"Embroidereading".

I read about a neat contest and I am going to enter!

I don't usually feel compelled to enter these sorts of things but for some reason I just had to do it this time. I heard of it through the So September blog. I love Corrine's work and neat patterns.

Before I even made it over to Checkout Girl to find out the official rules, I had my design in my head, words picked out and my purdy blue linen hooped up.

The idea is to embroider a poem, original or quoted, and embellish it a bit while being sure to make the words the real subject of the piece.

I decided to stitch a snippet from a song called "Far Away" by Ingrid Michaelson that kinda makes me think of our soon-to-be life on a certain chilly island. I hope song lyrics are acceptable. Hmm? Too late now. I am going with it.

To frame the words, I doodled some dotted lines like the ones found on a map key and I roughly drew in some rugged lines that I hope resemble part of Kodiak's coastline. I thought I needed some frill, so I looked up Alaska's state flower, forget-me-nots by the way, and drew a few of those on.

For being last minute, and not doing any sketches and not being a smarty about poetry or beautiful words- I really like it so far. I will show you the finished project when I am done.

Wish me luck!

Gotta get back to stitchin'...