{"id":3574,"date":"2017-10-19T16:46:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T16:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/?p=3574"},"modified":"2017-10-19T16:46:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T16:46:20","slug":"try-try-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/try-try-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Try, Try Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the past month I’ve been working on the three small pieces I dyed\u00a0in September.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Mug\"

Sidekick<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a92017 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

It was relatively smooth-going on the first two, but the third has proven to be a real challenge. I mistakenly thought that working smaller would be quicker and easier (the image area of each is around 3.5″ x 4″). Yet it didn’t exactly work out that way. This has been one of those instances when I have been grateful for the ease with which stitches can be undone.<\/p>\n

\"Scissors\"

Yin Yang<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a92017 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

Of the dozen pieces in this on-going series, this latest one has definitely been the trickiest, with many false starts. The saucer was killing me until I finally decided to just dive in and keep stitching to see what would happen.<\/p>\n

\"Stage

In Process<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a92017 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

Although there are technical elements of the earlier iterations that I like a lot and will likely pursue in the future, that darn spoon needed to be grounded.<\/p>\n

\"Stage

In Process<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a92017 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

The experience is best equated to matching up the threads of a screw-on lid — while sometimes the top seems<\/em> to be closed, you know it’s not quite right.<\/p>\n

\"Saucer

Prone to Wait\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a92017 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

There’s nothing to be done but undo and retry, sometimes several times. Keeping in mind Adrianna Huffington’s quote: “Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success”, it’s a sweet feeling once everything is settled properly into the grooves at last.<\/p>\n

\"Saucer

Prone to Wait, <\/strong>detail\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a92017 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

On a Different Note________________________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Decoding the Creative Genius of Leonardo da Vinci<\/a>: This week Tom Ashbrook of NPR’s On Point<\/strong><\/em> interviewed\u00a0 biographer Walter Isaacson about his latest book ‘Leonardo Da VInci’<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. Fascinating! I’m adding it to my “to-be-read” list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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