I've grown old trying to get this blog started. I wish I could say I had really good reasons for this, but it's about technological ineptitude, going almost back to communication with two tin cans and a string---the good old days.
I do all my work by hand. This piece is done entirely with embroidery chain and stem stitches. I start with a "stick" figure sketch on plain muslin. I then begin to stitch, curving and meandering, changing colors and threads and directions as I go. My "plan" evolves as I sew, sometimes ending up as I had pictured, sometimes entirely different. This piece uses my love of trees physically and metaphorically, teaching us about life and love.
Howdy there fellow fiber gal. Glad you made it to the present computer age.
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