The unknown sketchbook

 I feel very lucky to have this sketchbook

I didn't sketch in this book

It belonged to my Dad and although some of the drawings look like his style of drawing

I think the book belongs to a friend of his called Mary.

I love it's simple lines and the colours in it. I feel very inspired to do some of these drawings however could never work into the book as I would feel like I was defacing it. I have seriously considered photopying some of the unfinished pages to use as a colouring book, does anyone have any ideas.

More images of my quilt

I'm not really sure what is going on with putting pics on blogger at the moment but I can only put a maximum of 2 at a time on. If you want to see more images then please feel free to go over here to see more images.If you would like to do something similar you can go here as this is where I was inspired and karen is running a course again soon, well worth it if you ask me.
The inspiration for this quilt came as my Mum died July last year and I got a lot of hankies, tray cloths and table cloths. I knew Karen was running this course and I really felt I would like to do something with all these fabrics which went back through my family. I could have kept them all in a drawer as they were and bought them out for tea times but I don't live my life that way as much as I would love to my family would not appreciate sitting down to a fresh table cloth with linen napkins every day and i also don't have the time to sort it out so I hope my Mum and other relatives from my past would be pleased with this quilt. I know my Mum would be as she had previously seen Karen's work and loved it. She was always pleased with my work even if she did put a lot of it in the back of her wardrobe. It feels strange not showing it to her but I think she would be proud of it. I feel incredibly proud and want to show it off to everyone. Its strange as I have never felt like that about anything else. It will not be my last quilt for now I am sketching sections of it and thinking about the next quilt.

My quilt

I have finally finished my quilt. I feel very pleased with myself. I did have more pictures and also a link to the class that I did the quilt for however blogger has closed each of my posts so here is the one picture I will try and show the links at a later date

Fresh start

I'm back from my holiday and had a lovely time. Well I've been home for over a week but been back at work so this is my proper day off since coming home. I have been busy though. i bought a book, extraordinary sketchbooks and also looked at some of my other books. I also celebrated my birthday while on holiday, we spent the day watching whales on a boat, swam with some invisible turtles and the evening was spent at a wonderful restaurant with my husband and daughter, my son was home although was also due to travel before we got home. He got to spend mothers day with me so all was not lost.I got a voucher for Hobbycraft however I own half the stock that any hobby shops own and am trying to pair down what I own, so I didn't want to add to it too much but I did need some new paintbrushes as mine seem to have disappeared, I got some mid range brushes as I have one very good one although the handle was chewed by my dog when she was a puppy, it still works though. I thought the better brushes might make my painting a bit better. I also bought a new sketchbook, not that I needed another one but it was square and just the right size.
I have decided to make this sketchbook a theme and that will be about textiles, embroidery stitching, either my own or other peoples that inspire me. I hope to make it a colourful book thereby using some of my supplies, I may stitch or use any other media in it and I hope it will inform my further work. Of all the things i love doing I decided yesterday it is embroidery and drawing, so I hope to improve in both these areas.
This was sketched from my iphone from a woodland walk, I wanted it to be very free and loose but i think I need to improve my photography as it is skew whiff.
This was also drawn from my iphone and was inspired by a giant tortoise that chased my dramatic daughter whilst on holiday. I tried to paint the sketches but the ink leaked, i may try and use my coloured pencils on it.

I have no problem drawing and stitching but I find it a problem to keep going on the computer so have decided to post on my day off and try and read posts on that day or when free at work, it can be all consuming trying to read everyones blogs as it then stops me from doing any work to show. I hope nobody minds.

Bon voyage

I thought I should post another sketch and also a picture of some other work I am doing. The cloth is made up of pieces of vintage cloth some of it was from my mums collection stitched or crocheted by aunts or my gran. It has been a healing thing to do after my mum passed away. I did an online course with this very talented lady
Anyway the Bon voyage bit. I am off on holiday again this time to Tenerife to see my daughter and it is my birthday on Wednesday I have never been on holiday for my birthday before. I am going tomorrow morning bright and early so have a lovely time while I'm away.

Also just realised it would have been my Dads birthday today, so Happy Birthday dad and Happy Mothers Day Mum, Enjoy heaven xx

Never boring or bored

I have had some time to kill and was in an office with only myself for company so started looking for something to sketch and I found this little 3d mockup of a section of spine maybe the neck I'm not sure. Anyway I like the abstractness is that a word and just thought I would keep up with the habit of drawing and posting so here goes

I'm back again

I seem to keep starting and stopping with drawing and blogging. I even stopped reading blogs as I felt so guilty so big apologies to my fellow bloggers as I haven't been around. I just read a Danny Gregory post he has also neglected his drawing but his post did speak to me so I hope to continue to draw and blog as its so lovely to have this contact and maybe I will draw something better than this sauce bottle