Working on a new piece

Been very busy trying to get a piece done to send out to Italy  for an exhibition based on celebration of the vine in Verona.  - hence no time to write on the blog. However, hope to catch up with  recording some of my recent textiles activities soon as I am off up to the Lake District on a creative textile retreat.

The piece is made in differing weights of silk, dyed and overdyed which has then been pieced and quilted - the colours of the silk are intended to represent the ripening of the red grape from the emergence of the first leaves through the maturing on the grape for wine.