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oh my goodness. been stitching a lot with words lately - not just from desire, either. found myself stranded without thread, of all things. almost took some clothing apart yesterday in my withdrawal mania. but now, now i’m reunited with threads and ready to dive back into the world of stitching with/on cloth. been shopping [...]

today, on mother’s day eve, i took refuge in the familiar land of bookmaking and accomplishment, creating a journal to accompany autoquiltography one. a container of irregular, asymmetrical pages

wrapped in a placemat because table linens are the stuff of which all of my autoquiltography pieces are made

lined in fabric that conjures images of gold [...]

i spent earth day collecting red clay from spots of earth where i grew up. the house my mom and dad built where i spent my baby days - the H can still be seen in the chimney. red dirt from the land where my doting grandparent’s house once stood. red clay from the yard [...]

monday past: while continuing work on operation clear-out, happened upon the only surviving piece of clothing i wore as a baby: a teensy little corduroy jacket. washed it, dried it, hung it up as delightful reminder that i was ever once that small and reliant.

tuesday past: obeying wake up thought to check decorative stitching on [...]

won’t be long now. autoquiltography one is almost finished:

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couldn’t take it any more, so ripped out all stitching on one plate at my dinner party.

doesn’t look like very much, does it? was surprised at how long it took me to rip everything out - not as long as it took to put it in not once but twice, of course. how many [...]

reworked cup in the few minutes available tonight - the cup on the old-back-now-front/top side. added beaded saucer since granddaddy’s pet grandchild project was teaching us to sip coffee-flavored milk from a saucer. (i never acquired the taste for coffee. to this day, i don’t own a coffee pot.)
leaving steam as is cause i like [...]

3 days of stitching stars - count them THREE days - of stitching over previous messy stitching, ripping and snipping out stitching then just now my boy and i decide we like the backside better.
sigh.
this is a plate in my dinner party, the one for my granddaddy ballard. though the star resembles a starfish, on [...]

yesterday when i took a break in stitching on autoquiltography one, i trimmed the excess fabric and fray. everything looked nice, neat, orderly.
today, after 2 hours of stitching, it appears i need to shave my legs (again).

if only this was something i could market to the hair club.
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well, i think there’s some improvement in my edging stitching. maybe not marked but definitely some. worked on it tonight during rehearsal for into the woods, and i think it’s finally all coming back to me. (i have 16 words - not lines but words - in tonight’s rehearsal page span, so there was plenty [...]

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