The advice to “take one stitch at a time” is comparable to the advice to “take one step at a time,” but when you’re stitching a little scene with houses, windows, and trees, other metaphors spring to mind.
Such as: oh look, I’ve just stitched a shelter into place. Before, it was merely pinned to the surface, but now it is secure.
A secure shelter.
Oh look! I’m connecting the foreground to the background, which is to say, the land to the sky. Integration. The power in that.
My oh my! I’m flying with my needle through the sky! There will be a place for the moon tonight, the moon who is now and always has been, my friend.
Dee~ Lovely writing…and I’m thinking that it is good to have the moon as a friend.
The close up photo pairs so well with your words. The bumps and being held together with a thin pin…light falling in different ways on varied spaces…a thin sliver invites one to crawl in for comfort or hiding. So much life in this photo. 🙂
I’ve often thought about how quilting is inherently about securing layers together. I think this is something Jude talked about years ago.
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Love “your” houses always ! Ohhh beautiful background for this one too !
I love that blue tree fabric!
Your art always seems very “alive” to me. I think of the moon as a friend, too. One of the very few things (also the sun) that has remained constant my whole life.
Live long enough and we see lots of things come and go, don’t we?
Ohhhh have ALWAYS in all ways loved your houses. The background fabric on this one could not be more perfect. Im happy to say we have blue skies here today.
With the additional hour of daylight too!