Always a short month, but this year it seems shorter than usual. I’m ending this month with an anniversary, as today is a year since we moved in to our current home.
It’s taken a while for it to feel like home, but it does now and I’m looking forward to seeing our new garden grow a bit more this year. The seeds and ideas that we plant can take a while to yield visible results, and what starts as a scrap or fragment becomes part of something much bigger once it starts to grow. It all happens in its own time.
I’ve enjoyed using up scraps and odd ends this month.
Running stitch, whipped running stitch, and couching are probably still my favourites. I like lines. Time lines, perhaps.
Mostly it’s mark-making with needle and thread.
There is a lovely darn on the edge of this linen, presumably made many years ago. I’m guessing this linen was probably hand-woven on a home loom because the width is much narrower than a machine-made sheet would be, and the selvedge that you can see beside the darn had originally been in the centre of the sheet where two widths had been joined. Someone, long ago and in a different home, carefully mended this cloth for the future, and their future is my present. Time does stand still sometimes.
Holding time in stitches, weaving between past and future.
The long view:
And the other side:
Onward to March. Marching onward. See what I did there.
Have a lovely weekend.
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I’m finding the months are telescoping more than usual at the moment. I’m panicking because June is just around the corner, and confused because it isn’t yet March.. But it’s lovely to see your daily stitching bringing the days into order.
You’re right, it will be June before we know it… Bringing the days into order feels a bit like herding cats at the moment
The story of February, or at least the story of your February! I hope that you month has been as colourful and interesting as your stitched journal Karen. This shows them all whether they are formal and organised or casual and unconnected. I look forward to seeing your March, as it can be one of my favourite months 😊
thanks so much, Mags. February is so short and full it feels like it’s over before it’s begun. Hopefully there will be a little breathing space in March.
Wishing you well as we all contemplate March(ing onward). You have inspired me to explore whipped running stitch further, something I had meant to do in February oops 🙂
wishing you a happy March too – enjoy your whipped running stitch 🙂
A lovely month… I will stitch my final “day” later this afternoon. And yes, Onward to March! (and hopefully some spring!!)
thanks Kat, we started the day with a frozen pond but it’s been a glorious spring day here. Definitely nice to see some sunshine.
Cute little house embroidery!
my dream house 🙂
Karen, your work is beautiful. Always lovely to read your newsletters and she your amazing stitching.
thanks so much Yolanda
I am not sure why, but I find myself tearing up at this post. Perhaps it is the lovely ordinariness of it: a garden waiting to be nurtured, a year in a home that feels like home, a continuation of a lovely practice of marking the progression of days, the progressions of sitting for a few moments with a needle in hand. the feeling of calm.
it is a lovely little portalway into a lovely place.
thank you.
❤️
I don’t really want to reply with more words, Em, your words were so heartfelt. Thank you ❤️
I love your play on words. I love how you play with your needle. It’s all so soothing & lovely❣️
thanks so much Linda. A little self-soothing after a busy week I think 🙂