Somewhere last year I lost my way. And I found it again. But before I found it, I let the blog derail. Which made me disappear for the last 6 months or so without realizing it. I know prevailing wisdom says I shouldn’t even acknowledge that disruption. But that’s not how I roll… My focus… Continue Reading
A Quick Note about comments
ETA (Comments are back on) And I’m really behind on posting! Due to a security issue with WordPress, I’ve had to turn commenting off at the one day mark. This is annoying, because recently some of our best conversations have been on older posts. Hopefully they’ll get it fixed soon! If you miss the… Continue Reading
At Odds with Myself…
I’ve been at odds with myself recently, which keeps me from stitching, and it keeps me from posting here. I’m in a dry spell on the stitching front, and have been playing MUCH more with paint and mixed media (in fact, today I accidentally painted my braid with black acrylic… <sigh> it could at least… Continue Reading
We are all Artists
I’ve been stitching recently. Not cross stitching, though I’ve been doing some of that, too. But I’ve been inspired by a couple images I found on Pinterest of people with gorgeous, colorful work that was based on doodles. I’ve also been remembering that I’m an artist. So. For this piece, I drew directly onto the… Continue Reading
Cross Stitch as Art
I am currently in the throes of putting together a proposal for a beginning crazy quilting class and decluttering my studio (removing everything that doesn’t have to do with painting, stitching or the design business. Which means that I’m rather slow on the writing, and videotaping has to wait until there is space TO videotape!… Continue Reading