The stitch meditations I've started are using scraps
from discharged fabric that I used for a small art quilt years ago.
The idea of the stitch meditation is to spend 15 minutes total, from pulling the fabrics and threads to the actual stitching, but I usually find myself enjoying the stitching and continuing for up to 30 minutes if I feel like it. These are all on 3 x 3" squares, but I've cut a 2 1/2 inch square backing for the next one.
I have two more, but haven't taken pics of them. I skipped doing a stitch meditation yesterday, because I was busy making envelopes and postcards, but I did stitch on a small piece that will take a long time because I plan to cover almost the entire thing with stitching. Still a meditation, though.
Snail Mail
Outgoing last week
Yesterday, I made two envelopes and 8 postcards after playing most of the day with tiny collages and ideas for April's National Letter Writing Month and Write-on. I'll use poetry again as a recurrent theme, but yesterday, I made some with song lyrics. Well, I consider Paul Simon a poet. :)
Reading
Currently reading The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan and Dreyer's English by Benjamin Dreyer.
Finished The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson yesterday. A bittersweet coming-of-age story that was a surprise in many ways. By bittersweet, I mean that no childhood is perfect or free from stress and not all children are going to fit flawlessly into their worlds.
Garden
Some lazy and intermittent weeding when I sat outside. The Japanese maples are leafing out, and I'm so impressed each day with what they accomplish. Two are ahead of the game, but the other three are trying hard. Spring always seems so sudden, a bud one day, a leaf the next, then more and more.
:) Smile
A pleasantly productive few days.. !
ReplyDeleteIt has been a productive few days. I love an excuse to play!
DeleteI love your stitch meditations. And, at the end of the day, you can feel a sense of accomplishment.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Chip. I'm not sure about the "rules" for the stitch meditations, but I like that deciding to spend 15 minutes a day leads to longer stitching times. If I can spend 15 minutes quietly stitching my imagination seems revitalized in other areas as well. :)
DeleteYour stitching is glorious! I love the colors-love white on white too. And the cartoon! It makes me feel so good to know I am not the only one who has done those very things!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Debra! And probably most of us can identify with the cartoon. :)
DeleteHmmm, I believe I share the "cartoon" character's hobbies with a few more variations, e.g., acquiring more books than I can ever read. The stitch meditation squares are interesting, as is the concept. They remind me of Hippie Flags a friend of mine bought to decorate her garden (each panel was much bigger than the meditation ones of course; these were modeled after Buddhist prayer flags). She said a squirrel is tearing them up, he gathers the flags that have sequins and other embellishments on them into a bunch and sharpens his teeth on them! She's watched him do it. Continue to enjoy the spring, Jenny, and thanks for sharing your creative endeavors with us!
ReplyDeleteOh, yes, the adding of books to my TBR list, knowing there will never be enough time. I made prayer flags for the garden one year, but the weather was the culprit over time instead of squirrels. I wouldn't have minded a magpie or crow making off with shiny bits, but using them to sharpen squirrel teeth would be another matter!
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