The last day of May and another monthly block complete on this year’s stitch journal, marking time and witnessing the passage of days.
May always feels like quite a long month to me but they all fly by in the end.
No real plan, as always. Just threading a needle and placing a few stitches every day. Watching what happens.
Some of the stitches end up looking like footprints. Which is just what they are, really. Steps along tracks and paths that lead somewhere.
People often ask about the curly/loopy stitching around the edge of some of the blocks. It’s just silk boucle yarn couched down with a fine thread. Nice effect with very little effort.
I’m easing into a more summery palette for this middle section of the year.
As usual, I don’t always like every single block. It doesn’t matter. Each block only functions as a witness; it doesn’t have to be beautiful. We can’t undo the moments or go back in time and change the past, which is why I don’t ever unpick the stitches I don’t like. It is what it is, we acknowledge its faults, and we move on. As soon as each stitch is completed, it becomes part of the past and therefore can’t be altered. It can be very therapeutic to accept the imperfections.
The other side always interests me. In some cases I prefer it.
June is waiting for me to meet her tomorrow.
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Enjoyed seeing your lovely embroidery this morning 💐🦋🐝X
thanks so much 😊
“Each block only functions as a witness; it doesn’t have to be beautiful.” I love this so much. (Btw I do think it’s beautiful though. 🙂)
a note to self, as much as anything – but thank you 😊
agree, this is such a beautiful statement
Very nice. Great colors
thanks so much
Inspiration 🙂
😊 thanks so much
Happy June … may the extended hours of light be a joy!
And always, always, thank you for a glimpse at the other side
I often like the other side more than the front 😄 a happy June to you too
It is beautiful, but isn’t it difficult to stitch on such a big piece of cotton/linen? To hold that in your hand?
thanks Laura – no, it’s not difficult at all. I usually stitch at a table with most of the cloth supported on the surface so I’m only holding the bit I’m working on. It would be difficult to manage if it were not on a table.
“It can be very therapeutic to accept the imperfections.” If only I can learn that lesson. Lovely stitching, as always.
thanks so much Stephanie. It’s a hard one but it’s true.
Yes, sometimes beauty isn’t the point. It’s an important distinction to make, especially when art is so often associated with beauty, or comfort in affliction. Both crucial to life, but it can be other things as well..
exactly. Nice when it turns out to be lovely by accident though – just like life, I guess…
Your work always impresses me! You are one of the most perfect stitchers I’ve seen (as mentioned to you before😂)when you started posting here again, the post was screened up and took ages to get stuff from you, etc did it ever straighten itself out?
thanks so much Helen. I’m not sure about whether anything straightened itself out – do you mean blog posts weren’t loading…?
No the snail mail wasn’t working very well so I never ordered any scraps or thread etc from you well, anything you had available for sale.
ah, ok, I understand. Overseas post can take a while – usually a week or two for the US and three weeks of more for Canada or Australia. I send parcels via international tracked so you can check its whereabouts as it makes its way to you.
Occasionally the customs office will randomly open and check a parcel but obviously I have no control over that.