If you’re interested in art, or even if you’re not, you’ve probably heard about Antony Gormley’s Fourth Plinth project ‘One & Other‘. If you haven’t heard about it the commission involves a different member of the public standing on the empty Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square every hour, 24 hours a day, for 100 days, to make a living monument. Each individual may use their hour on the plinth as they wish.

I’m really excited to be, in a very small way, part of of this amazing piece of art history by creating one patchwork square (of many) for a quilt which will be displayed on the plinth to celebrate women in the East Midlands. Continue Reading »

The work in progress is both my impatience and this blog. Being quarantined for the past few days with some kind of winter flu has at least given me the time to get online but don’t be surprised if you come back and things have changed a little, or a lot.

The ‘Spirograph‘ shapes in the design are just right for a couple of reasons. First of all they remind me of a pattern in a skirt (well, its actually a top but will blossom into a pretty skirt soon) that I bought from the Mind charity shop a couple of weeks ago. Continue Reading »