My computer has been slowly expiring and I have to let it go, so I've been shopping around for a new one. After seeing a program on a French channel about computers and built-in obsolescence, I took my time searching and avoided the companies who are most guilty of this. Computers are supposed to make our life easier, but they also cause a lot of stress.... Today I bit the bullet and bought a laptop. It will be operational in 48 hours.

Stitched feather

 Simplicity is the removal of the useless and the unnecessary--source unknown

This long weekend (today is a civic holiday) has been about feathers.
My longtime friend sent me another feather from her backyard in Australia and it set me off. I painted two feathers on a postcard for her, and started stitching another on a piece of antique linen.

This next piece was inspired by a huge pieced fabric by Julia Griffiths Jones depicting aspects of a collection at the National Wood Museum of Wales.

 My three days in Wales this summer yielded so many intangible treasures. One tangible treasure is the striped blue and cream Welsh wool scraps in this quilt, courtesy of my friend who generously let me have some.

Simplicity is the removal of the useless and the unnecessary--source unknown