Originally posted 2009-04-23 06:12:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Today they are going to put hardwood in the room across the hall from my studio, so I’m mostly sitting and stitching at the other end of the house and hoping it will be cool enough that I can open the windows to get rid of the glue smell.
But this is also giving me some time to reflect. I watch What Not to Wear quite often and I am always surprised and delighted by how changing your clothes can change your attitude.
I’m living proof that changing your decorating can do that too.
Since I moved to California in 1980, until last fall, my stash (threads, books & canvas) has never all been in the same room. Sometimes it’s been close, but never all there and all accessible.
Thanks to my DH moving his office back home and our moving to a new house, I now have it all here in one place.
Before the Move, this was how a project went.
Get an idea.
Go to the Internet for inspiration because books are upstairs at the other end of the house.
Pull threads from what’s downstairs (too lazy to go upstairs for new unless necessary( meaning same old color palettes and rooting through tote bags of thread.
Move stuff in closet to get to canvas bin and find crumpled canvas about the right size.
Root around under chaise in bedroom for stretcher bars and through desk for thumbtacks.
Start stitching.
For almost 30 years, with only some variation, I’ve worked that way.
Now it’s all in one room and my work has changed. Because the inspirational and technique books are right here, I use them, adding new stitches to my repertoire all the time. Because the threads are right here, I try new combinations, both of color and of thread. I liked that fuchsia, teal, and hot pink I’m using for Tony’s kimono, but I wouldn’t have used it in the past because it would have been too hard to pull the colors.
But with everything here, it’s easy and I can explore.
I’m even finishing pieces, something I didn’t do because that’s here too.
Sometimes you just don’t know how much better things can be until you are forced to change.
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