Some sunshine yellow to welcome in the merry month of May! I do wish we could have a bit more actual sunshine, it has been bitterly cold here in Fife this week, with very cold nights and some frost in the early morning. Flowers, very sensibly, are refusing to bloom in the real world but are still going strong in my work.

A run of beautiful warm sunshine this week proved a big distraction - I didn't want to be indoors at all. We had a couple of barbecues, one evening we ate our evening meal as a picnic on the grass. The next evening we lit the barbecue again, but while we were cooking our marinated spatchcock chicken which I had prepared earlier in the day, the cold came back in and we retreated indoors to eat. 
I did get my sketchbook and paints outdoors, though, and the pop-up tent went up as my 'outdoor studio' - which I am pleased to report I am getting quite proficient at folding up and putting away now. Last year there were a couple of hysterically hilarious antics, not aided by wine and B cracking jokes at my attempts. I bought the tent in 2016 and have used it every summer since, so 5 years practice is finally paying off!

I started working on roundels like this in 2019 and never used them for anything. I have been pulling out different drawings this week to put into repeat with some surprising and interesting results, and found them during the process. My interest was rekindled when I saw possibilities for densely figured patterns. I think at the time I didn't really know what they were, so they got shelved until now. I had forgotten all about them, but now I think they resemble crocheted mats and I see good possibilities for my Granny's Attic collection in my Redbubble shop. 
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