Sardinia

I've just come back from a lovely holiday in Sardinia.

Above is a photo of cork trees.

We visited a museum one day when it was raining and saw this rack of shoe forms and this unusual picture frame below.

On the day we were coming home I was up earlier and caught the sun rising.

Red Sky at Night and Embroidered T-Shirt

We have had some really colourful sky recently

I bought a plain t-shirt and stitched on some flowers. The t-shirt is actually a lot darker and a different colour than the photo looks, it's like a really dark jade. Instructions below.

I drew a sketch on paper, then I put some stabiliser on top [something like stitch and tear although I think mine was regular stitching stabiliser]. As you can see through the stabiliser it is possible to copy the design onto it, I used a pen.

Pin the stabiliser to the right side of the t-shirt where you want the placement, then embroider - I used back stitch.

Then carefully tear off the stabiliser. Job done.

Feathers in the Sky and more pages from my sketchbook

There were some interesting things in the sky yesterday. I could hear a lot of planes - the Sunderland Air Show was on - but I also saw these feathers in the sky, well clouds but they look like feathers. Click on the images to enlarge.

More pages from sketchbook 16

There were also a lot of bees and wasps flying around yesterday too, but I only saw one like this.

Window [TM]

Three Muses challenge - window

The broken window is an altered photo.  I took the original picture, shown below a few years ago. The sky is also a photo and the lovely bird is from Graphics Fairy.

Below is a covered book [A3] for keeping research on a C&G project. I painted fabric before covering,  the project was about animal skins.