slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: Slow cloth
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I’ve needed to go to the lake since mid June. It’s the place I am drawn to when my heart needs healing. Usually I need a few days by myself, but Sandy knows to give me my space when we are there. With Diego’s short life prognosis and Pablocito suddenly being the only mammal at…
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^Today’s stitch meditation Here’s another path I followed away from my funk into creative mode. This time of year a lot of artists do some kind of 100 day “challenge.” I’ve participated in one of these challenges once before but it was for any kind of artistic effort and I was circling the hole of…
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Hello friends! I am back from a rejuvenating six days (including travel) at John C. Campbell Folk School, where I finally snagged a spot in a class I’ve wanted to take for a long, long time – “Wrapping Wild: Making Animals Out of Recycled Materials,” taught by the amazing Bryant Holsenbeck. First, the photos of…
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The latest stitchery: I’m really enjoying stitching in this section. This piece has changed in my mind from purely abstract to ruminations about paths, choices, obstacles, and flow. What we do to stitch the fragments of our lives together while attempting to create balance. Sometimes you can, sometimes there is too much disruption in the…
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The ice was lovely this morning because it wasn’t dangerous. I am home from work, where I am in survival mode these days, trying very hard not to snap about the same issues that come up every semester but about which I have to push for answers that nobody agrees on every semester. Time for…
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What are you supposed to do on Boxing Day again? Knock out your family and friends? Just so you know, I did get some creative stuff done yesterday. The photo of progress on my tapestry refused to turn out properly, so that is a sign that it does not want any more detail photos until…
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Last night I visited my friend Lisa along with a couple of other cool women for our monthly “craftivist” get-together and we took a really good look at the crazy quilt Lisa has been making for her daughter for quite a few years now. It includes scraps of her clothing. The embroidery is stunning, and…
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Suddenly I feel like Miss Piggy today. Couldn’t tell you why. A lot of things have happened since I last posted. I stopped paying to have my blog ad-free and the ads are pretty disgusting, so I may break down and upgrade to a paid account. I hate to do it, because between that and…
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Pretty much done. If you look closely you can see that the first panel I quilted had more quilting, then the second one less as my tension problems mounted on my sewing machine, and then the third panel I gave up other than sewing around the edges. I figure as I feel like it I…
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Photo from last Sunday It’s almost noon. There is still snow on the ground, whittled away by a steady light rain over the last 24 hours. Everything is soggy and muddy because there is nowhere for the water to go. I ended up with two mandatory snow days, for which I can either take vacation…
slowly she turned 