A new plan

Since the art foundation course finished I've been catching up with other deadlines until recently - but once you get caught up, once there's no deadline, things can drift on or fall apart...

So I've decided to spend from 9am till 1pm, the four days a week I'm at home, in the studio/workroom.

Yesterday was the first day of the new plan, and instead of settling right in to do some drawing, I ended up climbing on the table and hauling down all the repurposed fabric (mostly still in the form of clothes from the Mind shop's £1 rail), sorting them out, and folding them up.

This pile is for a baby quilt that might get made sooner or later (it's a boy) -
Then there are all the silks, linens and cottons that might be used in a new piece that is gestating - the reds for accents -
various neutrals -
and (two birds with one stone photo-wise) - darks and lights and more of those neutral mid-tones -
Very pleasant to sort and fold and listen to Radio 4, but it did take three hours! In the time remaining, and with some of the seams cut out of some of the garments that were already half cut up, a bit of design work - not going anywhere in particular yet -
The background is based on the activity in another part of the room -
which in turn started from finding those pale squares, already cut into three sizes. Not sure this is going anywhere, but "just doing" is another way to get ideas moving.

Today hasn't been as productive and already I'm cheating, writing this blog post in studio time.... I spent most of the time thinking about how to take the TravelWriting further. One possibility is to use different writing implements. Here's a shortlist of what's on hand, which I'll be sampling in the little sketchbook in its vibrant cover (thanks Mags!)