I have been embroidering more than I used to. The fascination of different threads is all consuming. And, I have a small group of people who also embroider. It is interesting how when one has a group of friends who appreciate the same things you do how much more you work to make interesting pieces. This same group of people agree to try certain studies… most people call them samples but That word sends me fleeing… so I call them studies. This particular challenge was to embroider a word. It could be the word itself or the idea behind the word or…. if you wanted to do, whateve,r as long as it was around a word… hey that’s OK! My kind of challenge absolutely.

I decided I would embroider the word. I found a scrap of fabric and did the work. I read that when one wants to do a design one should try 25 different suggestions, otherwise you may be falling into the desgin that is the easiest or the most common iteration . I didn’t do 25 … but I did draw several designs and this is the one I chose to sew. Can you see the word, or does my poet brain obscure how I see.

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