Patchwork

 A morning spent sifting through my sewing bag over the weekend and gathering bundles of fabric together for potential quilts. I collect fabric at any opportunity - which makes for quite a mixed selection of print and colour. Charity shops often have brilliant scraps of vintage fabric, but of course Shepherd's Bush market (the motherland) is hard to beat. Two quilt options below.

All The Pretty Horses

I've just finished reading All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. A fantastic book which I urge anyone to read - especially if like me, you love cowboys... Such beautiful descriptions of Mexico, friendship, love and honour. I was reminded of my trip to Mid West America back in 2011. Cowboy country - so many diners like this one, selling delicious things... See the cinnamon buns below. Big enough to feed a cowboy and his horse surely... 

Woven Wire

A beautiful and inspiring show earlier this year at David Zwirner Gallery in Mayfair - Ruth Asawa's woven wire sculptures and line drawings. I love the relationship between the two - and how one informs the other. Asawa's sculptures were inspired by a trip to Mexico in 1947, where a local craftsman taught her how to weave a basket out of wire.

Loved this picture of Asawa working at home surrounded by her children

1957

Photo by Imogen Cunningham

Whitechapel

As the Nation's windows fill with rainbows drawn by children for NHS workers - in Whitechapel saris' have been used to create an alternative version.

I love Whitechapel, normally so lively and bustling! Yesterday I walked down a very quiet Mile End Road, noticing lots of buildings and shops for the first time. Like the rainbows, all over London messages of positivity are popping up.

From houses and flats to billboards and graffiti, it's great to see street art of one form or another being used to buoy each other along.

Dawn Walk

Spring getting on with things while we're all living altered patterns of life... Loved the pattern these neon green grasses made in the River Lea

Easter Monday

Beautiful sunshine, shadows and colours on a walk round the block on Easter Monday

Bank Holiday Haiku

Easter Bank Holiday has passed - and so differently to previous years spent with family in Cornwall. I spent the weekend cooking, and enjoyed some wine I bought with winnings from the virtual Grand National earlier this month...

Haiku

A perfect white wine 

is sharp, sweet and cold as this:

birdsong in winter.

By Wendy Cope

from Family Values

More time can be spent over breakfast at the moment - and so a chance for every jar and condiment to have its moment of glory.

Finding what I've been squirrelling away in the fridge and cupboards has been eye opening - several jars of open mustard, capers, tahini, tamarind paste...? The list goes on......

Anenomes

Wild anemones growing in my local park - Spring flourishing!

Still Life Saturday

Saturday in isolation - put together a quick still life to draw. Not entirely successful but a nice way to spend an afternoon!