Slow Stitching

Zentangle, Mandalas, Zendoodle, Labyrinth, Neurographica, what other types of meditative arts are out there? This week I discovered Slow Stitching. Apparently it’s a relatively new term (since around 2014) to describe intuitive, non-planned embroidery. You may not know this, but I’ve been in touch with fiber arts and embroidery very early on in life, taught by my grandmother. My skills are rusty at best, but I thoroughly enjoyed the process of adding bits of ribbon, fabric and even paper to form a small square patch, one stitch at a time.

This is the first one I made:

Here’s a “before and after”. Notice how I even stitched bits of paper on to a Zentangle tile:

Here’s a close-up of the finished one:

This is the second one I made, using ribbons and fabrics only. I like it, but I enjoyed the randomness of the first one a bit more.

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