An Almanac From Lockdown

October Lockdown - one square a day

Like many people, I set myself little challenges during lockdown to keep my creativity alive. This piece was October 2019. I worked at creating one square a day. The squares are mounted on felt. The pink is coffee foil packets with decorative threads and burgundy organza, free machine quilted. In the centre of each square I button holed a black circle of felt and then offset a used teabag in the centre of the felt. The centres were all embellished differently with things from my stash

There are 31 squares and these have been mounted in 4 columns (weeks in a month) by 7 rows (days in a week) The remaining days were attached at the bottom. This is the first time I had used strings of beads to join things and I found that quite difficult to keep things in alignment and to finish off the threads so the beads did not come undone. The end squares have small lavender tassels to complete the piece