Walking into a clean and orderly studio set up and waiting for my students to arrive. Quite moments in the evening tidying up and getting ready for the next day. My garden full of fabric and drying screens. The calm after the students leave, when my studio becomes my space again.

And along the way a riot of colour. Seven students across two five day Breakdown Your Palette workshops, each creating their own unique pieces of fabric. Creative, happy days spent in good company. I have missed this so much! Teaching is a bit different in this new normal but just as satisfying.

The new normal means being flexible - plans often change, both mine and my students. I’m having to reschedule the Books for Textile Artists workshops with Ruth Brown for next April and have had to delay the start of my upcoming Creative Surface Design class until November. I currently only have three places left on workshops in 2020. There is one place on my Introduction to Surface Design 1 day a month for 10 months course which starts on Saturday 26th September. There is one place on my Print Your Palette 5 day workshop (Monday 28th September to Friday 2nd October). And there is one place on my Creative Surface Design course which is spread across five weekends with the first weekend being the 21st and 22nd November. I am keeping all my fingers and toes crossed that next year is better and that we can all plan with a little more certainty.

But until then I have a lot to grateful for. A big thank you to Sharon, Sue, Heather, Judy T, Alison, Judy S and Mandy for keeping me company and inspiring me over the last two weeks!