There is something about slow stitching - ie by hand and not sewing machine - that i love. it can be done anywhere, any time, while chatting with others, alone in silence at dawn or outside in the sunshine, in front of diversions like the TV etc. It can be meditative and as it grows slowly it can become satisfying.
The blog post on FOUND POETRY took me to thinking about collage and the slow stitching i do each evening - the pieces become a collage of cloth over time. Cloth is 'found', picked at random and added to with stitch and /or other cloth or even same cloth torn up and added to itself creating texture and a collage of elements.
Examples here show what can be done with a minimal range of stitches that i use - that being straight stitch or a derivative of it such as couching, cross stitch, seed, backstitch, wrapped stitch and sometimes knot stitch.
All things stitching that is blogged about here can be found under TEXTILES in the blog section.
Often texture is created with stitch but also with layering of cloth, such as in these examples that include weaving strips into a cloth to use as background.
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So inspiring Gina...you have reminded me of how creative..meditative ...slow embroidery can be...plus...have unearthed..found... my embroidery hoop ...it's a start...😘