Deb Sposa at Artisun asked to see a close-up of the stitches on The Land as the Crow Flies ...
At the time I replied that I wasn't sure I wanted to show them ...
because they're not what I consider my "best work" ...
But I reconsidered, because these pictures detail a learning process I want to remember. How the thrift store linen clothing, torn into strips, would not be held by Jude Hill's invisible basting alone. Nor by kantha stitches worked in Deb Lacativa's "Dirty Threads." Only a final application of single-strand overcast stitch along all the raw edges finally effected a cloth that felt capable of fully being.
It will soon be done and shown it in its final state. But I will never again love it as much as I love it now, my hands traveling over its imperfections, working The Land.
