One Thing Leads to Another

When stitching on this piece nowadays

What comes to mind is

Every Stone is an Island unto Itself

I also thought shoreline rocks would "swoosh" between them.

Spent a few days stitching swooshes.

Decided this weekend to undo all those swooshes

Spent two days so far unswooshing

Just going with the flow!

Thinking of adding hints of islands....

....on the distant horizon.

 Just going with the flow.

With on piece coming to it's completion

Need to firm up plans on what to start next

Playing around with colours.

Just going with the flow

I learnt something this winter

In past winters I assumed snow tunnels we discovered

were made by mice.

But no

It is the squirrels.

We watch this little bird food devil

slide down his tree

straight into a tunnel at it's base

and pop out of one of three

tunnel entrances at the base of the bird feeder!

Cheeky

Happy Birthday Mark!

I hope one thing leads to another in your studio today.

And as Peter London says

in "No More Secondhand Art"

"... begin the initial phase with the open-ended statement 

Let's see what happens"