Socialising

What have I been up to in the past week?   A lot of socialising and not too much work!   We did however, do a short stint blackberrying and then made them into jam - I had to scrounge some jars first though!.  

Wednesday was a lovely day, a couple of us met up with another old friend from City and Guilds days and had a lovely, long, gossipy lunch and I got home just in time to pick up my husband for a family barbecue.  Our eldest grandson would be leaving home to start a Sixth Form course at Chethams College of Music in Manchester so it was a little farewell to him with family and friends.      It was lovely to relax in the garden eating and drinking until well after the sun went down and we had to go inside.    

On Friday, Liz and I spent the whole day with Dianne Owen mounting and labelling the 200 or so successful prints for the SRGB Print First Print Celebration exhibition at Dobbies Garden Centre, Bentham Way, Southport, from 7^th – 21^st September.     Today, along with several other members of the group, we framed them up ready be hung before the opening on 7^th.   What a mammoth task!

 

background and painted bondaweb

 

bluebell wood

 At the weekend, I actually got time to ‘play’ so I made a picture of a bluebell wood using painted bondaweb and hand and machine embroidery - it's actually mounted and framed now.

  I also managed to finish a couple of fabric book covers.   On Monday, keeping up my efforts to use up some of the fabric scraps I collect (hoard), I painted some quilted fabric which I hope to use to make needle cases.   The fabric was left over from the ‘Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat’ I made for one of our granddaughters for Christmas 2011.