I have been between projects (other than baby, house-hunting and packing) for the last several months. I finally realized that the awful empty feeling that I had been having was at least partly due to not allowing myself a creative outlet. I had finished all of the Christmas projects and not had the energy in the early stages of pregnancy to start something new. Once I did, there was so much other stuff going on that I didn't have the time for the slow development of an idea that I usually need in order to get something started. So I decided to just take a scrap of muslin and the leftover threads in my needlebook and just try out some stitches. It didn't have to be pretty. It didn't have to have a recipient or a purpose other than just to remind myself how to do them and break back into creating. It was so freeing to just put some threads into the fabric and not feel any anxiety about how it was going to turn out.
Of course, once I got about halfway done, a design did start to emerge that necessarily introduced some boundaries to what I could represent with those stitches. But by that point, it didn't matter anymore.
The edges of the fabric are just outside the edges of the photo so using it for anything would be a challenge. I'm thinking that a very carefully hand stitched border from some of the leftover golden silk from my flower girls dresses would frame it nicely though.
3 comments:
Beautiful! You are such an artist. Glad you are finding time for yourself! Where are you moving? Are you staying in the Shoreline area?
I don't remember how I got distracted from telling you this last Friday, 'Nelle, but I loved the stitches when you showed this to me - especially the bird house, for some reason. Oh! and the ferns, too. Lovely! :-)
No news about where we are moving to yet. Still hunting vigorously though. We are hoping to be between here and Mill Creek where Jonathan works. Sorry no eastside for us!
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