Don't you just love the anticipation of beginning a new piece of work?
Laying out possible fabrics, threads and embellishments (which gives me the thrill of going through my stash boxes) -- deciding whether I need more thread (of course, I always do) -- determining whether to tea stain some of the fabric -- wondering what other techniques I can use to bring this piece to life - this is the pleasant anticipation I create before actually taking those first stitches.
"So you see imagination needs noodling -- long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering." - Brenda Ueland
I'm thinking about what's ahead -- not in the far off future but in the next days and months. I'm looking at this plate of possibilities awaiting their place on a stitchery.
I'm looking at this color combination patiently awaiting its turn in the punchneedle.
I'm thinking about the next hot cup of tea with three squares of Green & Black's chocolate - 85% of course.
I'm thinking about the green of the upcoming spring.
Above all I'm thinking of all the things that I have to be thankful for and I'm approaching each day with wonder and anticipation.
"An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing." - Samuel Smiles
