The knowledge that surrounds us
I was stitching this frame together and my mind was turning over phrases that could be its name. I started with obsessively thinking “between the ocean and the deep blue sea.” That became the...
Category: Making
Twos and threes
More squares. Two and three inch. Most of the fabrics below came from Deb Lacativa’s big bag of scraps. I like the rainbow colored mix of the middle nine square. The colors below seem...
Patch math
I’m up to 50 one-inch squares. Four eights (“frames” in Jude’s language) and two nines. I like how they look photographed on this brick red coffee table that we kept from Sam’s parents’ home....
More tinies
These inch-square puzzle pieces are addictive. They take only a few stitches to make, so it’s easy to say “Just one more!” I might be ready to stitch them into nine patches as arranged....
Small cloth
Jude Hill’s second part of Patchwork in Perspective has started! I started stitching some inch-square patches using Jude Hill’s invisible baste stitch. Not so invisible in some cases. And I need more practice (patience?)...
The pastel talisman
My friend suggested I create a white talisman book. She really liked the purity of the white papers with the white thread and white scraps, monochromatic, colorfree. I just couldn’t do it though. I’m...
Patches and threads
Detail of an intersection of patches. I added a beige strip to the left side of my stitched piece to give the figure there more breathing room. I had to attach some patches to...