October 31, 2006
Getting my groove on
You might think I had stopped sewing all together, but it was a short hiatus.
I am slowly getting back into it. My web site doesn't reflect my two newest pieces, I am having the slides scanned so that I can create web pages for them. But those two pieces were created quickly and right on top of one another. Soon afterward I started the nude male. and as I got into him, I came to a full stop. So I began to play and experiment. I am not finished playing but it has done me good to give myself a creative breather.
As Caryl Bryer Fallert once said, when you are finished with a large piece, give yourself permission to make pot holders.
I have been picking up the man and sewing into him. I am not ready to pick him up and sew him exclusively, but I am getting into small easily finished sewn projects. What is a relief.
I can't expect much right now. I am packing and cleaning bits of my studio each day. There is alot on my plate right now. I need time to see friends and family, open post office boxes, purchase packing supplies and I don't know what else. I am having an adreniline rush just thinking about it.
We have been planning this move for the last 6 months and it is finally upon us. I feel giddy, unsettled, unsure, excited and sad all at once. I am in mourning at all I will be leaving behind and unable to see what I will gain. I get brief glimpses of gains which is good. I just want to experience all of these feelings as they occur, so they don't gang up on me later.