Heatwave Incoming!

 It's pleasant here today, even a sprinkling of rain but from tomorrow temperatures are set to rise to the mid 30's during the week. Thankdfully not the 40 degrees plus that our friends in France will have but still a tad too hot for us. It is going to affect the whole of southern England with London and the East getting higher temperatures. Our new conservatory roof is going to get a good work out.

This last week has been pleasant and some tidying has happened in the garden. I have picked the first tomatoes (cherry), cucumbers and mange tout peas - plenty more to come. I suspect that anyone who visits will be presented with a cucumber (no sniggering please) as there seems to be a glut forming already.

I have been working on my Stitch Journal of course. Here are this weeks offerings.

And the socks are finished.

These were made using Stylecraft's Head Over Heels, Colours of the World, Sacred Earth and I do love these colours. I have completed the cuff on my next pair - there is a lot of cricket and football around!

I have dyed the white panel I showed you last week.

I think I was a little over ambitious and used too much tea and rust but however it's fine and will probably (thanks Julie) fade in time. I dyed it flat sandwiched between some sheets of paper which I had not tried before and found on this video which is excellent.

So, the results.

This piece of paper went on the bottom with a few leaves scattered on

and I will definitely repeat without the rust as there are some lovely prints in there.

Next the fabric and then another layer of paper with the butterfly and a snowflake on.

Then two thinner sheets of paper with a few screws in between.

These will be cut to page size and added into my sketchbook. For the time being though I need to stitch into my panel and have some beads and threads ready to go.

I finally got to the Roger Fry exhibition in my local museum this week. Roger Fry Which I enjoyed very much. I think this was my favourite painting because of the colour and design

but there were many different paintings in differing styles from throughout his life.

I am ashamed to say that after 4 years here in Taunton it was my first visit to the Museum of Somerset but I shall definitely be going back! The gallery where the exhibition was held was excellent, plenty of space and air con (might be worth another fiver to go back for the air con next week). Good lighting and plenty of information about the artist and the paintings. The whole place looks very swish so I will be back again soon to browse their collections.

Well, I think that is all for now, have a good week.