Stitch
A stitch is a symbol.
Running stitch scuttles across the fabric with small precise footsteps or lopes large deliberate ones. In and out, from here to there and back again. In and out and out and in, a link between now and then.
Cross stitch. Small and neat on a pre-designed sampler or large and sloppy. Paths crossing.
French knots. Deliberateness and exactness reside in the French knot, the full stop. Sometimes called a period. Period in time. Stopping time. Pause. Knots. Texture.
Couching stitch. A thread snaking itself in and out of running stitches, turning slashes into a solid line. Filling in the gaps. Hiding the holes.
Cutting edges. Connective threads.
Running stitch scuttles across the fabric with small precise footsteps or lopes large deliberate ones. In and out, from here to there and back again. In and out and out and in, a link between now and then.
Cross stitch. Small and neat on a pre-designed sampler or large and sloppy. Paths crossing.
French knots. Deliberateness and exactness reside in the French knot, the full stop. Sometimes called a period. Period in time. Stopping time. Pause. Knots. Texture.
Couching stitch. A thread snaking itself in and out of running stitches, turning slashes into a solid line. Filling in the gaps. Hiding the holes.
Cutting edges. Connective threads.