mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Uk born, European by heart. A total magpie - I'm currently nesting in Derbyshire but am happiest in the wind, wandering and wondering.
I'm interested in most things. Always busy inventing, making, growing or just doing something.
Main passions: gardening, bonsai, #textileart, #embroidery, #felting, #cyanotyping, sculpture making pots, taking photos, live music, history, travel.
Born at 320PPM
Cover pic: Dancing in the Air III" by Annie Ovenden.
Profile pic: crow with a felting needle.
#wipWednesday
I was hoping it might be finished Wednesday today but as I was blocking and ironing it I spotted something I need to do 🫣 drat. Oh well, back to the hoop!
#WIPWednesday Before and after.
Last time I tooted about this piece I wasn't at all happy with it. A couple of weeks on and I've added more texture and shading, and some ox eye daisies and foxgloves (as everything is better with daisies and foxgloves) and...
I think I'm done!
#FotoVorschlag 'Der Weg ist das Ziel'
#PhotoSuggestion 'The journey is the reward'
That time I tried to recreate Parkhouse Hill & Chrome Hill in #wool
Fun fact: The walk over these 2 limestone reef knolls is known as the Dragon's Back ridge.
Not so #silentsunday
We demolished Dad's shed today and got it into the skip. In the process we encountered this abandoned wasp nest which I couldn't help but admire as it is so beautifully constructed.
The first 2 photos are mine, the 3rd is off the Internet just to give some idea of what it would have looked like in situ (I found it on the floor, after we'd pulled the roof down).
#FotoVorschlag Zahlen: Fünf
#photosuggestion Numbers: five
Uyghur bread maker in Ürümqi
#FotoVorschlag Objekte die mit "U" beginnen oder so aussehen ...'
#photosuggestion Objects that begin with "U" or look like this ...'
Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield
#FotoVorschlag 'asymmetrisch'
#PhotoSuggestion 'asymmetric'
and a bonus #fensterFreitag /#windowFriday
#FotoVorschlag 'Auf halber Höhe'
#photosuggestion 'Halfway up'
Pretty in pink 🩷
#photomonday - St Ann's Well, a 5000 year old geothermal spring which rises to the well from ½ a mile/1 km below ground and emerges at a steady 27 °C (80 °F).
A 16th-century act of Parliament ruled that a free supply of the spring water must be provided for the town's residents.
Even though Buxton Mineral water is now sold commercially, the well remains free and you can always see someone with a bag or even a carboot full of bottles.
It just occurred to me how rarely I take pictures of people nowadays. Before the internet I took candid photos all the time - as I love people watching. The stolen moments were just for my own photo albums/travel journals, so it felt ok... ish.
Now, my shots are empty, people less, or the people are background only, hopefully unrecognisable...
This digital age is already too intrusive and to me it feels wrong... but it makes me #sad and I just realised, more disconnected somehow...
Pretty in pink 🩷 from the archives pt3
A touching moment in a temple - I 💕 the expression on the child's face 😊
#FotoVorschlag #photosuggestion
#pink #china #1997
#FotoVorschlag 'Abseits der Touristen-Pfade'
#PhotoSuggestion 'Off the beaten track'
Walking across the 'Roof of Africa'
I loved these very cute pigeon babies and mum in their lantern fortress. Kudos to Mum for building that nest, there!
Pretty in pink 🩷 from the archives pt1
#FotoVorschlag #photosuggestion
#pink #tibet #1998
FotoVorschlag 'Der Weg ist das Ziel'
#PhotoSuggestion 'The journey is the reward'
For #firstfridayArtWalk here's a fabric collage inspired by a winter I spent in Andalusia. I wanted to remember the layers of buildings clustered up steep hillsides, shadows on the cobbles from the low sun, the oranges, and the ever present threat of a sudden storm. It's not framed yet, or even ironed as I'm still thinking about it... Meanwhile it's on the mantle piece waiting.
#textileart #fabricCollage #embroidery #Andalusia #spain #espana
Pretty in pink 🩷 from the archives pt2
#FotoVorschlag #photosuggestion
#pink #tibet #1998
Time shall spring forward, or some times fall back.
Chariots shall then be one hour outside of time for six months. Also machines of tiny waves.
"I haveth a Dream... And a song to singeth which helpest me to cope, with all matter of things.
If thou also canst see the wonder of a faerie tale, thou canst take the future.
Even if thou doth not succeed."
This!