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For those of you who have followed for a while you know that I\u2019m am a wandering artist. Trying this technique and then that teaching what I learn along the way. Sometimes I lament that I\u2019m not a Monet type, you know, painting my metaphorical lily pond every day. But I\u2019m really more of a Picasso (not the boorish, misogynist part), just when my audience knows what they like about my work I change it. Lately I\u2019ve been doing more stitch in my mixed media work, you\u2019ve seen that in my most recent posts. When I first started art quilting, I was all about the machine stitch\u2026. don\u2019t slow me down just get it done. But increasingly I\u2019ve been drawn back to hand stitch. A participant in a workshop gave me some feedback that having a hand stitch option for a workshop would be attractive to some people, so I set about making some examples to satisfy that request. What I didn\u2019t realize at the time was that it would be also attractive to me, that in sitting down with needle and thread in a comfy chair with a podcast or music or friends that I would find a quiet beauty in the doing. Something different than the feeling of accomplishment at finishing quickly\u2026. sometimes in my life I have measured my success by how quickly and efficiently I could complete a piece of work or art to my satisfaction. The act of slow stitching does not check off that box. I let my stitches be improvisational and move where they want to go, sometimes sparse and sometimes dense, complicated or simple; each section of the piece tells me what it needs. Adding this leisure and slowness to my work has added a richness, a texture and a fullness that was not achieved by the machine and by speed. The hand at work is evident, the art was clearly held, nurtured into existence.<\/p>\n\n
I hope you can find your leisure in the doing. Perhaps its baking something special to bring to a friend\u2019s house or maybe taking time to prune the roses in your yard of faded blooms, maybe even slowing down your power walk to hear the birds and watch the breeze sway in the trees.<\/p>\n
Whatever it is be well, take care.<\/p>\n
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PS. I’m teaching a workshop about this Fabric Cut out technique in October – contact me if you want more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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