I hope you’re not reading this from beneath a ten foot snow drift – my other half keeps referring to the weather as ‘a cold snap’ and I keep reminding him, that this weather has been consistently atrocious since November, and snap it certainly isn’t.
But in other news…
Slow progress is being made on the – shall we call it flower?
I have a fairly clear idea of how the flower is going to develop – I’ve put a couple of baskets of yarns together and I keep looking at them, imagining where I’m going to put them all – so to contrast with the couching of the flower, the outer sections are rather more restrained.
The recycled sari silk is delightful to work with. The thickness varies quite widely, and some sections are decidedly fluffy, so stitching it in becomes experimental – I like the feeling that the yarns are deciding the texture of the piece for themselves – putting the stitches in, feels almost passive.
Just before the weekend snow, I nipped outside and took pictures of the few brave buds to have risked showing their faces this winter…
I’m wondering if I was getting subliminal messages about the colours – notice any similarities between the flowers and the flower?
Happy stitching – stay warm.
Dreaming In Stitches 