Just a couple of photos today and not much text as I’m about to resume night time nanny duties in London. The Scottish Referendum vote is followed almost immediately by the party conference season and both daughter No1 and her husband are doing their seasonal dragging of suitcases, notebooks and microphones around the UK’s conference hotspots.

Altar frontal: revised sunflower and original sunflower (hand embroidered by Mary Addison)

Somehow sunflower mark 2 grew and I found myself having to appliqué the leaves beyond the border of the black star.  At the moment I like the effect, although it is always possible that I shall find it really irritating in the future – time will tell.

Altar frontal: revised sunflower and original sunflower (hand embroidered by Mary Addison)

If you thirst to revise the fascination of sunflower heads and the layout of their seeds according to the Fibonacci series, do look back to here.

The only other  thing I wanted to add to this and to the previous sunflower posts was a photo of the terracotta sunflowers that decorate the front  of a few houses in Arts and Crafts Bedford Park (the world’s first garden suburb on the Chiswick/Acton borders in West London) but once again I have managed neither to go myself nor to persuade friends  still living there to do it for me. I lived in Chiswick for 25 years but to look at my photographs, you would never guess. Meanwhile I hope you enjoy embroidered versions.