Words

One thing that everyone seems to do now is to think about a word that might keep them company for a whole year. Steer them when they lose focus or despair about their own intentions and how sometimes they get sidetracked as daily life takes over our existence. There are lots of ways to reinforce these words or help remind yourself. Some simply note it down in their journal, others write it in something that they can pocket and run their fingers over or some post a sticky note on their computer screen.

However you do it it lends itself to a bit of creativity as well as being a reminder.

Last year my embroidery group set a challenge of embroidering a word in some way. It could be how the word made you feel or something it made you think of or you could embroider the actual word. I chose to try making a design out of a word and embroider that design. I had read in a design book that one should do a number of designs, 25 was the suggested number, not just stop with the first or second one for those end up usually being the usual design and that if you want something truly different you keep trying things until you find something you like. I needless to say didn’t do 25, but I did do a bunch and I think I shared my design of “Abstract’ with you here last November.

this year I decided to embroider my word for the year. I also was learning a new Needle Lace stitch and wanted to try that as edging around the word. Then I got carried away and collaged it onto some papers and now it has a prominent place to hang in my studio as an ever present reminder of what I want to remember to do this year. It was a very enjoyable concentration of energy exercise,