Next steps in silences

 And onwards we go.  I took the covers for the book of silences home to work on because there were going to be storms and it would be good to have indoor activities planned whilst at home, where the car could be under cover and safe from hail. We were fortunate that we missed the hail; but it was 9-10cm in diameter in places and absolutely destroyed car windows, and windows and roofs.

There is something lovely about working with decked edges that always delights me, and slows me down. I keep looking at them, arranging them, checking them out from different angles, gathering them all together. There is no doubt I am smitten by them! As evidenced. 

And then it was back to the studio to start putting the books together, and thinking about the stitching. I decided at this point to add in another folio, so I had to cut them down and fold them as well.

And then all the folios were gathered into a book! Of course I reached the end and found I was one folio short. I checked the spares rack and the one folio for which I had no spare, was the one missing. Sod's Law as they say. So it was back to checking each and every single book again and I found (as I had hoped) that I had popped two of that folio into a single book and so I was bang on with the numbers printed. I'll take the win.

And here they are ready to be stitched. I have taken them all home again as more storms are predicted.

In between times as another whilst-waiting-at-home chore; I finally sorted the type sampler books for the type we have retained. What an effort that was for no good reason; it just took me ages and a few detours but I got there. We now have a couple of books that hold our exisiting type alphabetically and by size and by style. Well done me.

And just because they were wonderful to look at - these blossoms on the footpath plus shadows. Stunning!

I always want to call these flowers coral tree flowers; but am pretty sure they are from an Illawarra Flame Tree.