category Free Inquiry
What does this have to do with my free inquiry project, which was embroidery? Embroidery brought me face to face with the mysteries of the universe. What? Huh? How? Alysha, that sounds ridiculous! It may sound ridiculous, but it’s… Continue Reading →
In a previous post, I talked about aphantasia — the inability to conjure mental images — which I think I experience a mild form of. How inaccessible or faint is my visual imagination, though, and can engaging in a visual… Continue Reading →
As I go through my embroidery free inquiry project, I come to see the myriad ways in which the inquiry itself is not only free but I am freed by it. There are some very literal, immediate ways this has… Continue Reading →
“Fibre and cloth are a universal part of human life. They fill an almost endless number of roles in our practical, personal, emotional, social, communicative, economic, aesthetic, and spiritual lives.” — Beverly Gordon The Ukrainian Fabric of my Family My last… Continue Reading →
I have not stitched anything since last posting about my embroidery inquiry. I finished any projects I had on the go and have nothing else in the house I can stitch. I am still trying to avoid ordering off of… Continue Reading →
Here’s a recap of the goals I set/things I want to get out of this free inquiry project and an update about how they’re going: (1) I want something to do with my hands while I watch bad TV. This… Continue Reading →
I do not have a dominant hand or side of the body but rather perform certain tasks with my right hand, certain tasks with my left, and other tasks I can perform with either. While there are some tasks for… Continue Reading →
Last week, I unboxed (unpackaged?) the simple embroidery kit I had ordered. This week, I started stitching. As my video from last week showed, the instructions provided with the kit were pretty minimal. As I figured, I had to rely… Continue Reading →
I do not, typically, view myself as a particularly creative or artistic person. I was never very good at drawing, painting, ceramics, or anything like that — though that could have been (probably was) due to a lack of real… Continue Reading →
