanied by thundering applause. Definitely a day to remember.

I'm late putting this up but just over a week ago our eldest collected his PhD from @uniofwarwick the same institution where his dad studiedover thirty years ago. I didn't study at Warwick but spent a lot of time there including at extra mural classes in the mid 1980s while working in Coventry, and later researching in the @mrcwarwick, so it feels like a real family institution to us. Finn actually finished his PhD in computer science last December and is now enjoying working in a tech company which uses his skills in a way that he is morally comfortable with. Thanks to the university and host Piers Gibbon, for such a lovely ceremony.Some charmingly nerdy young people, normally naturally uncomfortable in the limelight, were able to delight their families and friends by walking across the stage without too much stress and accompanied by thundering applause. Definitely a day to remember.

Tulips were over in a flash this year but the wisteria is putting on a particularly good show.

Tulips were over in a flash this year but the wisteria is putting on a particularly good show.

It's that time of year again when we give thanks to Derek and Peter who planted this magnolia and camelia when they lived here some decades ago. They moved abroad twenty years ago and are both dead now but we continue to benefit from what our fellow street resident @charloharris describes as an act of garden altruism.

It's that time of year again when we give thanks to Derek and Peter who planted this magnolia and camelia when they lived here some decades ago. They moved abroad twenty years ago and are both dead now but we continue to benefit from what our fellow street resident @charloharris describes as an act of garden altruism.

It's that time of year again when we give thanks to Derek and Peter who planted this magnolia and camelia when they lived here some decades ago. They moved abroad twenty years ago and are both dead now but we continue to benefit from what our fellow street resident @charloharris describes as an act of garden altruism.

It's that time of year again when we give thanks to Derek and Peter who planted this magnolia and camelia when they lived here some decades ago. They moved abroad twenty years ago and are both dead now but we continue to benefit from what our fellow street resident @charloharris describes as an act of garden altruism.

It's that time of year again when we give thanks to Derek and Peter who planted this magnolia and camelia when they lived here some decades ago. They moved abroad twenty years ago and are both dead now but we continue to benefit from what our fellow street resident @charloharris describes as an act of garden altruism.

It's that time of year again when we give thanks to Derek and Peter who planted this magnolia and camelia when they lived here some decades ago. They moved abroad twenty years ago and are both dead now but we continue to benefit from what our fellow street resident @charloharris describes as an act of garden altruism.

Small (about 1 metre by 1.2 metres) quilted wall hanging as a try out for a bigger project. I'm hoping to - at some point - make a door sized version of this as a draft excluder. (I've become slightly obsessed with portiere rods and door curtains.) The design is based on the Sol Le Witt decorated Barolo Chapel in Piedmont. The photo of the chapel (final pic) is taken from the very lovely book about it published by @corrainiedizioni. My colour palette is different as I'm continuing to use up bits of Essex linen fabric that I already own. Quilting contour lines on a domestic sewing machine is - it turns out - a real workout!

Small (about 1 metre by 1.2 metres) quilted wall hanging as a try out for a bigger project. I'm hoping to - at some point - make a door sized version of this as a draft excluder. (I've become slightly obsessed with portiere rods and door curtains.) The design is based on the Sol Le Witt decorated Barolo Chapel in Piedmont. The photo of the chapel (final pic) is taken from the very lovely book about it published by @corrainiedizioni. My colour palette is different as I'm continuing to use up bits of Essex linen fabric that I already own. Quilting contour lines on a domestic sewing machine is - it turns out - a real workout!

Small (about 1 metre by 1.2 metres) quilted wall hanging as a try out for a bigger project. I'm hoping to - at some point - make a door sized version of this as a draft excluder. (I've become slightly obsessed with portiere rods and door curtains.) The design is based on the Sol Le Witt decorated Barolo Chapel in Piedmont. The photo of the chapel (final pic) is taken from the very lovely book about it published by @corrainiedizioni. My colour palette is different as I'm continuing to use up bits of Essex linen fabric that I already own. Quilting contour lines on a domestic sewing machine is - it turns out - a real workout!

Small (about 1 metre by 1.2 metres) quilted wall hanging as a try out for a bigger project. I'm hoping to - at some point - make a door sized version of this as a draft excluder. (I've become slightly obsessed with portiere rods and door curtains.) The design is based on the Sol Le Witt decorated Barolo Chapel in Piedmont. The photo of the chapel (final pic) is taken from the very lovely book about it published by @corrainiedizioni. My colour palette is different as I'm continuing to use up bits of Essex linen fabric that I already own. Quilting contour lines on a domestic sewing machine is - it turns out - a real workout!

Small (about 1 metre by 1.2 metres) quilted wall hanging as a try out for a bigger project. I'm hoping to - at some point - make a door sized version of this as a draft excluder. (I've become slightly obsessed with portiere rods and door curtains.) The design is based on the Sol Le Witt decorated Barolo Chapel in Piedmont. The photo of the chapel (final pic) is taken from the very lovely book about it published by @corrainiedizioni. My colour palette is different as I'm continuing to use up bits of Essex linen fabric that I already own. Quilting contour lines on a domestic sewing machine is - it turns out - a real workout!