Tag: nancy (Page 21 of 23)

the original drawing:

the recreation in stitch:

I thought you might like to see the original drawing and the cloth version. Maybe I’ll go back and add the original drawings to the previous posts and include it from here on out. Nancy flew through the 14 pages left in my small, pocketbook-size journal. I happened to have this promotional notepad in my pocketbook, and she quickly filled it up, too. The womanchild was on fire, I tell you. I couldn’t keep blank pages in front of her. This is the only two-color drawing she did, and I opted to stitch it only in purple because I want the focus to be on the message she’s conveying, the story she’s telling, the conversation she is having.

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She draws, I stitch.
She is my developmentally disabled sister-in-law, Nancy,
and I am Jeanne, the woman who flat-out loves her.
Go here to start at the beginning and read your way current.

First comes her drawing:

Then comes my stitching:

Stitched this one as my daughter and I sat and watched a movie around dark: thirty. Got the starch while on an outing today, and it does make a difference, but I still need/want to restitch the first 11 drawings because I’ve changed the stitch I use, and this new stitch works eversomuch better. Starched, ironed, snapped and uploaded new photos of 1-14 out by the falls today, but it was dusk, and the quality of the photos still isn’t very good. Oh, fiddle-dee-dee, I’ll do something about that tomorrow. Or next week.

(p.s. This one kinda’ makes me think of Julius Caesar.)

(p.s.2: There are 6 pen strokes in this drawing.)

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She draws, I stitch.
She is my developmentally disabled sister-in-law, Nancy,
and I am Jeanne, the woman who flat-out loves her.
Go here to start at the beginning and read your way current.

She draws:

Then I stitch:

i promise
cross my heart
and hope to die
(which never sounded quite so
seriously serious
before now when
i’ve gotten a bit of
age on me.
age that makes me quite fluent
in worry)
that on sunday,
if not tomorrow night,
i am going to lightly starch,
iron, and find better lighting
to snap new photos.
then i think we’ll
really be cooking with gas.

(There are 2 pen strokes in this drawing.)

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She draws, I stitch.
She is my developmentally disabled sister-in-law, Nancy,
and I am Jeanne, the woman who flat-out loves her.
Go here to start at the beginning and read your way current.

She draws (using 2 pen strokes here):

Then I stitch:

Stitched this one as
my daughter and I
rode back up the mountain
this afternoon.
(She drove.)
Spent last weekend with my son,
this weekend with my daughter.
Sweetness.

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She draws, I stitch.
She is my developmentally disabled sister-in-law, Nancy,
and I am Jeanne, the woman who flat-out loves her.
Go here to start at the beginning and read your way current.

She draws:

I stitch:

There are 2 pen strokes in this drawing.

~~~~~~~~~

She draws, I stitch.
She is my developmentally disabled sister-in-law, Nancy,
and I am Jeanne, the woman who flat-out loves her.
Go here to start at the beginning and read your way current.

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She draws, I stitch.
She is my developmentally disabled sister-in-law, Nancy,
and I am Jeanne, the woman who flat-out loves her.
Go here to start at the beginning and read your way current.

I’ve been in the air all day,
flying from Portland
to Atlanta,
and will squeak this one in
just before turning into a
pumpkin.

Oh, and thanks to my son Kipp,
I think the comment debacle has been
remedied.
I sure hope so anyway
cause I’d sure love to hear
your response to these,
what you see,
what you feel,
what you might suggest.

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She draws, I stitch.
She is my developmentally disabled sister-in-law, Nancy,
and I am Jeanne, the woman who flat-out loves her.
Go here to start at the beginning and read your way current.

stitched during sessions of wds 2012.

i’m noticing that when i tear the paper away, some of the thread doesn’t lay flat against the cloth. wondering if i need to stitch them again over the existing stitching or add a layer of cloth or what.

right now, i’m just using one layer of broadcloth because i like the quasi-transparency, but if the stitching won’t lay flat, seems i need to do something. will get home tomorrow and iron them, see if that makes a difference.

this is one of those projects that i didn’t want to think too much about before starting because i’m prone to thinking myself into paralysis. i’ll figure something out.

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She draws, I stitch.
She is my developmentally disabled sister-in-law, Nancy,
and I am Jeanne, the woman who flat-out loves her.
Go here to start at the beginning and read your way current.

stitched this one today during
sessions at the
world domination summit
in portland, oregon.

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She draws, I stitch.
She is my developmentally disabled sister-in-law, Nancy,
and I am Jeanne, the woman who flat-out loves her.
Go here to start at the beginning and read your way current.

stitched while sitting
on a bench
in portland.

p.s. i received an email last night from a new friend,
a woman who is a kickass writer,
telling me that there’s a problem with my comment system.
a problem leaving comments, specifically.
the good news is that i am with my son who an help me sort this out.
the bad news is that it might be sunday night before we have time.

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She draws, I stitch.
She is my developmentally disabled sister-in-law, Nancy,
and I am Jeanne, the woman who flat-out loves her.
Go here to start at the beginning and read your way current.