Slow Enough

Pushing and pulling tiny stitches...

In Techniques For Becoming Unstuck I shared a few clues that I have been exploring personally to try to keep creative thought and action flowing. One of the clues I feel increasingly drawn to, is to “Touch Stuff” - to immerse myself in material (probably as a direct result of spending too much of my working day immersed in the digital).

The colours and textures of a holiday in Norway helped me feel saturated, in a sensory way, and when this experience had percolated through me, this weaving in Trondheim stayed with me:

I had started a very small tapestry many months ago, but it had stalled. It was my first tapestry, and the wool I used was fine two ply, so it was a slow process. But the textures and colours in Norway spurred me on, and I returned to the tapestry to complete it.

20cm x 20cm

It’s cute, and I like it, probably more so for it’s wonkiness and lack of finesse. I like that you can see all my struggles: the pink legs of the chair, those (erroneous) white lines within the pink wood against the blue, the uneven selvedges, the not-so-round moon.

But I realised, once I had finished it,