I spent my time yesterday making black and white patches for the top edge of Remember 2021 …
and then finished the last patch of January to end at the same point as the last black patch …
I was surprised to find (although really, was I truly surprised?) that this new cloth will be virtually the same size as Remember2016, even though both cloths were begun by making a month’s worth of randomly sized patches …
So it was fun to make a patch by counting threads to recall yesterday’s stitching …
although not too too precisely lest I slip back into old habits 😉
I first encountered the concept of monkey mind in Natalie Goldberg’s book Writing down the bones. There I instantly recognized my habit of constantly jumping from one thing to another.
Which brings me to how the last patch in January came about.
I ended the month in the closing pages of Ingrid Fetel Lee’s Joyful, which I first read about over at Hazel’s Handstories.
The last chapter mentioned artist Eva Zeisel and something about the Chrysler Building in New York, which reminded me of Fiona’s recent post at Paper Ponderings.
So I did a Google image searches on the Chrysler …
and Eva Zeisel …
which reminded me I was going to do a patch of Jackson’s watercolor fish …
So I zoomed in and fished around for inspiration …
Which reminded me that I had some painted cloth gifted by Joanne, which went really well with another bit of gifted cloth dyed by Tina.
So I stitched together three pieces of watercolory yellow, orange and pink with two strands of black DMC floss as a nod to J’s crayon lines.
And finally, left the right side of the patch open-ended …
because I remembered that I need to finish the black and white check border to determine what length the January strip of patches needs to be.
Today’s patch title is a double entendre as the scale is definitely off compared to this map of Stagecoach Park …
but the double patch also relates to stretching our legs along the trails on Friday and Saturday.
The weather was perfect, breezy and in the 60s both days. The only disappointment was the barbed wire fencing that kept us from getting a view of Onion Creek, but we could hardly complain.
Process notes: the idea of a double patch came from the natural tree line that runs diagonally through the park. And I had a ready-made pairing that I cut off the right side of thisMoon Myth project scrap …
although now that I look at it, those two strips on the left might have been a better choice color-wise. Hmmm.
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