New Year and Stitching Hope

 Happy New Year!!! I always love this time of year because I feel like the slate is cleared and I can start over. I know that I can start over every day if I want but there is something about the end of something and beginning of another. I'm grateful for all my experiences in 2012 and looking for more of them this year. I didn't spend a lot of time blogging last year but I do miss that. I thought about doing it every day but .. aaacccckkkk here it is the 11th already!!! So .. i'm going to start now and see what I can muster.
I love having creativity in my life every day. I still enjoy so many different things. I wonder if this makes you less if you don't focus on just one thing. I find it keeps me from ever being tired of creating. I think the biggest thing is feeling like I have so much to make ... how will I ever get it all done? I'm just going to keep going. Stitching, drawing, painting, sewing...
Hopefully, the new year will bring more structure and I will have the means to continue doing what brings me joy.

                                                                              
I love the feeling of stitching silk onto a blanket remnant I just love the texture it creates. The red above is a silk dress that I dyed .. it's never recommended to dye fabric that has commercial color because there is no way to know if there is something toxic in those chemicals but heck, we wear it don't we? I'm still committed to using recycled material to create with. As time goes on my mind is flooded with possibilities. I just loved the red color. It's going to be a small bag. I love making different bags. I have two started to share with you here. The second bag is all recycled material along with some over dyed fabrics. I guess the photos show the detail .. these make me happy. Thanks for stopping over and sharing my joy. I hope your year is filled with the same!!!

Tuesday Tones of Textural Textiles

 Here is the progress on My Heart & Soul cloth. I was stumped on what to do and then learned about thread beads from Jude Hill's course called Heart Whispering. The class has ended but the experience will last me a long while. Hopefully I will be able to take another class soon. Currently I am unemployed and haven't found any job that I want to do. Soon I am hoping I will be motivated to put up a shop and sell some of the artwork that I've been creating. I've had a hard time getting myself out of my recent funk. So honestly I've been lying in bed stitching hearts. This is some of the evidence of that work. I have fallen hard for thread beads. I love love love them. I am thinking maybe this is much like the dots that I like to paint. White on white .. what I see that the beads do in the back ground of the biggest heart here are to sort of bring together the heart. It's still seen but the beads give it some cohesiveness. Maybe this truely is like healing my heart with the beads of light. I will continue to add more and more stitching and not worry about the time it will take.. certainly it can take a life time to heal a heart.

 This is the heart on a shirt that I did with the inspiration from Deanna's experiments with Shibori. I did this on a white tshirt. I love how it turned out. I plan on making a special shirt out of this by adding some stitching and other elements. I'll post those in the future.
The rest of the hearts here are a heart stitched for someone elses healing. Healing hearts with stitches. I don't know the person it will be going too but I wanted to send it out because she is a fellow stitcher from the class with Jude. I have learned many of the stitches here from her and hopefully my intention will offer some warmth whatever her situation is. :) It's nice to be a part of that.

More to come soon~