getting started

possibly the most difficult part of creating anything is

getting started

what to do? can I do it? what will people think?

do I have the “right” materials?

I’ll try it tomorrow, next week, next month

and so it goes

granddaughter Carrie has just started gardening

she’s growing her own seedlings and left peas and lettuce at my front door

I’d been planning to get some veggies started but needed to weed, dig the plot

add the compost – a lot of work

  so, the seedlings got me started

I even built a bamboo frame for the peas

thinning the bamboo at the same time

then I took some rhubarb to the neighbor across the road

 she gave me two little sunflower starters

so I went to the garden center, lined up and bought us both strong, healthy tomato plants

all Spring starters

I had started warping the tapestry loom weeks ago

but the design and cartoon just didn’t work – no matter how many times I re-drew it

in order to just start I finished the warping

and decided to weave something I was comfortable with and had done before

first , choosing colours in the yarn stash – something I love to do

all handspun wool and silk

and then started on a fringeless wedge weave piece

9.5″ x 11″ my biggest tapestry yet

one of the pages in “the book” gave me the idea for the next scrappy piece

 I stitch in the evenings so it was time to get started

a pattern in my journal, drawn in 2007, was a good starting point

choosing scraps from the handwoven stash

and getting started

the larger hexie goes in the window for another week

but it gave me an idea – what is the smallest hexie you can comfortably stitch?

one size down and the paper patterns on the right are even smaller

photographing them I realized the scrappy background can be used as a canvas

and a scrappy bouquet is started

J.M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan wrote

” the reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings”

so take a deep breath, and fly