Whetting the appetite

I have already ordered my Mark Hearld Notebook in anticipation of the next project with Sue Ross at Material Obsession.  This is completely consistent with my previous behaviour in all things quilting which is to have at least 3 or 4 projects going at the same time, and at least another couple forming in my head.

Not content with waiting for the post to arrive, I have been looking up Mark Hearld on the World Wide Web.  And I am seriously impressed.  Not only is he more talented than I am, he is also younger than me.  Born in 1974, he studied illustration at Glasgow College of Art and then completed an MA in Natural History Illustration at the Royal College of Art.  According to St Jude's Prints, he has taken his inspiration from the flora and fauna of the British countryside, and  works across a number of mediums, producing limited edition lithographic and linocut prints, unique paintings, collages and hand-painted ceramics.

Here is some eye candy.  Oh and I have started hard sewing that basket ..... All I can say is that I found it necessary to baste the sides of vertical lines in place before weaving in the horizontals.  Photo soon ...