Showed my little stitches to a friend at work and confessed that I was bored with this piece already. She suggested adding words for one round for my own variety of experience. Couldn’t believe I hadn’t thought of that!
Took me a few days to decide that this wouldn’t be potty-mouthed. Instead it should also avoid snarkiness and just be a positive therapeutic project in the end. I’m only half-done with the words and there’s still quite a bit of the center log cabin to fill in. Should I frame the words around the outside with more log-cabin-ing?
I dunno.
This is turning out to mean more to me than I thought it would.
Serendipity
I think the words look lovely as they are, “floating” outside the compact square.
Great idea using words, and I’m kind of happy, that you decided on positive ones this time. ;)
doesn’t it always?
I like that the words travel around the centerpiece…I think I would use them as the framing. Beautiful work C.
looks great, the words were a good idea, it makes it very you (which is a good thing!). I think it would look nice with more log cabin rings around it but then I don’t have to stitch them so easy for me to say!
How about a “frame”? Some filagree or faux wood or a window frame?
your friend has a great eye! i love the way it looks and the fact that this piece of art is changing and growing. those are always the most meaningful projects, aren’t they?
Sometimes I find out a lot about myself by just making something mindlessly, and then looking at it to see what it says about me right then.
it’s lovely and the words make a perfect frame around the stitching, just how it is!
Let the words float, C.
more to frame the words
I love this! I like the words as they are, floating.
What a great idea, and so your style
I love the words, and I think I’d leave it the way it is. But if you want to keep on stitching, I don’t think that would be a mistake, either! I’m glad you found solace in this, and I hope you still are.
It looks so very pretty!
And you have hit the nail on the head why I am always so confused by people who buy “the fabrics” to make a quilt (backing, borders, binding–all of it) not realizing that part of the joy in it are the surprises in the PROCESS of it all.
Float it! It doesn’t sound like you want to stitch a border after you finish the center.