slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: fiber art
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The progress on this is slow, but I’m pleased with it. There is still a lot of stitching to do.
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My right hand has feeling in it again, after a long night of waking up with it numb. If you’ve never experienced this, you might think that having a limb go to sleep while you are asleep would not disrupt your sleep, right? I mean, that seems logical. Wearing my wrist brace helps a lot…
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It has been a stressful week, but for the most part it has been good stress. I am psyched up and excited about the future. I haven’t had a panic attack, though, which is very encouraging since I have been super-wired and sleep-deprived because of hormones all week. In fact, I haven’t had a panic…
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Looking at the computer hurts my head. Typing on the computer hurts my hands. But weaving this random weave basket from the Virginia creeper vines in the Back Forty was a very pleasant activity yesterday! I’ll finish another that I started in a few minutes.
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Background finished. Maybe looking at this will jumpstart me to begin the applique on the cardoon flower, stalk, and stems, which is my next step. Then I’ll begin stitching the “thistle” part. Right now, I’m going home at night and reading about art and quilting and embroidery instead of doing it. But it’s all good.…
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Step 2 – stitched the outline of the design, stitched the layers down with random stitches, and whipped stitch around the edges.
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Finally finished! Now the trick is to get it mounted and framed and displayed. I’m good at making stuff and then I lose the motivation to do anything with it once it’s made. This design came from a photograph that I took of a centerpiece at Spannocchia, near Siena, Italy.
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Miss Jazz is hanging out on Sandy’s lap as usual… Theo and I are playing with the camera. I have not changed out of my pajamas or brushed my hair today. I made my bread dough in the bread machine and let it rise, shaped it, and baked it in the oven. I’ll make cauliflower…
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I wonder if anybody in this country is happy with our government right now. It seems to me that the Republicans have the ethics of hyenas and the Democrats have the ethics of jellyfish. I have finally gotten so fed up with politics that I am finally doing what I have threatened to do for…
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They’re starting to look like oranges, aren’t they? Ha! That’s cool, I don’t care. I’m learning as I go. The bottom lemon on the left was the first one I finished, and I learned that I should created bigger blocks of color instead of sprinkling a dozen different colors in order to get the effect…
slowly she turned 