running stitch
satin stitch
stem stitch
french knots
yes
can do
love embroidery
Bayeux tapestry( 900 years old ) depicting the Norman invasion, is actually an embroidery, 230 feet long. It took approx 10 years to make, supposedly by medieval nuns, taking thousands of hours
planning on making a bayeux tapestry?
no
not this year
intending to mow paddocks
mend a broken fence
pare down my vhs collection
instead
moi - a creative pragmatist
a feminist with medieval attainments
unable to be squeezed into a pigeon hole
in the compulsory liberal conformist ideology
of a 21st century world
Midweek Motif - Poets United
There's nothing better than being a non-conformist until everyone else wants to be one too!
ReplyDeleteNot to be squeezed into a mold is an accomplishment indeed! (Keep on embroidering and mowing those paddocks!)
ReplyDeleteThank God for this ME! The contrast is splendid, though in its way, making a tapestry must have been as difficult as tending and containing a field. There is a novel I know that features the Bayeau Tapestry in a profound way, called "The Comet Seekers" by a Scot feminist.... Great poem.
ReplyDelete'running stitch'..A wonderful use of the prompt word.
ReplyDeleteI, too, loved the running stitch. And the to do list instead of sewing........good one!
ReplyDeleteMy daughter is learning to embroider - but on a machine! No medieval perseverance there.
ReplyDeleteNice that you know yourself and like yourself - embroidery or not.
Yeah i can do all of those stitches. Don't embrodier as i used to many years ago. But having a granddaughter now 5. I did slip back into it when she was 2. I made her a pillow
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ReplyDeleteAha, a woman of parts, as 'they' used to say. I actually know how to do all those stitches too, but never really took to embroidery. My Mum was very good at it. I have been doing a spot of crochet lately, myself.
I used to do running and other stitches. These days it is button and patch. :)
ReplyDeleteI like the use of running stitch..I think you are working towards a wondrous tapestry.
ReplyDeleteBayeux tapestry- loved learning about it! Also..feminist with medieval attainments!!
ReplyDeleteI'd completely forgotten about the running stitch! I used to love embroidery but haven't done any in ages, except for the sheep's faces and legs on the blanket I knitted for my grandson - no Bayeux Tapestry! I love the idea of feminist embroidery and tapestry!
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