Tangled Stitch

OK I'm sure you're wondering what the heck is this. It is the Leap. Thursday I went to Inspire Me Thursday and saw that the topic was Leap and I was frankly not inspired until about 1:00 in the morning last night. All of a sudden the Leap came to me. Now I know it doesn't look like much at the moment but once my needles and embroidery thread get done with it, it will be lovely(I'm optimistic again). When I was in the coop my favorite monthly theme was Artist at Work, in which we would start a project, work on it while we were there and leave our work unfinished for people to look at. I found the whole experience very centering(since I was embroidering) and very interesting. So to put one of my favorite coop experiences together with my work, I am taking a leap and I will be posting updates of the piece once or twice a week until it's finished. Perhaps it will give some insight to my work and some thought processes of my needles. My needles seem to have a lif...

The topic this week on Inspire Me Thursday is my comfort zone. My comfort zone inspires me so I think this is a good topic. As you can see I am most comfortable with a needle in my hand. I end up at my center when I am embroidering(and to add the fun some beading). I enjoy and have fun knitting(with more beading) and I still can be completely inspired while crocheting with thread while listening to Andrea Bocelli. My comfort zone has literally saved my life. I've already mentioned my childhood ad nauseum so I'll pretty much skip it but whenever I needed soothing or felt left out or any of the other dramas a young person goes through my needles were always there. Be it afghans after my mother passed away, or afghans while I was waiting to hear about the first house we put a bid on, or a cross-stitched sampler while waiting for my son to be born, or the crocheted christening dress I made while my dad was in the coma. My needlework has always comforted me. When I was a ki...

This post is inspired by Inspired Me Thursday and the pillow in the entry below. There is no official topic this week for Inspired Me Thursday so I picked Love. Love, what is it really? Butterflies in the belly, rubbing your Charlie's belly, worrying about your husbands belly or making sure there is enough food in your son's belly. Does love make you dizzy or do people love you in spite of the fact that you are dizzy? Do you love the one you are with or do you love the ones that you miss? It's all of the above and more. We can love people, we can love our work, we can love other people's work, we can love our laptops. We can love everything, so in honor of Inspire Me Thursday love everyone and everything that makes you feel alive and never look back in regret. If it doesn't fit into any of the categories of love or makes you feel something other then love. Walk away and find your bliss. Love is knowing that life is too short and that we shouldn't be wastin...

I found the best way to handle the Christmas season is to work through it. To use the gifts and the love that God has given me for my work and let it help me through this time. I realized just how lucky I am to have so much fortune in my life. I have a wonderful husband and a fabulous son, my friends and I have my work. The colors, the textures, the tangled threads that become something else, the flash of inspiration that comes out of nowhere. The last couple of days I have had several gifts of inspiration. Yesterday I finished knitting the purse I have been making. The handle is being blocked as we speak since the pattern made it curly. I've beaded it and will put the lining in and then I will share it. Last night I had an inspiration for a new project which I will throw myself into after I finish my turtle bag, although I think I will start it today or tomorrow and do a little bit every day. Sometimes if I don't act on an inspiration it falls by the waste side. It wi...

I am inspired by InspireMeThursday. The subject is ice, so therefore I need to be inspired. Ice is wonderful in a cocktail. Ice is a wonderful reason to stay home and embroider or knit. Ice is beautiful when it hangs off my gutter or during an ice storm when it just begins to hang off the trees. Ice makes me laugh when my dog takes for me an impromptu ski lesson down my front lawn. It also makes me laugh when I'm backing out of my driveway and I stop just in time to miss the basketball hoop. Ice makes me happy when it melts on a freezing cold day just from the sun. Most of all ice makes me think of all the warm things that make the ice bearable.