Another slow stitch Sunday

I had to start with this picture of a handsome butterfly as the marjoram on the allotment was positively alive with bees and butterflies today. Masses of them happily feeding away in the sunshine. The ground is beautifully damp after recent rainfall, and I did an hour's pottering around before picking more raspberries and heading home, back aching.

Having dead headed some flowers in the front garden I got on with a slow stitch Sunday project.

I'd recently borrowed a book called 'Creative Collage' by Clare Youngs from the local library, and love the artist's bold graphic style. She shows how to make various paper & card collages, including one idea for creating gift tags. I wanted to try translating that into fabric. I chose neutral colours. White and different shades of grey, and made sure I used different textures for extra interest.

At first I thought I'd cut out label shaped pieces of white card, then glue the textile 'labels' on to them. But then I veered off in another direction. Cutting out squares of a pale grey cotton that, once ironed and trimmed to size, will be 6 inch squares. I'm appliqueing on to each as-yet-untrimmed square.

I'm not sure yet what these squares will be used for, but I may sew more of 'em and see where that takes me.

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