Now that it's done, I'm going to work on the stitching for Jackie du Plessis' Trianon and Tricia Nguyen's Eve in the Garden of Eden on the week-ends for awhile. Actually, I did pull Eve out of her pillowcase Thursday night and realized my life would be much easier if I basted the outlines for the front, spine, and back before I went any further. That pretty much took up my stitching time for that evening. Now I can get back to stitching the designs and experimenting with the threads on that piece.
A friend once asked how I could reconcile stitching some of the glitzy canvases I do with samplers and smalls.
The flippant answer is that it all involves a threaded needle.
It's actually more than that. I think they appeal to different parts of my stitching life. The canvas pieces tend to involve different techniques and materials from the samplers I love to stitch. Those are usually created with silk and linen only. I've always loved toys--the smalls appeal to that desire to play with little things. And then there are the over-the-top designs and stitches of the 17th century projects . . . which, when you stop to think, have as much of the glitz as the contemporary pieces do. Hmmmmmmm . . .
Basically, it does boil down to a threaded needle. Let's just leave it at that and forget analyzing it.
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