Quickie

June 12, 2024 ~ Liz A ~ 13 Comments

Jude posted about a new way of stitching in her Forever Zone that inspired me to try it on some lettering, seen here front and back …

So yes, I’m tempted to try some more.

Close up

October 7, 2020 ~ Liz A ~ 22 Comments

I chose to remain nearsighted when I signed up for cataract surgery. Having been that way since I was eight years old, I couldn’t imagine giving it up.

So the past week of close stitching has been a poignant meditation on the lives of Ruth Bader Ginsburg …

and Michelle Slater …

It’s not quite right to call such work joy-full, even as much as I marveled at my ability to see clearly again, so I’ll leave it at heart-felt. Likewise, I don’t think they are necessarily “done” nor do I know what final form they might take.

It was enough to want to create them and be able to.

“Make your own bible”

May 31, 2020May 31, 2020 ~ Liz A ~ 16 Comments

Always I am learning from Kindred Spirits. First reading about tonglen on Windthread, not understanding and so finding my way to learning more …

Then reading a quote by Gregory Orr on Bee Creative and finding my way from there to a podcast On Being. And those of you who know me, will understand when I say it is hard for me to comprehend the spoken word, and yet I listened not once, but twice.

I heard words that touched my heart and stitched them.

“Turn me into song …