A close-up of a long stole, (approx 2 m x 60cm, from memory) one of the girls in the class bought from Dorothy Caldwell, the teacher, which had been made by one of the Bihar women Dorothy and her team regularly visit in India.
Of apricot coloured silk, it was stitched all over in mostly an orange-red thread giving a wonderful shot sheen to it, and the border triangles were heavily stitched in tan and gold thread.

Lois fell in love with it and it really suits her well, I hope she wears it often…. yesterday I sent her a pic I took her of it draped around her while I was thinking of it. Then just showing underneath the orange one is part of a lovely navy scarf stitched with green which Dorothy wore quite a bit of the time – it was really cold. (You might not think so , Bunbury, 1st week in october, but it was – omg how time flies.)

Anyway, this week i found myself having a bit of sitting around waiting time in a medical environment with a family member, and that gave me the shove to start work on a hand dyed silk scarf which a student in the natural dyes workshop did for me ( I swapped one of my little kantha stitched things for two of them) – and in a few days I will put up a progress pic – but I have made a start. The current work on the quilt proved to be too heavy to cart around under these circs.

Reading has been mostly National Geographic , The Economist and the latest Down Under Quilts and The NZ Quilter, dipping-into kind of stuff rather than any sustained gripping reading – but the background is returning to normal, and I am set for a good read with several good new books sitting on the nightstand awaiting my attention.