Small piece: Sleet

The soft greys of these scraps were too appealing to pass over in my box of Little Bits And Pieces (not to be confused with the box of Medium-Sized Big Bits or the baskets of Bigger Bits).  The day was grey, and except for the fact that the temperature was in the 60sF, the sky could have been a sleety one.  The Atlanta area has not seen a serious cold snap yet, so I have imagined it.

I would hate to think that I have given up figurative embroidery, but these little quilts are so much fun— all small size, so the challenge is to design with clear shapes and to-the-point stitches so that the piece doesn't get too cluttered and turn into a muddle of thread and cloth in need of a good sorting.

This work joins others in my small basket of experimental pieces from the past six or eight months.  The pieces are a group of friends, each of which has its own story to tell.  It is the story of a person or an object that can be as interesting as the person or object itself, don't you think?  And the longer you know someone/something, the more interesting the story becomes.