Though I’m continuing on with the back and gold hand appliqued piece, each day I’m also doing a small sample of something, two recent ones being in this post. Not taking long over making or posting them … this is a visual diary, after all, not a half day workshop 🙂

In the first, I’m still thinking about the corona virus – aren’t we all, all of the time? Bonded neon fabrics, neon threads, stemmed french knots … and by the time I’d gone this far, I could see that the weight of thread I have, which is like a large buttonhole twist or upholstery sewing thread, makes a nice looking virus unit stitched into the smaller circles of fabric. So, if I wanted to make a large piece, I’d need heaps and heaps of little circles. Time’s not especially important – after all, there’s a pandemic on. The new infection numbers in Uruguay are better than they were a few weeks ago, but still awful compared with 2020. There are still 6 more weeks until my second Pfizer shot, and then the post vaccination wait of 2-3 weeks … so I’m still not nearly ready to resume any in-person social life, inside or out.

In the next sample I tried a couple of things with my favourite little segmented landscape block.