for an account of thursday evening see the scrumpster - but my gin and tonic at the gin palace was fab (although the scrumpster's orange martini was fabber but stronger and not for the likes of me*) as was the food at post deng. but the revelation for me was that the part of the evening i had been dreading turned out to be better than ok - for years i have disliked frank zappa's music. it seemed discordant and loud and not music. but hearing it live i changed my mind - i listened to it instead of reacting to it and apart from the rather self indulgent everyone gets a solo in every song aspect i really enjoyed it. the poor scrumpster got progressively more and more ill as the evening progressed and we left before the encore and before the scrumpster collapsed in a feverish heap....
friday was spent in virus-laden sloth - reading the health-giving dorothy sayers (see previous post for the current obsession) and visiting the chiropractor to be given a clean bill of spine and bidden to return in three months for further tweaking...
saturday is a bit of a haze and today i spent in some lackadaisical cleaning and in creating an impromptu quilt.
in between courses of iron chef last night i decided to play with some paper (including some bangladeshi silk paper from the oxfam shop) and inks - it all seemed to work well together so this morning i layered them with some plain black cotton a salvaged felted blanket for batting and some black silk chiffon to tone down the sparkliness of the middle panel elements.
some frenzied 
free motion quilting later 
and i have the ginkgo shadows quilt (seen here mid quilting)
and here is the marmalade i made last weekend from last year's frozen seville oranges - really chunky and yumbo bumbo.
some of it anointed the bread and butter pudding which is currently in the oven (seen here preparing for its fate)
*i am a terrible drinker and feel woozy and giggly then sleepy after one glass of wine. cocktails are a one way street to oblivion i'm afraid...
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how about a post quilting pic of the ginko thingy?
btw they've announced the rules/categories for next year's Buda Textile thing and the theme is the same [ which seems odd to me ] - "Gold", with an added category 'Inspired by Buda' and it looks as if they've dropped the ethnic influence category.
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