Daily Thread: Piece No. 4 (Transition), by Bonnie Sennott, 2019, pearl cotton and linen, 6 inches x 6 inches
March in New England is a blustery month, with weather that shifts erratically from winter to spring and back again (sometimes all in one day!). So I gave the fourth piece in my yearlong daily stitch journal the theme of “transition.”
I began stitching Daily Thread: Piece No. 4 on March 11, 2019 and finished on March 31 (Days 70-90 of the project). There was plenty of snow on the ground during that time, which led me to work quite a lot of white and cream seed stitches.
Stitch log for Piece No. 4 in progress
As I did for all 18 pieces in Daily Thread, I stitched a small amount of each day’s color on a piece of drawing paper. In addition to recording the progression of time and color across the year, these stitch logs had a personal meaning. Stitching the day’s color on the stitch log was a small ritual I used to mark the beginning of the day’s work — to set off the time for art from time devoted to other daily tasks — rather like ringing a bell at the start of a meditation session. When I exhibit Daily Thread at the Hosmer Gallery in Northampton in April, I will hang the stitch logs along with the embroideries.
Gradually, as the snow melted, the tawny colors of the yard and far field reappeared, along with a few shoots of green. My daily color choices expanded accordingly.
My next post will take a look at Daily Thread: Piece No. 5.
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