I wish I had about another sets of hands, duplicate equipment and work spaces, so that I could follow several different ideas at a time – but dream on, Alison!

Well, one way to capture those ideas as they pop up in my mind is to make a quick sample, so that the ‘essence’ of that idea is there when I have time to come back to it and explore. I occasionally reach for my set of 100 x 3.5inch technique samples I mounted each day on foam core during the 2021 SAQA Reboot 100 day challenge – and here are some favourites, and a couple of those technical ideas have found their way into things I’ve done since.

One of the enduring inspirational themes in my art is ‘landscape’ in it’s broadest sense. Much of what I do is repeat units of diagrams in fabric and thread of recurring patterns of lines and shapes. In 2022 I acquired some fabric scraps from a fellow art quilter in USA. After adding more of my own, many of them wound up in lines, or strips, of pieced patches of colour –

So yesterday’s sample suddenly offered new potential for crossing over strips of pieced fabric onto a background and achieve a greater sense of depth…

Oh yes, and have I ever said that green is my favourite colour?