Retrospective (7/25/2016)
Patch #203 Sometimes stuff happens ...
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This is one of several things that arrived in the mail last Thursday ...
I was probably 8 or 9 years old, but I remember buying this kit at Claudio's Marina in Greenport on a rainy day during our annual Shelter Island vacation. No doubt it was intended to keep me occupied on the days we couldn't get to the beach. What I liked most about it was the departure from the stamped cross stitch that had been my initial training ground. And I thought it was beyond cool that you got to combine threads of different colors to stitch the clouds and the waves.
My current-day self was aghast at the subject matter: the harpooning of a whale. Likewise, I lamented my parents' use of Masonite as a backing board, the acid from which effectively "cooked" the cloth.
Still, a memory is a memory, so I cut a patch of blue sky ...
and added it to my July 14th post "Learning as I go" ... which seemed apt.
The rest of the day was odd ... two patches just didn't work out so I switched to stitching the patches for the first half of July onto Remember 2016 ...
Honestly, I think the convention coverage has gotten to me ... and there's still another week to go.
4 comments:
your year is looking fab!
Thanks Mo ... it isn't titled yet, but I'm starting to think "learning" will end up in there somehow
I like that you are using parts of it. I have some old art that I may do the same with
Liz
Thanks, Liz ... can't claim this as an original thought. I saw cutting up old work as a creative block-breaker sometime back. I dare say I have a fair number of old pieces to choose from!
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