The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
The Last Will Of Sven Andersen
Booms And Busts
Buster & Moo
Salisbury Square
My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
Life, in a Grain of Sand
Life In A Flash
Tag Archives: quilts
Week Thirty-Six: 2022 – Just One Last Thing
This week has been about the Quilt show, one way or another, so I thought I’d finish with this. It’s a twelve foot square panel that had to be laid on the lawn and was tricky to photograph. Can you … Continue reading
Posted in 2022, Dulwich, miscellany, quilts, thought piece
Tagged 2022, Dulwich, garden, quilts, thought piece
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Being Blown Away
Today, I walked 17,000 steps and climbed Kilimanjaro. And it was all done indoors. How? Why? Tomorow and Sunday the quilt group the Textiliste belongs to hosts their bi-annual exhibition. Long time readers may recall they held a special last … Continue reading
That Quilt Show
Some more images from my delightful wife’s curated quilt show. One set of quilts inspired by a John Cooper Clark poem.. These were the idea of a city lawyer who leant to quilt when recovering from a serious illness. He … Continue reading
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Tagged cot quilts, exhibition, linus quilts, quilts, south london scrubbers
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In praise of… crafts
Jennie Fitzee blogs about life as an elementary school teacher – if you don’t yet know her. Recently she’s run a series of posts about the genesis of two delightful classroom quilts inspired by her children and created by a … Continue reading
Airports and Quilts
Airports bother me. They’re too large and too redolent of Big Brother wrapped up as a shopping experience. To start with, as a Brit, I detest seeing anyone wandering around openly totting a submachine gun. I get that I’m … Continue reading
Posted in art, children, families, miscellany, New Zealand, travel
Tagged airports, Heathrow, quilts, travel, York Quilt Museum
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