I found the crow in my holiday stocking and he sits with me each time I work on my stitch book. I brew tea, too, and rotate favorite mugs.
Here’s the first spread of pages, made with homegrown, and hand dyed fabrics, some ikat scraps and a feather. The appliqué bird is a scrap from a blouse my Mumsie made for me to take to college a billion years ago.
I so often think of James Taylor’s “and the Berkshire’s looked dreamlike on account of that frosting” …
Background fabric dyed with acorns from our bit of earth. “Buttons” made of birchbark.
Look at that raven!
I took Miss Perfectionism and Mr. Sewing Police outside and closed the door on them. I needed to get them out of the house so that I could have plenty of freedom to play in my studio without self-judgement. I’m not taking stitches out or making corrections, I’m just letting the threads take me on a slow journey to see where I end up.
Setting aside time every day to work on my stitch book has become an anchor in my days. I often spend more than the allotted 15 minutes a day and that’s OK with me.
TQOE*, my friend Cathleen, is working on a book in Connecticut and her theme is “conversations”. I love the idea of naming a theme for a book.
As January slides into February this week, I wonder what you have been up to, dearest friends. Drop a comment below or send me an email. Let me know how you are.
Sending hope and light from the Green Mountain State. xo
*The Queen of Everything