Hanging by a Thread

 

Hanging by a Thread

Bandages so far, darned and embriodered with hedgerow dyed yarns.

 

Hanging by a Thread

Preparing the next fleece.  A white woodland from Saddleworth

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Carded and ready to spin.  The fleece has a short staple and is proving difficult  to spin.  It will be used to knit bandage five.  One for each change in lockdown status

Hanging by a Thread

 

Four months on.  Autumn is in the air, locked down, unlocked, semi lock down, we await this week's announcement.  Nature continues its cycle oblivious to our plight.  

Hanging by a Thread

"Above all do not lose your desire to walk.  Everday I walk myself to a state of well-being from every illness.  I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no other thought so burdomsome that one cannot walk away from it.  But by sitting still, the closer one comes to feeling ill.  Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be alright."
Soren Kierkegaard

Hanging by a Thread

Hanging by a Thread

Hanging by a Thread

Three months into the lockdown.  Now I'm much more aware of the awakening of Spring and moving to early summer.  I have watched the spring flowers bloom and set seed, the ash and the sycamore are already bearing their keys.  I have wandered over the catchment watershed territory listening to the calls of the lapwing and curlew and the glorious song of the skylark.  All the time the bandage grows and the chaos reigns.

Hanging by a Thread

Hanging by a Thread

Hanging by a Thread

Hanging by a Thread

Hanging by a Thread

Knitting the time line a bandage, protecting and mending.  Darned with hedgerow dyed yarns subtle colours, from nature, the quiet often un-noticed other.  The activity, meditative and calming, shutting out the chaos.

Hanging by a Thread recording the daily walk

Hanging by a Thread sketch book pages

Thinking through the ideas.  The challenge to find in nature new things each day.  There are plenty but my eye/mind isn't trained to spot them.  Hopefully I'll get better.

Back to the Ash Trees

After the tree a week for Twitter, I'm now making work for the Ash Tree.

Catchment

Amulets for Watershed Settings, at the framers, for an exhibition later in the year, maybe.

Catchment Project

Work in progress, Watershed Settings, for the Catchment Project with Pennine Artists

Alder Tree Project

Catkins washed from the trees by the heavy rain.