first sightings

It's lighter longer and the first of the daffodils are up.

rain and change

It's a rainy day this bonus day in February. 

Word verification continues to be an issue. Removing the requirement from my blog has resulted in some dubious email but seems to be manageable so far.

These two are good helpers.

another place

Several hours of stitching While I Was Waiting in yet another one.

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."  ~ Viktor E. Frankl

practicing

A little gift I made for her using the beads she gave me for Christmas.


"There is a calm center to everything." ~ Joyce Sequichie Hifler

hopeful hearts

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

an unexpected window

of opportunity yielded a few additional components for an ongoing project (as well as a cheesebox for storing them).

an alternative

So far I like this better than this.

With only four completed of a planned sixteen, the current arrangement is not permanent.

a large project

is currently taking shape but due to the size remains on my design wall upstairs on the third floor, where it's too cold to spend any substantial amount of time. So in the meantime I've been using up bits and pieces of yarn on another project that is really more about process than about the finished item. While I'm downstairs where it's warm and my fingers are busy crocheting, I'm working out the details in my head for the fiber collage/quilt project upstairs.


Recently I came across an interesting quote from Teresa Barkley

“And the realization that this was a very time consuming way to work made me very anxious to do something that was one of a kind. I really like the tactile quality of quilts and I loved working with fabric. But the realization came to me very early that fabulous quilts had been made for a very long time by people with more time and skill than I had and it was really kind of pointless for me to duplicate those designs in contemporary materials when I had so little time, I would rather use it on something that was uniquely my own. One - that it would be more interesting looking, and two - it would be a better use of my time. The world doesn't really need another flower garden quilt and that was the quilt that I had admired so much of my great-grandmother's and the first traditional one I had begun to piece and I've never finished it because I made a lot of technical errors along the way. It was a learning experience but I never felt the need to finish because it became much less interesting to me to make a quilt to use. I wanted something that was interesting to look at  . . . “