[Nfb-krafters-korner] My newest blog

River Woman riverwoman at zoominternet.net
Sun Jul 7 19:21:10 UTC 2013 

Yes, Lindy, I often think of my Mother when I am stitching, too.  I miss my 
mother every day, and particularly in the evenings when I feel like the 
phone will ring and she'll be there. Or, at dawn, when we would have been 
walking together before daylight - we did this for years. When I am walking, 
I am often remembering our time together chatting and walking.  I have some 
of the afghans she made, and treasure them. They are gifts of love to keep 
us warm in the winter time.

Lynda

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lindy van der Merwe" <stephlin at iafrica.com>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2013 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] My newest blog


> Thanks for sharing, Linda. My mum loved to do all kinds of crafts and I 
> really miss sharing my crafts with her sometimes.
> I still have a lot of items she had made, though, which brings me comfort 
> and reminds me of her love.
> Lindy
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
> To: <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2013 7:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] My newest blog
>
>
>> How beautiful.  u have come a long ways since that day and climbed  over
>> the obstacles   that have been thrown  in your path.   You have proven to
>> yourself, "Yes, I can!"
>>
>> Joyce  Kane
>> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
>> Blindhands at AOL.com
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 7/7/2013 10:36:49 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> riverwoman at zoominternet.net writes:
>>
>> Can you  remember when you first learned to use a needle and thread?
>> In my latest  blog article, I talk about that day, with my mother at my
>> side, gently  teaching me to do embroidery.
>>
>> I will attach the link AND post the  article here below, too.
>>
>> Lynda
>>
>> (Block quote)
>>
>>
>>
>> I  was thinking this morning about our influences, and how we got to 
>> where
>> we are  today as artists.  Have you stopped to think about where the 
>> ideas
>> come  from when you are creating your own  art?
>>
>>
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>>
>> I thought about the choices we  make. How do we decide what to create?
>>
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>>
>> I immediately think  of  my MOTHER who patiently teaching  me to do
>> embroidery when I was  a very young child.  We were  sitting side by side 
>> in my
>> GRANDMOTHER's kitchen.  She had purchased a kit. It consisted of a piece 
>> of
>> beautiful linen fabric, in white. There were three colors of embroidery
>> thread: Light blue, dark blue, and silver gray.  I held those little 
>> skeins of
>> thread in my hands and moved them about to catch the light on them.  They
>> seemed to shimmer as I turned them over and over again. They felt so 
>> silky
>> soft in my small hands. The colors seemed to me like they were magic; 
>> they
>> were the colors of the sky on a summer afternoon.
>>
>>
>>
>> There  were two  more thing in my embroidery kit; there was a slender,
>> sharp,  silver needle and a round metal embroidery hoop.
>>
>>
>>
>> As I speak of  this day, I can still see my mother bending over me, and
>> showing my how to put  my needle into the cloth, to push gently down on 
>> it, and
>> to bring it to the  back of the linen cloth. I searched for just the 
>> right
>> spot where the needle  would be pushed into the back of the cloth, and 
>> gave
>> it a shove and watched it  pop up onto the front once again.
>>
>>
>>
>> That feeling of pushing the  needle gently into the fabric, then pulling
>> the blue thread so gently until it  was completely through the fabric was
>> something that stays with me in my  memories after sixty years.
>>
>>
>>
>> My imagination brings me once again  to feel the silken thread, the 
>> tension
>> of moving it from the top to the back  of the linen, and then the pull of
>> bringing it back up to the surface.   It is a feeling of  the comfort of
>> repetition  and the  solitude of working with fabric and thread.  It's a 
>> quiet
>> feeling that  gently comes to me when I remember  the slender  silver 
>> needle
>> in my  small fingers.  I was about 8 years old at that time.
>>
>>
>>
>> This  afternoon lesson sitting with my Mother, is one of the many 
>> precious
>> things my  Mother gave me. Did she  recognize that I was a child who was
>> destined to  be a maker of beautiful things? Somehow, she must have known
>> intuitively that  it was important to take the afternoon and spend it 
>> with her
>> oldest  daughter.  Did she know that she was teaching  me  a life  lesson 
>> with
>> three skeins  of thread, a delicate needle, and a piece of  ivory linen?
>>
>>
>>
>> Today, I recognize that this was my first  "painting" lesson.  In the art 
>> I
>> am making these days, I am conscious  that I am PAINTING with a NEEDLE, 
>> and
>> the THREADS are the SPLASHES of COLOR,  my PIGMENTS.  Into this mix of
>> fibers and threads, I add dashes of  natural gemstones; I gather things 
>> from
>> Nature that will be part of my  pictures.  And, not only are my THREADS 
>> the
>> strokes of the painting's  surface, so are the glass beads, the pearls, 
>> the
>> vintage objects, and the  crystals.
>>
>>
>>
>> (End of Block Quote)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> PICTURED  HERE:  Ilsa's Butterfly Garden, Mixed Media Painting on 
>> Fabric.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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