I feel that the fine strands of blue-green algae floating in a pond or waving gently in a slowly flowing stream are very fine ‘landscape lines’ – because they would not exist in linear form outside of their watery environment. Lift them out of the water and they’re just a dripping blob with almost no volume. If you’ve ever gathered some of these strands in your hand you know how very fine and very soft they are, rather like wet hair, but much more fragile.

I have quantities of some lovely blue, green and citric green fabrics, including some large pieces left from the bedspread I made for our bed made several years ago. Then there are some more of what I call offcuts, and then there are many little bits, scraps, which I always save, down to my cutoff point of about 1″sq. Such tiny snippets are just too small to sew, but I discard them with some reluctance, anyway.

This morning I hauled out the scrap bags, and began putting together groups of fabrics into strips to make a larger version of “Spirogyra”, my 2024 SAQA Auction quilt:

Instead of black, the background of this new work will be a dark pondy, greenish, brownish hard-to-define-colour. I love those murky colours which tend to take on an extra richness in response to the colours you place on them.

After my recent medical time-out, it’s taken a while to get my physical and mental self back into the routine of spending hours at a time in my workroom – and my physical routine needs further tweaking. This morning I put in a decent chunk of time first thing before going downstairs for a walk and some late breakfast. Tomorrow I’ll do the same, but plan for several hours in the afternoon, too. I’ve arranged for photography of two works to be done a week from tomorrow, one of which is a Quilt National 25 entry, but I’m planning a late run at another QN25 entry! If I find I just can’t finish this last minute wonder then there’s always something in the future for which it will be perfect ….