Thistle and Thread

Behind the Stitches 🧵✨

​If you flip this hoop over, you’ll see a chaotic web of knots, loose threads, and "what was I thinking?" crossovers. It’s a total disaster zone back there.

​But turn it around? You see the little A-frame cabin, every family member in their place, and a scene that looks—dare I say—peaceful.

​Life feels a lot like the back of this embroidery lately. It’s messy, tangled, and sometimes feels like a series of mistakes held together by a single thread. There are days where the "messy back" energy is all I can see.

​But then I look at the front. I look at the family

​The chaos of the everyday—the spilled coffee, the loud house, the endless to-do lists—is just the structural integrity for the beautiful picture they're building together. It turns out, you need those messy knots on the inside to make the family portrait hold firm on the outside.

​Messy life, beautiful family, worth every stitch. ❤️
Thank you Laurie for allowing me the ability to do this

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And this is why people don't ask me about hand embroidery 😆😆.
Commissions have kept me in my Regency-era bubble over the winter! 🥰🩷
Now I'm preparing for the spring market at Bartlett United Methodist, happening at the end of March. See you soon!