Breathe

The woods are breathing in the warmth.

I'm breathing in the Joy that sunshine brings.

Finally!

Up at the pond my beautiful magnolia

is bursting into bloom.

And Rusty Pups can now lick morning dew

from fresh young grasses growing along the pond's edge.

I'm stitching fresh air into my blue background.

Some paler blues....

....and some darker blues.

There is a lot of untamed texture on this piece.

This piece started as a challenge to use blue....

....my least favourite colour.

The more I stitch the more I like it!

I thought to call it

"Holding Deep Memory"

referring way, way back to my schooldays

where my dislike of blue started

but it also refers to rocky inlets on Georgian Bay

a place oh, so close to my heart.

I hope you have a place that fills your heart with memory.

Blue on Blue and a bit of Rust

Blue on the design wall

 Pinned over lots of colour waiting for attention.

Rusted blue linen tablecloth

My old denim dress torn into strips and couched down into rocks

Rocks are circles

Blue shibori moon

Moons are circles.

Moonlit rock circles

Loving the shibori moon

Need to do more of that.

Blue

Rocky shoreline

Beneath full blue moons

We are circled by rocks

We have a coastal community in Nova Scotia called Blue Rocks.

Rust can always be found amidst shoreline rocks.

It needs to rest right now as I decide

if more stitching is needed.

I am a fan of excessive stitching!

Whether to stitch inside the rock circles

or

surround the rocks with stitch.

Don't know yet.

But for now I've had my fill of blue!

I hope you too can play with a colour you you never use!

Not so Blue About Blue Anymore

Had to go buy blue threads

Now I can continue working on my first all blue piece!

I have a problem

Don't like the two rectangles slap bang in the middle there

Need to decide how to eliminate them

That might take some time!

What I do love is the texture created by my couched stones.

There will be more stones

Surprise!

A crowd of stones

in a time of isolation

 Every isolated individual

forming a community.

Where will this piece lead me I wonder

There are several new blue ideas in my head

Hope your day is full of blue skies