I’ve been writing this post in my head for days. Art-a-Whirl weekend went well. I sold a few things, picked up a few more names on my email list via a give-away sign-up, and connected with new and old friends. The weekend was gorgeous, weather-wise — that week in these parts when crabapple trees, lilacs and tulips show off their blooms simultaneously. Thanks to the slow spring — until the heat wave this week — the spring blooms have had a long run. I’ve felt joyful and thankful all week long, and then stumbled across an embroidery I did when I was 13 years old of e.e. cummings’ well-known poem. It has stayed with me all these years, and hung on my son’s bedroom wall when he was a youngster. You can see how much the fabric has faded. What if I dye it a darker blue …
Crab Apple Branch in front yard
embroidery of e. e. cummings poem
Lester following his bliss
Glad to hear you had a lovely weekend, was wondering how your art form is received in the States…
Lester is a beauty! I want to reach in and rub his tummy! lol
A late spring has brought you not only beautiful blossoms but beautiful memories too!
Very nice embroidery! I wish I hadn’t left it until I was 44 to learn!
I hope your week continued in happy and optimistic mood. It’s such a great time of the year.
three wonderful things. love ee cummings and your embroidery.
Thanks for the visits, dear readers. I really only learned 3 stitches or so, trying them out on this little piece. My sister, as I recall, owned a book called 100 embroidery stitches (or was it 50)? If any of you embroiderers can recommend a good book with just the basics, because I like the basic stitches best, please let me know! When I was 16, after reading the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings trilogy (sitting in living room with snow out the front windows in my dad’s favorite chair), I embroidered the poem from Hobbit that starts, “I sit beside the fire and think….”, on a deep turquoise piece of cotton. Lots of practice with the chain stitch over that 3 year period! I also still have that one. Both in my head and in my fabric trunk!
hi Kit!!! my mom mailed me a packet of magazines and included your katazome snippets….YOU SENT ME FISH!!!!!!! thank you so much….. i love all three snippets but the fish hold a special place in my heart. thanks so much… (she also sent me the premier edition of ART QUILTING STUDIO magazine, it looks fabulous and I can’t wait to read it!!!)
I love your embroidery too…. i am just now trying to sew a weed vine on one of my goddesses….. playing as i go…
thanks so much (for the snippets)!!!! i will let you know where they end up!!
jan
wow! so pretty… very lovely embroidery
I think it is so special that you still have the poem done in embroidery from your youth! I am so sentimental that way. Beautiful flowers, adorable cat.
Hi Jan — glad you like them! I do see you are a fish person. Happy stitching!
thank you – and thanks for visiting!