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.