Thought for a Sunday: the growth of an idea

I clipped this quote from Victoria Magazine, about the British textile artist Margaret Murton. Sorry I do not have the author's name.

"Not a week passes without a long walk to investigate nature's latest unveiling: a newborn fawn in the deer park of the close-by abbey, the first appearance of the hellebores, those shy greenish pink harbingers of early spring, or a trillium poking through the forest floor.

"On their rambles, Margaret captures details with her sketch pad or camera: honeysuckle tendrils twining through a briar rose, daisies running rampant across a field. These images are often the first step in the long, sometimes discouraging, often inspiring, and always disciplined journey of converting a design to tapestry. In her studio, inspired by the image, or by poetry, or by a motif from a tapestry fragment, Margaret begins to arrange the elements into a design, mingling them, thinning or rearranging them, playing with the repeats until something new and fresh emerges."

Photo credit: Mr. Fixit