Balancing curves
You might recall the patchwork I started last month, using my proposed 2024 stitch journal template to piece together an aerial map of fields: I got so far with it and then hit a slight problem: having...
View Article2024 daily stitching template
It’s early to be thinking about next year, but I’m launching my 2024 daily stitching template now for a couple of reasons. Firstly, we have accepted an unexpectedly prompt offer on our house, so it...
View ArticlePiecing
Not quite a square yard – it’s about 32″ x 34″, and all pieced together now. Some people think English paper piecing is too fiddly and takes too long, but I find it fairly quick and very enjoyable. I’m...
View ArticleGreen
Probably my favourite colour, which is just as well because this is all very green indeed. Curiously, my camera doesn’t seem to like it and refuses to accurately render the colours. I can only say it’s...
View ArticleOctober
Another month; 31 daily leaves taking us to the beginning of winter. I really enjoyed this one. My template just has plain leaf shapes but you can adjust and adapt the outlines as much as you want to....
View ArticleProgress but slow
In the UK when you buy a house, it’s all very exciting at first but then there are weeks and weeks where nothing happens. The buyer’s and seller’s solicitors are all busy doing land searches, drawing...
View ArticleJoining
You may recall this sample made as an example of what might happen with the 2024 stitch journal map and this failed sample of the patchwork version: Two orphan samples, both alike in dignity, but –...
View ArticleNovember
Thirty days, thirty boxes, one box a day. Counting the days, observing the minutes, watching time as it hurtles past. As always, I’ve only used very simple embroidery stitches – mostly variations on...
View Article2024: Day One
Happy New Year. One day ends and a new one begins in the unbroken chain of time that makes up our life. It really doesn’t matter what day you begin this kind of practice; all the days join up...
View ArticleJanuary
The entire month has passed in a blur of thread winding, dyeing, sorting and labelling, a task that is still very much ongoing. But daily stitching counts the days and maps the path, creating lines of...
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