Last week’s pro­ject involved the mer­ging of two sketches into a mini-quilt, using one of my most favour­ite fab­rics, Cecelia from Ikea. It’s also my first foray into hand quilt­ing. After vis­it­ing the V&A quilt exhib­i­tion, I really wanted to hand quilt some­thing — I doubt this’ll be in the V&A in 300 years, and I’m not sure I ever see me hand quilt­ing an actual full-sized quilt, but I love the effect so much more than machine quilting.

Energy levels are low at the moment, but everything’s still get­ting done.… even­tu­ally. Just a little bit more slowly. Still, at least if there’s an alien inva­sion and only the people who have cut out 208 cream 9cm fab­ric squares can sur­vive, we’ll be okay: