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Subverting the quilt Log cabin collage. #batextilespractice @bradfordtextiles #collage
Many thanks to @andiwalker1965 for sharing his practice with us @bradfordtextiles this weekend. So much to think about now. #batextilespractice
Thank you to the @peacemuseumuk for giving me access to some amazing banners from the Greenham Common Peace Camp today. Lots of inspiration for my current project #batextilespractice @bradfordtextiles #greenhamcommonpeacecamp #thaliacampbell #ban
Looking forward to spending time with the work of the @the62group tomorrow as I take my turn at invigilating their exhibition at Salts Mill. #textileart #62grouptextileartists
Experimenting with juxtaposition. No quilts were harmed in this experiment. #canadianredcrossquilt #greenhamcommonbanner #armybarracks #textileproject3 #batextilespractice @bradfordtextiles
Another great session at the BQSG seminar. @joethequilter took us through his Quilting Life. Lots of inspiration for the future. Thanks to @thequiltersguild and #qgbibqsg
Excellent talk from Helen of the @bradfordtextiles to the British Quilt Study Group seminar. We’ll be visiting the archive for a study day in the Spring. #quiltersguildbqsg @thequiltersguild #britishquiltstudygroup
An excellent morning diving into the Quilters Guild Collection to look at three of their Canadian Red Cross quilts. Each with a story to tell, we know a little but it would be lovely to know more. @thequiltersguild #batextilespractice @bradfordtext
A planned visit to @whitechapelgallery to see the exhibition Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent was turned into a lesson from the master! @peterkennardx was there to speak with a small group of students, but he gamely took on the much larger crowd who
Spotting banners of various kinds while on holiday in Liverpool. Never not thinking about textile projects. #Fdatextilespractice @bradfordtextiles @museumofliverpool @livcathedral #protestart #banners

Good weekend

beanz
Friday social

A small but select group of forumites met on Friday night - LMH and mark, SuzyQ and MrSuzyQ (who has now become a forumite and has his own name - fotoman), Muzzy and Rory Coleman - famous mad ultra man and inventor of Marathon of Britain

I think I volunteered to crew at the MOB 2006 - subject to MrBeanz agreement - more of that later.


Saturday
Off to visit friends in flattest Lincolnshire - had planned to plod a couple of miles early, but didn't make it - however we did walk a couple or three miles at Gibraltar Point - fantastic Nature Reserve - lots of geography - and birds too!

Good to meet up with old friends - mrbeanz's friends really and they were able to tell the teenbeanzes all sorts of tales of mrbeanz's mis-spent student days - so what they thought might be a boring trip turned out all right in the end!

Sunday
Up fairly early for a four mile plod. Good clear autumnal morning, not too cold and little traffic on the main road I plod along.

Mile Pace AHR
1 13:32 131 includes 5 min warm up walk
2 14:40 140 includes lots of stretching at 1.5 miles and 1.9 miles
3 13:07 144 undulating return keeping HR under control
4 13:56 146 Killer Hill
4.0 13:49 140 a good plod I thought


Was contemplating why I want to go off for a week and crew for MOB - I don't even like camping!

I think it is some kind of mid-life thing - not exactly a crisis - but I have been a wife and mother for 22 years and not done anything away from all of that that is exciting or challenging until FLM this year. Decided not to enter FLM again until I know I have a chance of doing it significantly quicker.

So need something to look forward to and be involved in - and maybe this is it?

It will be the first week in September, the teenbeanzes' first week back in Sixth Form, mrbeanz's birthday at the end of the week - so not ideal timing but there is always something ...

I'll think some more....................

mmmmmmmm

plodding on