Bluebells and anemones

I’ve enjoyed myself this last week, though it’s been at the expense of cleaning the house I don’t care about that though, I mean would you?  Just look at the fantastic colours I came across when I was walking around a local reservoir with my friend Janie.

Perfect!

Can you get more bucolic than this?! Argal Reservoir is one of those lakes dotted with fisherman sitting patiently, and people walking their dogs. It’s probably only about 2 miles round so you often get families walking there at weekends.  I prefer it when it’s more quiet, ha, ha!

Scenes like this take my breath away.

Unfurling ferns glow in the shade

and the green, green moss slowly spreads.

I’m thinking about making a small quilt using these colours as inspiration.  I absolutely love blue and green together and used to use it all the time in my oil paintings (years ago) – emerald and cerulean blue, nothing beats it!

I’ve been enjoying looking at colour a lot this week and these anemones were no exception.  I bought them at the roadside and they’ve been brightening up my kitchen for almost a week now.  I also finally got the key cupboard up on the wall – I repainted it in January!

Simple pleasures.

Simple colour.

We’ve had fantastic warm and sunny weather here for the past few days and I think it’s finally got me motivated enough to go out for a run. I did 6 miles on Friday, but I need to do a lot more regular running if I’m going to enter a half marathon in October. That was IF! If I do it, I’ll probably try and raise money for the mental health charity Mind.  In the mean time I need to sort out a training schedule.  If I find more hedgerows like this on my routes that shouldn’t be too much of a problem

A riot of spring colour!

I hope you’re not too disappointed that I haven’t brought you any pictures of things I’ve been making this week; that’s because they’re not finished yet, but hopefully they will be by the end of the day, so come back soon to see!  If you want to see a lovely bit of hand quilting right this minute though take a trip over to Jo Avery’s blog to see her spiderweb quilt that she finished this week, it’s l o v e r l y!!

Time for another run now, and then some pottering and more making.  So I’ll see you soon my lovelies.

Love Stephie x