…is what I’ll have if I don’t make it to see Tracey Emin’s show at the Hayward. I heard her interviewed on Weekend Woman’s Hour, after reading Brian Sewell moaning about her ‘not appealing to half the population’ in the Evening Standard. I think she’s great, and I particularly like her writing – Strangeland, her book about growing up in Margate, I highly recommend. Below is a quilt namechecking the hotel there she grew up in, and it reminded me of the pleasure of off-topic quilting.

As a kid I had a blanket on which I embroidered ‘jokes’ – sadly I now forget what the jokes were, and I think the whole thing got dismantled or binned. But this picture reminded me that a big needle and some wool is an underrated form of self-expression for the home.