Winter is the perfect season to hunker down and stitch. I find the process of moving needle through cloth to be very restorative. I have been working on a small series of works called Ordinary Oracle, about women who live among us, speaking truth and seeing visions of a better future. These are smallish pieces, with dense stitching.
Ordinary Oracle: Vision of Repair (detail) Linen, cotton and silk noil, hand embroidered and stitched.
I have been voraciously reading. Here are a few I have enjoyed lately:
The Marriage Portrait, by Maggie O’Farrell; Lucy by the Sea, by Elizabeth Strout (on audio); Less is Lost, by Andrew Sean Greer (on audio); Our Missing Hearts, by Celeste Ng (on audio); How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water, by Angie Cruz, and The World Made Straight, by Ron Rash.
I am able to read so much because I listen to audio books on Libby when I am stitching—it keeps me out of my own head too much. I still love to hold a book and always have a library book on the nightstand.