Reboot 2026?
This blog is so typical for me: I love to start new things, but my follow-through is miserable. I'm rather glad to have even this sketchy record of the beginnings of my stitch journey back in 2022, however. To recap from 2022-2026, I had a very fruitful year or two of thread painting, but finally got bogged down in 2024 when I tried to stitch a black cat and failed miserably, then started a large hoop featuring an old cottonwood and became bored with all the leafy stuff behind and around it. My next restart hoop was a smaller one of a sunset sky, but the magic just seemed gone. I simply hated the colors. I set aside all my hoops and threads, and in fall of '24 I became deeply involved in moving, which took all my energy. Once we were relocated to the new place, still living the apartment life in Albuquerque, I found a place for my thread storage box, and filled up a wonderful lidded basket with all my cloth and works in progress, carefully bagged so I could return to e...
