thinking big...

...if you follow me on twitter, you'll know that a few weeks back i felt a bit flat and deflated - it's been difficult getting into a new school routine, the boys are at a new school and they finish later plus it's about half an hour's drive away. quite different to the half hour turn around i'd been used to, i'm lucky if we're home by half four, then a quick dash to organise dinner before getting the boys to tennis/cricket/football training, then dashing back to actually get dinner cooked (of course there's plenty of time to sort out dinner in the day, but that would makes things far too easy...) today is tuesday and i'm revelling in the fact there are NO clubs tonight! anyway, the point is, i've been tired and grumpy and COMPLETELY uninspired, hence no blog posts for forever.

then throw into the mix that i discovered that my 'bloomsbury' print in my last moda collection had been ripped off by lecien (another story, i'll tell you if there's ever any response from the company, if you don't follow me on instagram take a look at my feed, i'm @lusummers)

so the other day, i cleared all my crap from the print table, covered it in 2 metres of PFD (prepared for dyeing) fabric and got to work. i deliberately didn't want to think about colour, just shape and pattern so i used black ink...this is where i am after 3 days of printing - (not constantly, you'll be relieved to know!) some bits work, others not so well and i'm not sure if it's finished or whether i want to start adding new colours, or what i will do with it afterwards but the exercise has done exactly what i wanted - taken me out of my comfort zone by thinking big...and it's been lovely.

PS...tomorrow's the first turkey shed workshop, very nervous but very excited, i'll take pics if i remember!

in progress

in progress 

goal!