Needle Lace

Day 33: I seem to have got caught up in the web of slow-stitching. The appeal of being able to do what I feel like doing at any particular moment, and doing it wherever I want to do it is rather liberating after hours, days, months, years, decades of devoting myself to specific projects and their particular demands. For the last several days, I have been thinking that my current piece wanted some needle lace in one of its open areas. To that end, I backstitched a rectangle to be the framework, and then worked several rows of simple corded buttonhole. Halfway through the patch, I said, "Hmmm...it wants some holes," so I made a few over the next couple of rows and then finished off with corded buttonhole again. Why? Because I could. And that's what slow-stitching is all about. Having fulfilled my zen moment, now I will resume the rigid discipline of quilting until I have completed the obligatory ten "petals" for the day.