Sometimes I tell myself to be more confident in the richness and reproductive power of life. Generally. To trust the unity of spirit and to feel embedded in the flow of life instead of clinging to what I cherish for being unique...
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Fiddling with the tiniest scraps
Sometimes when I see pictures on quilters' blogs showing inchies, I wonder how the ladies find the patience to do this. Lately I have come to finding pleasure in the challenge of smallness, also trying to use every snippet of my treasured fabrics, knowing there is no supply, once they are used. On the other hand, it is possible to reproduce some of the patterns by ordering a reprint, but the result is not satisfying, the feel is different. Sometimes I'm ridden by regret to have discarded so many fabrics before I started quilting.
Sometimes I tell myself to be more confident in the richness and reproductive power of life. Generally. To trust the unity of spirit and to feel embedded in the flow of life instead of clinging to what I cherish for being unique...
Sometimes I tell myself to be more confident in the richness and reproductive power of life. Generally. To trust the unity of spirit and to feel embedded in the flow of life instead of clinging to what I cherish for being unique...
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7 comments:
..sometimes working small is very satisfying...
..I certainly find it so, and have difficulty scaling up....
Always, though, choices have to be made with regard to colours, patterns, etc...
...this is what MAKES the finished item...
The other scraps will have their day... :-)
smallness is just a point of view. i almost feel the more time and patience i spend on something, the bigger it becomes.
and yes, cherishing keep you confined and limits you capacity to grow. to continue.
just love seeing those smaller pieces of cloth joined together to make something new and beautiful. and then the stitching is just the icing on the cake, as they say.
"To trust the unity of spirit and to feel embedded in the flow of life instead of clinging to what I cherish for being unique..."
interesting thought, that!
xo
From now on I will save all the tiny scraps for you Eva! Of course only the colorful and textured ones! I love your thoughts!
Getting obsessed with tiny scraps makes me think of the Incredible Shrinking Man, getting small enough to grasp the essence of the cosmos by looking in.
j'aime cette spontanéité dans le patchwork..joli!
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