a contemplation…

I think my tail has been caught..the garden chores are all done and the rain has arrived to keep everything moving along. This weekend we visit Cambridge to deliver the long promised Red Quilt to the May birthday girl. And after I finished the label today, i started thinking about the next project. There is till the Birch quilt to complete, and the Porcelain quilt is a “slow cloth”, but I intend it to be so.

I have been mulling over some ideas for a time about what comes next, and feel as if I am being carried in a warm current of exquisite ideas and images at the moment. I am constantly inspired by Jude’s work at Spirit Cloth-the colours, the skill, the ingenuity and innovation of the elements she works with. Every post is a surprise and a delight. And I have become a regular reader of Karen’s blog and love the purity of her work. I seem to being pulled back towards some hand stitching. I joined the hand embroidery group at Stichin’ fingers and I am going to work with the stitch along.

I have been pondering this month’s TIF challenge too-The stories that are and the stories that are possible-and I think what I have in mind will fit in with that.

Just a few weeks ago I was talking to my friend VP about why we both felt we were “Jacks of All Trades.” We came to no very firm conclusions, except to accept we were. (We blamed our school!) I am going to begin an autobiographical piece-the story that is-and use the scroll format Sharon posted about on her blog yesterday. That way I will be able to add elements as I can and as I want to, and include not only the different stitches for the Stitch Along, but a variety of techniques that a Jack (should it be Jill?) of all trades might employ. Ones I know and ones still to learn-the story that is possible.