In this idiosyncratic upland realm, the busy roads and patchwork plains below felt much further away than they were.
The views from the top of Chase End Hill were amazing: three counties spread out below, a patchwork of wild daffodils, fields, woods, blossom, gorse and lakes shining in the distance.
At the top of the first mighty hill, I caught a glint of Lyme Bay and the Jurassic Coast and, below, the patchwork fields of Marshwood Vale – a place described by Sir Frederick Treves as: "A somewhat sullen hollow, shunned by man, for there is hardly a habitation in it".
Every time I touch down at Manchester Airport, I'm struck by the abundance of white rectangles painted on to patchwork grass fields below.
With a contrasting colour of thread (I used red), stitch a straight line down either side of the long seam above and below your patchwork strip (top and bottom).
The new Fragments collection of patchwork carpets, like the one below, is a happy solution.
The pirates looked like little toy people as they moved about on the wooden deck suspended below the canvas patchwork balloon.
"A place that I've come to love, which I did not expect until this campaign, is Texas," he said in an interview the other day aboard his campaign plane, a patchwork of the countryside passing below him.
Husbands and children busied themselves below on the patchwork of plastic tarps, filling brightly coloured crates and buckets.
But the more memorable collections -- John Galliano for Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, Viktor & Rolf, Alexander McQueen, Junya Watanabe -- were replete with bustles, colossal picture hats, shredded garments with waistbands slung below the buttocks, with patchwork clothes, glitter makeup and a theatricality so outlandish that it sent conservatives reaching for the smelling salts.
