After a few days in lovely Rosedale, North Yorkshire, I’m about ready to get back to work. We walked many miles in clean air, had lots of good food, and stayed in a quiet B & B with a garden shared with a barn owl, tawny owl and pipistrelle bats.
Of course there was time for a little on-location sketching and painting too.
The colour palette at this time of year is beautiful.
I do like a dry stone wall.
We came across a stone cross on the moors, originally marking a barrow, I think. It had some really interesting marks carved into it:
It had to be done in collage and stitch when we got home:
I have more images and colours to explore from the photos I took, and I’m looking forward to getting on with that this week.
It’s amazing how refreshing a few days away from it all can be. A bit of time and space to find yourself again.
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Love seeing your reflections of your time away in ink and paint and thread and fabric. Brilliant!
thanks so much Beth, it was just a short break but definitely not short on inspiration 🙂
❤️so interesting!❤️
thanks so much
Always great to get a few days away! Received your yarns…..wow! I LOVE THEM!
thanks so much Ginger, glad you like the threads. Happy stitching 🙂
Using your first monthly template in the next few days. Wish you were my neighbor!
Your online tutorial was filled with such great info!!!! Loved it!
that’s very kind, thank you. I think in the land of Internet we’re pretty much all neighbours 🙂
So lovely to see the results of a trip away. Lovely Karen!
thanks so much Martine
That seems like a lovely trip, and it’s always good to have a bit of time in really open spaces..
absolutely, lovely to get away for a couple of days